The Catholic High School of Baltimore Summer Reading List
Teacher’s Name: Carolyn Marinari
School Year: 2011-2012______Grade Level: 11 and 12
Course No.: 255 Course Name: AP Psychology
Academic Level (Honors/AP/CP1/CP2/CPA): AP
Reading: Understanding Psychology, Robert S. Feldman (required course textbook)
Assignment 1: Read pp. xxxiv-iii and read and take notes on Chapter 1 p.3-29. This chapter covers basic information and the history of psychology. The material is pretty self-explanatory. Note any questions you have about the material. We will spend a day or two on this material which will be followed by a chapter test during the first week of school. Textbooks can be picked up from Mrs. Marinari before the end of school or in the main office during the summer.
Assignment 2: Create a set of note cards on the top psychologists listed below. This will be due the Tuesday after Labor Day weekend. Cards should be 3x5 format. The top card should list your name in the upper left-hand corner and Top Psychologists in the center. Each of the psychologist cards should be numbered 1-50. The cards should be formatted as follows:
FRONT OF CARD # card Person's full name
BACK OF CARD Years alive (in upper right) Field: This should indicate what area of psychology the psychologist was most interested in. Contributions: This should detail (succinctly) what the major contributions/ideas/studies of the psychologist. Source: Source information of where you found your information *Avoid wikipedia *Must be handwritten and in pen *Feel free to color-code, your brain likes it-just be consistent!!
Top 50 Psychologists for your cards 1. Sigmund Freud 4. Erik Erikson 2. Anna Freud 5. Lawrence Köhlberg 3. Carl Jung 6. Carol Gilligan A Quality Secondary Education in the Franciscan Tradition
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7. William James 29. Noam Chomsky 8. William Wundt 30. Edward Thorndike 9. BF Skinner 31. HJ Eysenck 10. John B Watson 32. Mary Ainsworth 11. Jean Piaget 33. Kenneth Clark 12. Harry Harlow 34. Lev Vygotsky 13. Carl Rogers 35. Martin Seligman 14. Abraham Maslow 36. Howard Gardner 15. Karen Horney 37. Kurt Lewin 16. Alfred Adler 38. Ivan Pavlov 17. Gordon Allport 39. Hermann Ebbinghaus 18. Diane Baumrind 40. Benjamin Whorf 19. Solomon Asch 41. Robert Rosenthal 20. Stanley Schachter 42. Lenore Jacobson 21. Stanley Milgram 43. Judith Langlois 22. Philip Zimbardo 44. David Rosenhan 23. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross 45. Daniel Goleman 24. Elizabeth Loftus 46. Charles Spearman 25. Robert Sternberg 47. Albert Ellis 26. Albert Bandura 48. Harry Stack Sullivan 27. Raymond Cattell 49. Robert Yerkes 28. Aaron Beck 50. Alfred Binet
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