COURSE:           ENGLISH LANGUAGE I

PROGRAM:        BUSINESS PSYCHOLOGY 1^st YEAR

 

 

CONVERSATION TOPICS

 

 

1.     Discuss the historical development of psychology as a science and attempts at defining it.

2.     What is social psychology? What is its field of study? What are its goals?

3.     Outline the academic background of a psychologist, a psychiatrist, and a psychoanalyst.

4.     Explain the meanings of terms ‘nature’ and ‘nurture’.

5.     Discuss the two schools of thought involved in the nature-nurture debate in child development.

6.     Contrast the ideas put forward by Watson with those proposed by Gesell.

7.     Outline the attitude of contemporary psychology towards the nature-nurture debate.