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Introduction to PsychologySeptember 11, 20171. Introduce yourself to your classmates. Tell them something that will help them remember you, your reasons for taking the Psychology course, your idea of what you hope to learn in this course, where you are from, where you go to school, or whatever other things are on your mind.2. Are you familiar with any Psychologists? What persons have you heard about who you think might be Psychologists? What can you say about why the Psychologists with whom you are familiar are well known?3. Geologists study rocks, volcanoes, ocean floors, etc. Historians study events that occurred in the past. Physicists study elementary particles like atoms, electrons and their movement in space. Economists study money and its movement through society. What is your idea at this point about what Psychologists study?4. What are some topics or ideas that you expect a student might hear about in a Psychology course? Which topics are you particularly interested in learning more about?5. Think of some important social problems that you care about -- poverty, racism, global warming, homelessness, .... Do you think there are psychological aspects to these issues? How might a psychologist be involved in studying and resolving such problems?6. If you had the opportunity to speak to the world's most knowledgeable Psychologist for an hour or so, what would you want to find out? What is a specific question you would ask?7. What would make a phenomenon (an event, or an activity, or an experience) psychological? What would be some examples of psychological phenomena? For example, is remembering to go to your Psychology exam a psychological phenomenon? Is a two-year old learning to count a psychological phenomenon? Is the melting of an ice cube a psychological phenomenon? the beating of one’s heart? …? ................
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