Exercise 10. Make the sentences Passive

1) Psychology studies the human mind and behavior.

2) Psychologists observe, analyze and explain the negative behavior.

3) Specialists investigate human development from birth to death.

4) To investigate human mind psychologists apply new methods and approaches.

5) The practitioner changes the wrong patterns of thinking and behavior.

6) If a specialist understands a problem, he can take it under control.

*Exercise 11. Read about 15 mind blowing psychology facts. Which of them seem to be

interesting to you? Discuss them.

1. Blind people do dream like you, they do not dream as a blind.

2. You become more selfish if you eat in your room.

3. Men change their mind 2 – 3 times more than women.

4. Do you know why you are happy when you eat a choco­late? That’s because it con­tains phenyle­phy­lamine.

5. The time frame to feel roman­tic love is for about 1 year only, after that, it’s an attach­ment.

6. Children, well breastfed, tend to have an IQ level of approximately 10 points more by 3 years of age.

7. Women have slightly higher IQ than Men.

8. Chocolate and Shopping are both more addictive than drugs or steroids.

9. Most of the decisions we make are taken unconsciously.

10. A right-handed individual generally looks towards his left while thinking some­thing (events, images, sound) that happened actu­ally and downwards or towards the right while mak­ing some­thing.

11. You are more attracted to individuals having similar fea­tures.

12. Even if you are in a bad mood, you should smile. It will automatically bring improvement in your mood.

13. People, who lie, tend to dis­cretely cover their mouth or nose.

14. Our body is virtually paralyzed, when we are asleep.

15. If a person permanently loses the sense of smell, he will develop depression.

Завдання для самостійної роботи студентів

1) Перекладіть словосполучення на англійську мову і складіть з ними речення

Наука про психіку

Теоретичні і прикладні науки

Біологічні і соціальні науки

Збирати та аналізувати дані

Пояснити поведінку людини

Психічне і фізичне здоров’я

Спостереження і опис

2) Дайте відповідь на питання

What does the word “psychology” literally mean?

What does psychology study?

What sciences does psychology border on?

3) Поясніть термін

Психологія

THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY

Exercise 1. Topic Vocabulary

evidence [ˈɛvɪd(ə)ns] - доказ, свідчення

to speculate - розмірковувати

ability - здібність

conscious [ˈkɒnʃəs] - свідомий

awareness [əˈwɛːnəs] - розуміння, усвідомлення

pulse rate - частота пульсу

insomnia - безсоння

nightmare - страшний сон, кошмар

to be subject to - підлягати, залежати

empiricism [ɛmˈpɪrɪsɪz(ə)m] - емпіризм

nativism [ˈneɪtɪvɪz(ə)m] - нативізм

sensory - чуттєвий

skills - навички

innate [ɪˈneɪt] - вроджений

a field of study - галузь науки

Exercise 2. Pronounce correctly

Egypt [’i:dʒɪpt], Socrates [ˈsɒkrətiːz], Plato [ˈpleɪtoʊ], Aristotle [ˈærɪˌstɒtəl], Asia [ˈeɪʒə or ˈeɪʃə], Lin Xie [lin sai], Avicenna [ˌævɪˈsɛnə], Marco Marulić [ˈmɑrko maˈru:litʃ], Descartes [‘deɪˌkɑrt], Renaissance [rəˈneɪsəns (UK) ˌrenəˈsɑːns(US)], medieval [ˌmɛdɪˈiːv(ə)l], Wilhelm Wundt [ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈvu̇nt], Leipzig [ˈlaɪpsɪɡ],

Exercise 3. Translate into Ukrainian

a study of the mind and behaviour, an independent scientific discipline, to speculate on the nature of the mind, ancient thinkers, to investigate the limits of human knowledge, memory and conscious awareness, to draw a square with one hand, to carry out the first psychology experiment, to treat patients suffering from a variety of diseases, inner feelings, late in the 19th century, a science apart from biology and philosophy, "father of experimental psychology”, psychological research, an independent field of study

Exercise 4. Translate the sentences. Explain the use of the underlined verbs in the Active

And Passive Voice.

1) Educational psychologists apply theories of human development to understand individual learning styles.

2) Psychologists working in the field of education are focused on better understanding how people absorb and retain new information.

3) Social psychology studies how humans think about each other and how they relate to each other.

4) Educational psychology is often included in teacher education programs in places such as North America, Australia, and New Zealand.

5) Today mental testing is used for people of all ages in Western societies.

Grammar. Past Simple

Many scientists of the 20th century investigatedmental conditions. Avicenna wrote* ‘The Canon of Medicine’ where he describedmelancholia.
  Did many scientists of the 20th century investigate mental conditions? Did Avicenna write ‘The Canon of Medicine’?   Who investigated mental conditions? Who wrote ‘The Canon of Medicine’?   What did many scientists of the 20th century investigate? What didAvicenna write?
Avicenna did not (didn’t) write ‘Passions of the Soul’.

*Неправильні дієслова у стверджувальних реченнях стоять у другій формі (форма минулого часу): take → took, give → gave, go → went

Exercise 5. Translate the text. What information seems the most interesting to you?

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