Summer Assignment 3: Vocabulary Flash Cards

This year you will be learning the language of psychology. As with learning any language, one must learn the meaning of words, then learn how to use them correctly, but the key to true learning is PRACTICE. Get started on learning some vocab that you'll need in the first week of school. I will check this assignment on the second day of class. I ONLY ACCEPT HAND-WRITTEN FLASHCARDS.

Materials:
1. You will need a package of 3"x5" index cards (We use these all year, so feel free to buy them in bulk if you can find them on sale. Also, if you cannot purchase cards, you may cut paper into 3x5 pieces to make flash cards.)
2. Blue or Black Pen
3. Internet access

Instructions:

1. On the front (blank side) of each card, copy the terms and names listed below. There should be only one term per card. (You are making flashcards to study from!)

2. Right click here. and open this link in a new tab. Click on "Psychology Timeline" in blue in the center of the page. A simulation will open for you to read through that includes the first 29 of the terms in the word list. Read carefully!
Terms 30 to 40 can be found on APA's website here.

2. On the back (lined side) of each card, you use the above links to:
a. DEFINE/IDENTIFY the term or person.
b. EXPLAIN the term in your own words or write any IMPORTANT DETAILS about the term/person. Don't worry about complete sentences. (Leave room to add class notes)
c. (optional) Write related EXAMPLES or LINKS to real life, TV, or movies that you can think of.



Word List:
From "Psychology's Timeline"
1. psychology
2. Plato
3. Aristotle
4. nativist
5. empiricist
6. Rene Descartes
7. dualism
8. John Locke
9. Herman von Helmholtz
10. Charles Darwin
11. Wilhelm Wundt
12. G. Stanley Hall
13. APA (American Psychological Association)
14. introspection
15. Edward Tichener
16. William James
17. Hermann Ebbinghause
18. Mary Whiton Calkins
19. Sigmund Freud
20. Edwin Thorndike
21. Margaret Washburn
22. Ivan Pavlov
23. John Watson
24. behaviorism
25. B.F.Skinner
26. Jean Piaget
27. Noam Chomsky
28. Abraham Maslow
29. Carl Rogers
from APA website:
30. Clinical Psychologists
31. Cognitive Psychologists
32. Counseling Psychologists
33. Developmental Psychologists
34. Educational Psychologists
35. Engineering Psychologists
36. Evolutionary Psychologists
37. Experimental Psychologists
38. Forensic Psychologists
39. Health Psychologists
40. Industrial/Organizational Psychologists
41. Neuropsychologists
42. Rehabilitation Psychologists
43. Social Psychologists
44. School Psychologists
45. Sports Psychologists

While you're online, go to www.ikeepbookmarks.com/Lara_Herrera to view all of the interesting websites I've found over the years. Feel free to poke around; any of the folders that begin with the word "Psych" contain interesting links relevant to this class.