Goals: Students will 1. Identify the goals of psychology. 2. Explain how psychology is a science. 3. Beginning planning experiments. 4. Understand the kinds of work psychologists do.

 Unit One Building your Portfolio – page 50 ◦ Assignment due September 9, 2015 ◦ Go over rubric

 Respond to the following statement: ◦ Everyone is a psychologist because psychology is just common sense. ◦ Is this statement true or is psychology based in science?

 Write a short essay in your journals answering the following questions: ◦ What is psychology? ◦ What types of work do psychologists do? ◦ What types of things do psychologists study? ◦ Why is it important to study psychology? Share your answers.

 Using visuals ◦ Examine the photo on page 2 and describe what you see. ◦ Brainstorm a list of questions that psychologists might have about the scene and about the person shown. ◦ Compare the questions the class asked to the questions on page three.

 Crash Course – Intro to Psychology ◦

 Read Section1of Chapter 1  What do you hope to gain from studying psychology?

 Read Section 2 of Chapter One ◦ Imagine that you are psychologist specializing in one of the areas discussed in Section 2. Write a diary entry describing a typical day at work without disclosing which type of psychologist you are. ◦ You will read your entries to the class and they will try and determine in which area you specialize.