应用心理学专业英语大纲

应用心理学专业英语课程教学大纲

一、课程基本概述

课程名称：应用心理学专业英语

课程名称（英文）：Applied Psychology

课程编号：BL19243

课程总学时：36

课程学分：2

课程分类：专业课（必修）

开设学期：5

适用专业：应用心理学

先修课程:普通心理学，社会心理学，发展心理学等。

二、课程性质、目的和任务

应用心理学专业英语是高等院校应用心理学专业本科生所选修的一门专业双语课程。通过该课程的学习使学生不仅能够掌握本专业英语术语的表达方法，而且能学习权威专家最新的研究成果，从而提高专业英语水平的听、说、读、写的能力。

三、课程主要内容、重点及深度

Chapter 1 What is psychology

（一）教学内容

Section 1 Definitions：

●The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

Section 2 History：

●It comes from Philosophy&Biology&Physics

Section 3 Start time：

●It is 1879 when Wilhelm Wundt created the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig

Section 4 Develop：

●Structuralism(建构主义)

●Functionalism（机能主义）

●Psychoanalysis（精神分析）

●Behaviourism（行为主义）

●Cognitive psychology（认知主义）

●Humanistic approach（人本主义）

●Biological approach（生物学观点）

（二）教学重点

心理学定义，心理学发展历史。

（三）教学难点

心理学发展过程中的各学派代表观点、理论等。

（四）教学基本要求

掌握心理学发展简史及基本理论的英语表述。

Chapter 2 The psychoanalytic approach to psychology

（一）教学内容

Section 1 Origins and history

●Developed mainly by Sigmund Freud

●Influenced by the technology of the time

Section 2 Assumptions

Unconscious processes

Psychic determinism

Hydraulic drives

●Psychodynamic conflict

●Stages of development

Section 3 Methods of investigation

Free association

Latent content

Manifest content

Section 4 Areas of explanation

Personality development

M oral∕gender development

Aggression

Abnormality

Memory

Section 5 Practical application

Section6 Strengths

Section7 Weaknesses

(二)教学重点

精神分析学派发展过程

（三）教学难点

精神分析学派各种假设、理论

（四）教学基本要求

掌握精神分析学派主要代表理论的英语表述。

Chapter 3 The nature-nurture debate in psychology

教学内容

section 1 Approaches

●Roots of approach

●Causes of hebavior

●Methods employed

●Implications

●Critissms

section 2 Areas of explanation

●Perception

●Aggression

●Sex-role behavior

●Abnormality

●Language acquisition

Section 3 Interactionism

●Two influences form a continuum

●Interact so thoroughly with each other that they are virtually inseparable Section 4 The standing of the differenr approaches in psychology

●Biopsychology

●Psychoanalysis

●Cognitive psychology

●Humanism

●Behaviorism

（二）教学重点

什么是先天论，后天论，代表观点

（三）教学难点

先天论和后天伦的争辩

（四）教学基本要求

深入理解先天论和后天论理论观点；掌握相关专有词汇的英语表达

Chapter 4 Hypotheses

（一）教学内容

Section 1 How do psychologists make their predictions

●Hypotheses are precise,refutable statements.

●Psychologists should be bold,precise and refutable.

●Hypotheses can be experimental and correlational.

(二)教学重点

什么是假设，假设的特点

（三）教学难点

假设的种类（实验假设、相关假设）

（四）教学基本要求

掌握两种假设的英语表述

Chapter 5 Are you a “natural”

（一）教学内容

section 1 Introducton & Theoretical propositions

Source of human psychological differences:The Minnesota study of twins reared apart.

●Identical twins(Monozygotic twins)

Section 2 Method

●Participants

●Procedure

Section 3 Results

●The degree of similarities

●MZA MAT

Section 4 Disscussion and implications of findings

●Intellegence is primarily determined by genetic factors(70%genetic influence,30%environmental influence)

●The basic underlying assumption is that human characteristics are determined by some combination of genetic and environmental influences.

●The most intriguing implication that Bouchard and Lykken suggest is that it’s not the environment influencing people’s characteristics,but vice versa.

Section 5 Criticisms and related research

Section 6 Recent application

●Applied to the larger philosophical discussion of human cloning