Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Day 2- What is Psychology and more on perspectives

We started class today with a discussion on what it means for an athlete to 'choke.' From there we took some notes while reading aloud a selection from the textbook below is what came from that.


Captured from the chalkboard splash notes:

Psychology is...
  •  Empirical 
  • Scientific
  • complex
  •  a way to understand behavior
  • experimentation
Psychology is not...
  • Pop psych
  • Anecdotal
  • Pseudoscience
  • just common sense
  • self-help books
  • astrology
We also talked about what a 'falsifiable' prediction is, and how that having nonfalsifiable ideas lead to non scientific study.


HOMEWORK: Write me a letter that responds to the following prompts:

1- What is your plan of action for doing well in Psychology this year?
2- Would you like to be challenged with more work to possible take the AP exam?
3- Explain what your expectations for this course are.

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