Exercise 1. Answer the questions

Answer the questions:

1. What does psychology study?

2. What is psychology concerned with?

3. How does one become a professional psychologist?

4. What is a common reaction when you say you are a psychologist?

5. Why does everyone have a theory about behavior?

6. What are some of the scientific methods in psychology?

7. Why do we need scientific methods in psychology?

8. How can psychologists help people on a date, for example?

EXERCISE 2

Translate the sentences:

1. Psychology studies people's behavior: actions, reactions, interact­ions.

2. I am very concerned with my English. I read English books every day.

3. Writers and psychologists are concerned with people's feelings and motivations.

4. Politicians are concerned with major problems in the society.

5. I have strong knowledge of mathematics and biology.

6. My mother is an amateur psychologist. She likes to talk about people's actions and motivations.

7. Psychology can improve people's quality of life.

8. To make their findings reliable scientists use observing, measuring and observations.

9. Psychologists collect reliable evidence about people's behavior.

EXERCISE 3

Make your own sentences with following words and word-combinations:

a. to act

b. to be concerned with

c. thoughts and feelings

d. in a sense

e. to solve problems

f. knowledge

g. put knowledge to good use

h. common reactions

i. measuring

j. to collect evidence

k. to explain people's behavior

1. to use understanding

m. parental divorce

n. eyewitness testimony

o. to have a date

p. depression

EXERCISE 4

Translate into English.

Мы все — психологи-любители. Мы наблюдаем, как ведут себя люди. Но этого недостаточно, чтобы помогать людям. Психологическое об­разование дает знания, помогает стать профессионалами. Психологи изучают поведение людей. Для этого они используют разные научные методы: наблюдение, тестирование, эксперименты. Ученые находят достоверные доказательства и пишут новые теории. Психологические теории помогают ответить на практические вопросы.

II. DISCUSSION

Share your view with your group mates

1. Scientific methods used in psychology.

2. What practical problems are psychologists concerned with.

3. Which psychological problems are you interested in? Why?

Unit III. Different Approaches to Psychology

Text 1 Basic approaches to Psychology.