Exercise 1

Questions to the text:

1. Where does the word psychology come from?

2. How did Atkinson define psychology?

3. What year is considered to be the start of psychology?

4. Who created the first psychology laboratory?

5. Who is considered to be the "founding father" of psychology in the USA?

6. What was the first approach in psychology?

7. What is the object of investigation from the structuralist point of view?

8. Who developed the functional approach in psychology?

9. What are the functions of brain from the functional point of view?

10. What approaches appeared at the turn of the 19th century?

11. What is the proper object of investigation in psychoanalysis?

12. What should psychology investigate from the behaviorist point of view?

13. What did cognitivist and humanistic psychologists criticize in behaviorism?

14. What does cognitive psychology aim to investigate?

15. What did the humanistic psychologists argue for?

16. What did the biological approach contribute to the study of human behavior?

EXERCISE 2

Translate the following sentences into Russian.

1. In 1879 Wilhelm Wundt created the first psychology laboratory.

2. In 1875 William James started teaching a course on the relationship between physiology and psychology.

3. Atkinson defined psychology as the study of behavior and mental pro­cesses.

4. Many scientists disagree about the definition of psychology.

5. Structuralism was the first approach in psychology.

6. Functionalists investigated functions of thoughts and behavior.

7. Psychoanalysis was developed by Sigmund Freud in Austria. Psycho­analysis aimed to study the unconscious mind.

8. Behaviorists investigated observable behavior.

9. Cognitive psychologists are interested in information processing.

10. Humanistic psychologists focus on the conscious experience and aims in life.

11. The biological approach gives evolutionary and genetic explanation for human behaviour.

JOKES

Read and translate the following jokes. What do these jokes imply?

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Psychology is actually biology. Biology is actually chemistry. Chemistry is actually physics. And physics is actually math.

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Two psychologists meet at their twentieth college reunion (встреча выпускников). One of them looks like he just graduated, while the other psychologist looks old, worried and stressed. The older looking psychol­ogist asks the other, "What's your secret? Listening to other people's problems every day, all day long, for years has made an old man of me." The younger looking psychologists replies, "Who listens?"