Теория и научный метод в возрастной психологии. Горчакова Е.П - 4 стр.

                                UNIT 1
                     THEORY AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD
LEAD-IN
1. Whether you are studying photosynthesis, butterflies, Saturn’s moon, or
   human development, it is the way you study that makes the approach
   scientific or not. Could you name the key ingredients of a scientific approach?
2. Can a discipline that studies how babies develop, adolescents’ thoughts
   change adults form relationships, and aging adults engage in self-control, be
   equated with disciplines that investigate the molecular structure of a
   compound and how gravity works?
3. List five traits that describe a typical scientist and five that describe a typical
   psychologist.

READING
Find the meaning of the following words in the dictionary and guess
the main issues of the text.
 to develop                  area (n)                particular (adj)
 to influence                 development (n)        prone (adj)
 to expose                   experience (n)          elderly (adj)
 to discover                 accuracy (n)            dissatisfied (adj)
 to contribute               shortcomings (n)        abnormal (adj)
 to attend                   conclusions (n)         unusual (adj)
 to enroll                   skills (n)              unnatural (adj)
 to indicate                 underestimation (n)     frequent (adj)
 to forego                   schooling (n)           disturbing (adj)
 to dwell                    expatriate (n)          cognitive (adj)
 to revise                   outbursts (n)
 to widen                    departure (n)
 to achieve                  unconscious (n)
 to involve                  emphasis (n)
 to detest                   self (n)
 to tie                      identity (n)
 to predict                  overexaggeration (n)

Read the text and find the words given above in it.

TEXT
       According to nineteenth-century French mathematician Henri Poincaré,
"Science is built of facts the way a house is built of bricks, but an accumulation
of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks a house." Science does depend
upon the raw material of facts or data, but as Poincare indicated, science is more
than just facts. As you will soon learn, psychology's theories are more than just
facts; they are the mortar that tie the facts together.
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