This document outlines the agenda for an introductory psychology class, including: - Welcoming students and reviewing the course orientation assignment - Discussing improving problem solving, decision making, and academic performance by applying psychological principles - Covering the early history of psychology, including structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and humanism - Preparing students for upcoming topics on research methods and the APA style guide The instructor emphasizes applying psychology to improve learning and prepares students to be successful through effective study strategies and understanding the course expectations and upcoming assignments.

1. General
Psychology
PSY101
Introduction to Psychology
Improving Academic
Performance & Problem Solving
portions of Chapter 1 and Chapter 8

2. Honors
General
Psychology
PSY101H
Introduction to Psychology
Improving Academic
Performance & Problem Solving
portions of Chapter 1 and Chapter 8

3. IF YOU HAVE A WAITLIST OR ADD SLIP THAT
NEEDS TO BE SIGNED PLEASE SEE ME
AFTER CLASS TODAY!

4. Agenda 2x
• Welcome to General Psychology
• Instructor: Leslie Buck, M.Ed. (Ph.D. ABD)
• Intros
• Psychology: What/Why
• Review Course Orientation Assignment due at
START of next class
• Chapter 1
• Applying Psychology to you: Improving Academic
Performance & Developing Critical Thinking Skills

5. Agenda HONORS
• Welcome to Honors General Psychology
• Instructor: Leslie Buck, M.Ed. (Ph.D. ABD)
• Intros
• Psychology: What/Why
• Review Course Orientation Assignment due at
START of next class
• Begin Chapter 1
• Applying Psychology to you: Improving Academic
Performance & Developing Critical Thinking Skills

6. Google Form Introduction
• https://goo.gl/forms/RUciurHlb9FmQU2r2

7. Index Card Introduction
• On the lined side
• Print your last name and preferred first name (what you want to be called
and will put on your assignments) at the top of the index card.
• Personal Pronoun (he, she, they)
• Educational goal/major/degree level and where planning to transfer
• Current g.p.a. (if this is your first semester then put high school g.p.a. and add ‘HS’ after it)
• One fun fact about you that will help me remember you
• List anything personal that may impact this course. For example,
• If you are dually enrolled in high school and college credit, name of your
high school.
• Student Athlete or other student organization
• Accommodations for disability
• ESL

8. Instructor
• Leslie Buck, M.Ed. (Ph.D. ABD)
• Professor of Psychology
• Phone: (636) 481-3308 in Hillsboro
• or (636) 789-1414
• Email: LBUCK@Jeffco.edu

9. Index Card Introduction
• On the blank side
• Write your definition of psychology.
• List one thing you don’t understand about human
behavior.
• Why do people …
• Why do I ...

10. Psychology is …
• Scientific study of human and animal behavior
• Profession that applies the science of
psychology to practical problems

11. • Introduction to MyJeffco and Blackboard course
website
• Course Orientation Assignment

12. Learning Objectives
LEARNING GUIDE
8.2 PROBLEM SOLVING: IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS
Identify common barriers to effective problem solving and review the
effectiveness of problem-solving strategies.
8.3 DECISION MAKING: CHOICES AND CHANCES
Discuss research on decisions about preferences to include the dual-processing
theory and Simon’s theory of bounded rationality. Understand how heuristics
contribute to the tendency to make errors such as ignoring base rates and the
conjunction fallacy.
1.5 IMPROVING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
Discuss strategies for promoting adequate study, improving reading
comprehension, and getting more out of lectures.
1.6 DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Discuss the use of critical thinking skills to enhance learning

13. Improving Problem Solving
and Decision Making
• All students have a problem
• how to successfully complete this class
• And will need to make a million and one
decisions throughout the semester to solve this
problem

14. nprEd
You Probably Believe Some Learning
Myths: Take Our Quiz To Find Out
• https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/03/22/52
0843457/you-probably-believe-some-learning-
myths-take-our-quiz-to-find-out

15. Applying Psychology to
students
• In pairs, write down the ideal plan for improving
academic performance?
• Where, When, What, & How to study?
• See Chapter 1 pg. 23-25 for hints

16. Learning Objectives
LEARNING GUIDE
8.2 PROBLEM SOLVING: IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS
Identify common barriers to effective problem solving and review the
effectiveness of problem-solving strategies.
8.3 DECISION MAKING: CHOICES AND CHANCES
Discuss research on decisions about preferences to include the dual-processing
theory and Simon’s theory of bounded rationality. Understand how heuristics
contribute to the tendency to make errors such as ignoring base rates and the
conjunction fallacy.
1.5 IMPROVING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
Discuss strategies for promoting adequate study, improving reading
comprehension, and getting more out of lectures.
1.6 DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Discuss the use of critical thinking skills to enhance learning

17. End of first class 2x
• Don’t forget to complete Orientation
Assignment and contact me if you have
questions or need help

19. 2x
Are you prepared to be
successful in this class?
• Get out the following items until I have checked them:
• Syllabus - PRINTED
• Course Calendar - PRINTED
• Student Handbook - digital on device you brought to class or print (just the required
pages)
• Personal planner WITH all assignments in it – paper or digital in phone you brought to
class
• Textbook – hard copy or digital on device you bring to class
• Improving Academic Performance & Problem Solving Learning Guide WITH notes
complete – PRINT or digital on computer you brought to class
• The Evolution of Psychology Learning Guide WITH notes complete for 1.1 and 1.2
only - PRINT or digital on computer you brought to class
• If you are missing one of the items in bold please go to the nearest
computer lab and get it RIGHT NOW then return to class to
complete the first quiz.
• Questions about these items?

20. Agenda 2x
• Course Orientation Assignment and Course
Questions
• Orientation Quiz
• Classroom Safety
• Applying Psychology to Improve Problem Solving,
Decision Making & Academic Performance
• 1.5 - Improving academic performance
• 1.6 - Developing critical thinking skills
• 8.2 - Problem solving
• 8.3 - Decision making
• The Evolution of Psychology
• 1.1 - Psychology’s early history
• 1.2 - Psychology’s modern history

21. Orientation Quiz 2x
• Available in Blackboard through the end of the
day (11:59 pm) Monday, January 22

22. PSY101H
Are you prepared to be
successful in this class?
• Get out the following items:
• Syllabus - PRINTED
• Course Calendar - PRINTED
• Student Handbook - digital on device you brought to class or print (just the required
pages)
• Personal planner WITH all assignments in it – paper or digital in phone you brought to
class
• Textbook – hard copy or digital on device you bring to class
• Improving Academic Performance & Problem Solving Learning Guide WITH notes
complete – PRINT or digital on computer you brought to class
• The Evolution of Psychology Learning Guide WITH notes complete for 1.1 and 1.2
only - PRINT or digital on computer you brought to class
• If you are missing one of the items in bold please get it RIGHT
NOW to complete the quiz
• Questions about these items?

23. Agenda HONORS
• Course Orientation Assignment and Course
Questions
• Safety
• Course Planning and Applying Psychology to
Improve Problem Solving, Decision Making &
Academic Performance
• 1.5 - Improving academic performance
• 1.6 - Developing critical thinking skills
• 8.2 - Problem solving
• 8.3 - Decision making

24. Safety
• Viking Text Messaging
• Run – Hide – Fight in our classroom
• http://www.jeffco.edu/welcome/general-
information/campus-police-department/safety-
videos#.V7SAQqK22VM

25. Improving Problem Solving
and Decision Making
• All students have a problem
• how to successfully complete this class
• And will need to make a million and one decisions
throughout the semester to solve this problem
In pairs,
• review your notes over textbook 8.2 & 8.3
• Discuss how the barriers to problem solving and
different types of decision making apply to the
shared problem of how to successfully complete
this class

26. Decision Making(type of Problem Solving)
• Strive for elaborate/systematic, thoughtful,
effortful, rational but often simple/automatic
• Dual-processing theory states we:
• often use simple, quick, effortless/automatic
heuristics which can be biased and irrational but
sometimes effective
• Simon’s theory of bounded rationality = simple strategies
using limited information/options
• BUT elaborate takes over for big, important, or
complex decisions or when simple was not effective

27. Improving Problem Solving
and Decision Making
• All students have a problem
• how to successfully complete this class
• And will need to make a million and one
decisions throughout the semester to solve this
problem

28. “Students do not know how to study
well because they have poor
conceptions about how we learn”
Tuckman, B. W., & Kennedy, G. J. (2011). Teaching learning strategies to increase success of first-
term college students. The Journal of Experimental Education, 79(4), 478-504.
doi:10.1080/00220973.2010.512318
http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2017/8/16-1

29. Applying Psychology to
students
• Given what you now know about the psychological
scientific research regarding problem solving,
decision making, and academic success
• In pairs, write down/update the ideal plan for
improving academic performance?
• Where, When, What, & How to study?

30. Improving Academic Performance
• Where:
• Find a place to study where you can concentrate
• Distraction-free
• When:
• Set up a schedule for studying
• Before and after class
• Spread out (not crammed)

31. Improving Academic Performance
• What & How to study:
• Book
• Read actively with learning objectives as guide
• ‘turn by turn’ directions
• Read ahead (before we discuss in class)
• Use textbook tools
• Notes
• Focus full attention in class (and show up)
• Organized outline in own words with examples
• Ask questions during class to ensure full understanding
• Flashcards can help learn terminology (important in all
sciences)

32. Improving Academic Performance
• What & How to study:
• Self Assessments – taking quizzes
improves memory
• With others (real or imaginary)
• Reward your studying
• http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/which-study-strategies-make-the-grade.html

33. STOP!
• Before we go on, how are your notes?
• Compare notes with a partner and take a
moment to ‘steal’ the good stuff from his/hers

34. Questions regarding
Learning Objectives
LEARNING GUIDE
8.2 PROBLEM SOLVING: IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS
Identify common barriers to effective problem solving and review the
effectiveness of problem-solving strategies.
8.3 DECISION MAKING: CHOICES AND CHANCES
Discuss research on decisions about preferences to include the dual-processing
theory and Simon’s theory of bounded rationality. Understand how heuristics
contribute to the tendency to make errors such as ignoring base rates and the
conjunction fallacy.
1.5 IMPROVING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
Discuss strategies for promoting adequate study, improving reading
comprehension, and getting more out of lectures.
1.6 DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Discuss the use of critical thinking skills to enhance learning

35. General
Psychology
PSY101
The Evolution of
Psychology
Chapter 1

36. Historical Perspectives of
Psychology
•Structuralism
•Functionalism
•Psychoanalytic
•Behaviorism
•Humanism
and Positive
•Cognitive
•Biological and
Evolutionary
•Cultural
8 teams – 10 minutes (Learning Guide table)
Who &
When
Why
What &
How

37. Battle for the Heart and Mind
of Psychology
• Individually or in teams you are assigned one of the historical
perspectives in psychology.
• Biological and Evolutionary and Humanism and Positive have two
separate but related perspectives that overlap. You should complete the
worksheet and make distinctions between the two perspectives where
they exist and also note where they are similar.
• Complete the worksheet to gather the background on the
perspective using your notes/book. Then:
• define in your own words in a single sentence what the assigned
perspective said psychology should study
• create a "school" motto/slogan for your assigned perspective
• a motto/slogan is a short phrase that communicates the essential features of the
perspective. A motto/slogan can be chanted at the school rally and works well on t-
shirts, bumper stickers, etc to promote the school.
• Create/find a "school" logo for your assigned perspective
• a logo is an image that communicates the essential features of the
perspective. The logo can be hand drawn or a digital image

39. Agenda 2x
• Today
• Finish Course Orientation
Assignment
• Wrapping up Applying
Psychology to Improve
Problem Solving, Decision
Making & Academic
Performance
• Ready to Learn
• The Evolution of
Psychology
• 1.1 - Psychology’s early
history
• 1.2 - Psychology’s modern
history
• Ch. 1 in class quiz
• Optional in-class
orientation quiz
• Preparing for next week
• Monday, Jan 28
• The Evolution of
Psychology
• Research Enterprise in
Psychology & Statistical
Methods
• APA Style Quiz due by
end of day (11:59 pm)
• Wednesday, Jan 30
• Research Enterprise in
Psychology & Statistical
Methods
• APA Style Practice
Exercise due by end of
day (11:59 pm)

40. Agenda HONORS
• Today
• Finish Course Orientation
Assignment
• Safety for PSY101H-31
• Wrapping up Applying
Psychology to Improve
Problem Solving, Decision
Making & Academic
Performance
• Ready to Learn
• Service Learning Project
topic selection
• The Evolution of
Psychology
• 1.1 - Psychology’s early
history
• 1.2 - Psychology’s modern
history
• Preparing for next week
• Monday, Jan 28
• The Evolution of
Psychology
• Research Enterprise in
Psychology & Statistical
Methods
• APA Style Quiz due by
end of day (11:59 pm)
• Wednesday, Jan 30
• Research Enterprise in
Psychology & Statistical
Methods
• APA Style Practice
Exercise due by end of
day (11:59 pm)

41. “Students do not know how to study
well because they have poor
conceptions about how we learn”
Tuckman, B. W., & Kennedy, G. J. (2011). Teaching learning strategies to increase success of first-
term college students. The Journal of Experimental Education, 79(4), 478-504.
doi:10.1080/00220973.2010.512318
http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2017/8/16-1

42. Questions regarding
Learning Objectives
LEARNING GUIDE
8.2 PROBLEM SOLVING: IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS
Identify common barriers to effective problem solving and review the
effectiveness of problem-solving strategies.
8.3 DECISION MAKING: CHOICES AND CHANCES
Discuss research on decisions about preferences to include the dual-processing
theory and Simon’s theory of bounded rationality. Understand how heuristics
contribute to the tendency to make errors such as ignoring base rates and the
conjunction fallacy.
1.5 IMPROVING ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
Discuss strategies for promoting adequate study, improving reading
comprehension, and getting more out of lectures.
1.6 DEVELOPING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Discuss the use of critical thinking skills to enhance learning

43. HONORS Service Learning
Project Planning
• Step 1: Identify & Meet with Stakeholders
• Assess both stakeholder needs and group skill/expertise
• Step 2: Set & Prioritize Goals
• What benefits for stakeholders do you hope to accomplish
• What stakeholder needs do you hope to address
• Step 3: Define Deliverables
• What will you produce to meet the goals
• Create the Project Schedule and assign
roles/responsibilities/tasks
• All will need to complete research on topic
• Step 4: COMMUNICATE, Bring project together, Identify issues
and refine along the way
• Step 5: Present the Project to Stakeholders
• Step 6: Analyze project
• All will complete personal reflection

44. General
Psychology
PSY101
The Evolution of
Psychology
Chapter 1

45. Learning Objectives
1.1 PSYCHOLOGY’S EARLY HISTORY
Summarize Wundt's accomplishments and contributions to psychology.
Compare and contrast the chief tenets and methods of structuralism and
functionalism.
Articulate Freud's Psychoanalytic theory principal ideas and why they inspired
controversy.
Trace the development of behaviorism and assess Watson’s impact on the evolution
of psychology.
Summarize Skinner's key insights into human behavior and why they were
controversial.
Explain the emergence of humanism and its underlying philosophy.
1.2 PSYCHOLOGY’S MODERN HISTORY
Discuss how historical events contributed to the emergence of psychology as a
profession.
Describe how trends in cognition and biological perspectives on human behavior, that
emerged in the 1950s-1960s, represented a return to psychology's intellectual roots.
Explain why psychology has shown an increased interest in cultural variables in
recent decades.
Discuss the emergence and basic ideas of evolutionary psychology.
Explain the emergence and basic ideas of positive psychology.

46. How old is Psychology?
• “Why did they do that?” – as old as time
• Prior to 1879
• Philosophy and Physiology

47. From Speculation to Science:
How Psychology Developed
• Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
University of Leipzig, Germany
• Founded psychology as independent
discipline to use science to study
consciousness
• Established first psychology
laboratory in 1879
• Psychology was born

48. Figure 1.1 Early Research Laboratories in North America 1893
Psychology grows rapidly

49. How to scientifically study
psychology?
• Science develops theories & laws to explain
natural phenomenon based on observations,
but where should psychology begin?
• What to focus on?
• How to study ‘behavior’?

50. Historical Perspectives of
Psychology
•Structuralism
•Functionalism
•Psychoanalytic
•Behaviorism
•Humanism
and Positive
•Cognitive
•Biological and
Evolutionary
•Cultural
8 teams – 10 minutes (Learning Guide table)
Who &
When
Why
What &
How

51. Battle for the Heart and Mind
of Psychology
• Individually or in teams you are assigned one of the historical
perspectives in psychology.
• Biological and Evolutionary and Humanism and Positive have two
separate but related perspectives that overlap. You should complete the
worksheet and make distinctions between the two perspectives where
they exist and also note where they are similar.
• Complete the worksheet to gather the background on the
perspective using your notes/book. Then:
• define in your own words in a single sentence what the assigned
perspective said psychology should study
• create a "school" motto/slogan for your assigned perspective
• a motto/slogan is a short phrase that communicates the essential features of the
perspective. A motto/slogan can be chanted at the school rally and works well on t-
shirts, bumper stickers, etc to promote the school.
• Create/find a "school" logo for your assigned perspective
• a logo is an image that communicates the essential features of the
perspective. The logo can be hand drawn or a digital image

52. Historical Perspectives of
Psychology
•Structuralism
•Functionalism
•Psychoanalytic
•Behaviorism
•Humanism
and Positive
•Cognitive
•Biological and
Evolutionary
•Cultural
8 teams – 10 minutes (Learning Guide table)
Who &
When
Why
What &
How
Each team shares,
-who & what (sentence)
-motto/slogan
-logo

53. Historical Perspectives of
Psychology
•Structuralism
•Functionalism
•Psychoanalytic
•Behaviorism
•Humanism
and Positive
•Cognitive
•Biological and
Evolutionary
•Cultural
Who &
When
Why
What &
How

54. 2x Chapter 1 Quiz
• For each of the historical perspectives on
psychology, finish the following sentence to
state what each said the focus of psychology
should be.
• ________________ perspective states that
the focus of psychology should be . . .

56. Agenda 2x
• Announcements
• Continue notes/reading for next class - Research Enterprise in
Psychology & Statistical Methods
• APA Style Quiz due by end of day (11:59 pm) TODAY
• APA Style Practice Exercise due by end of day (11:59 pm)
Wednesday, Jan 30
• Exam 1 - Wednesday, Feb 6
• Review Chapter 1 Quiz and the Early and Modern History of
Psychology
• Finish The Evolution of Psychology
• Ch. 1 in class quiz re-do
• Begin Research Enterprise in Psychology & Statistical Methods

57. Historical Perspectives of
Psychology
•Structuralism
•Functionalism
•Psychoanalytic
•Behaviorism
•Humanism
and Positive
•Cognitive
•Biological and
Evolutionary
•Cultural
Who &
When
Why
What &
How

58. Review quiz answers

59. ________________ perspective states that
the focus of psychology should be . . .
• Structuralism
• to scrutinize basic elements (5 senses) that make up consciousness
through introspection
• Functionalism
• to systematically use tests to examine the purpose (function) of
consciousness
• Psychoanalytic
• to examine unconscious conflicts about basic urges like ‘sex’ and/or
aggression that stem from childhood experiences and drive behavior
• Behaviorism
• the scientific study of ONLY observable environmental factors that
impact observable behaviors
• Humanism
• to focus on unique qualities of humans (NOT animals) like free will
and personal growth that drive individual behavior

60. ________________ perspective states that
the focus of psychology should be . . .
• Cognitive
• the scientific study of internal mental events (thoughts, memory,
decisions, learning, etc.) that impact individual behavior
• Biological
• the scientific investigation of how physiological processes (mainly in
nervous, endocrine, & immune systems) are related to individual
behavior (actions, thoughts, emotions)
• Cultural
• the scientific study of group factors related to culture (ethnicity,
region, gender, religion, etc.) that impact individual behavior
• Evolutionary
• to explore inheritance of behavioral traits due to natural selection of
behaviors that increased survival and reproductive success for
ancestors in order to understand behavior today
• Positive
• the scientific study of creative, fulfilling, and functional (positive)
human experiences, NOT broken

61. Quiz
• A = 4.5-5
• B = 4-4.25
• C = 3.5-3.75
• D = 3-3.25
• F = <3 Consider this your early warning that
what you are currently doing is NOT
working and change is needed
quickly before higher stakes
assessment like first exam.
See me for help and/or get a tutor.

62. 2x Chapter 1 Quiz
• For each of the historical perspectives on
psychology, finish the following sentence to
state what each said the focus of psychology
should be.
• ________________ perspective states that
the focus of psychology should be . . .

63. Agenda HONORS
• Announcements
• Continue notes/reading for next class - Research Enterprise in
Psychology & Statistical Methods
• Service Learning Project
• APA Style Quiz due by end of day (11:59 pm) TODAY
• APA Style Practice Exercise due by end of day (11:59 pm)
Wednesday, Jan 30
• Two research studies due Feb 4
• Exam 1 - Wednesday, Feb 6
• Review Early and Modern History of Psychology
• Finish The Evolution of Psychology
• Begin Research Enterprise in Psychology & Statistical Methods

64. Historical Perspectives of
Psychology
•Structuralism
•Functionalism
•Psychoanalytic
•Behaviorism
•Humanism
and Positive
•Cognitive
•Biological and
Evolutionary
•Cultural
Who &
When
Why
What &
How

65. Learning Objectives
1.4 UNIFYING THEMES
Understand the three unifying themes of psychology as a field
of study; Empiricism, Theory, Sociohistorical.
Understand the four unifying themes of psychology's subject
matter; Multifactorial causation, Culture, Heredity and
Environment, Subjective.

66. A single unifying theory of
psychology?
• At this point in development of psychology,
• no single unifying theory
www.holoscience.com

67. Studying Psychology:
Seven Unifying Themes
• Psychology as field of study:
• Empirical
• Theoretically diverse
• Evolves in sociohistorical context
• Behavior:
• Determined by multiple causes (multifactorial)
• Shaped by cultural heritage
• Influenced jointly by heredity and environment
• People’s experience highly subjective

68. Multifactorial BioPsychoSocial
Model of Human Behavior
Biological
• Genetics
• Anatomy
• Physiology
Psychological
• Behaviors
• Thoughts
• Memories
• Emotions
Social-
Environmental
• Relationships
• Social Interactions
• Culture and Society
• Material Environment

69. Learning Objectives
1.2 PSYCHOLOGY’S MODERN HISTORY
Discuss how historical events contributed to the emergence of
psychology as a profession.
1.3 PSYCHOLOGY TODAY
Articulate the complete current definition of psychology.
Discuss the growth of psychology today and identify the most
common work settings for psychologists.
Describe the major research areas in psychology.
Describe the professional specialties in applied psychology as
well as specialties in other fields.

70. Psychology Today
• Research
• Scientific study of Biological, Psychological
(thoughts, emotions, actions), and
Social/Environmental factors that influence human
and animal behavior
AND
• Application
• Profession that applies science of psychology to
practical problems

71. Psychology Comes of Age
as a Profession
•World War II (1941-1945)
• Need for Applied Psychology
• Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• Screen military recruits
• Clinical Psychology
• Treat soldiers
• National Mental Health Act (1946)
• National Institute of Mental Health
(1949)
• Funding for science and practice

72. Psychology Today
• Research
• Scientific study of Biological, Psychological
(thoughts, emotions, actions), and
Social/Environmental factors that influence human
and animal behavior
AND
• Application
• Profession that applies science of psychology to
practical problems

73. Number of Bachelor’s Degrees Awarded
0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 120,000
Business Administration and Management
Psychology
English and Literature
Biology
Nursing
Elementary Education
Accounting
Political Science
Communication and Speech
Marketing
History
Sociology
Second most popular college major

74. http://www2.apa.org/monitor/2016/06/datapoint.aspx

75. http://www.apamonitor-digital.org/apamonitor/201709/MobilePagedReplica.action?pm=2&folio=20#pg23

76. Psychology Today:
A Thriving Science and Profession
• Research:
• Developmental
• Social
• Educational
• Health
• Physiological
• Experimental
• Cognitive
• Psychometrics
• Personality
• Applied Psychology:

77. 10.6%
Health
13.7%
Educational
10.3%
Other
16.1%
Social
9.5%
Physiological
18.3%
Developmental
3.0%
Personality
3.8%
Psychometrics
6.7%
Cognitive
8.2%
Experimental
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Major research areas in
contemporary psychology

78. Psychology Today:
A Thriving Science and Profession
• Research:
• Developmental
• Social
• Educational
• Health
• Physiological
• Experimental
• Cognitive
• Psychometrics
• Personality
• Applied Psychology:
• Clinical & Counseling
• School
• Industrial/Organizational
• Psychiatry
• Medical specialty

79. 14.7%
Counseling
6.1%
Industrial/organizational
5.2%
School
2.0%
Other
72.1%
Clinical
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Principal professional specialties in
contemporary psychology

80. Psychology Organizations
• American Psychological Association (APA)
• Association for Psychological Science (APS)
• Numerous related organizations
(see Blackboard for list with links to websites)
• Most have free or low cost student
memberships

81. Should now have organized
notes in your own words on
The Evolution of Psychology – Chapter 1
1.1 PSYCHOLOGY’S EARLY HISTORY
1.2 PSYCHOLOGY’S MODERN HISTORY
1.4 UNIFYING THEMES
1.3 PSYCHOLOGY TODAY