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Click on the book cover to go to the companion book site for your textbook. The first time you go here, you will have to register. It is an easy process.
 
At the companion book site, you will find chapter reviews, quizzes, flashcards, web links, and a variety of activities for each chapter. You will find these materials very helpful.

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In any course, exact planning is difficult. Especially near the beginning of the semester, there may be times we move more slowly or more rapidly than the schedule below indicates. I will try to provide at least a day's warning if the schedule is going to be changed.

Check it out on the Net!
Interested in a career in psychology? Click here for the American Psychological Association's divisions. Each of the over 50 divisions represents a potential career.
Click here to go to David Myers homepage.
Want to read a classic? Click here for the Classics in the History of Psychology website where you can find works by many famous psychologists, including James, Freud, and Watson.
Interested in what it's like to score Advanced Placement test essays? Here is a short piece about the essay reading that I wrote for the American Psychological Society's Observer.
Click here for the Barron's AP Psychology test review book.

Prologue: The Story of Psychology

 



Th 8/26

  • Have read pp 1-6
  • Read syllabus. Have parent(s) read letter and syllabus and sign slip.
  • Write a 1-page introductory note. Introduce yourself. Tell me something unusual or memorable about you. This assignment should be handwritten, not word processed.

Fr 8/27 Have read pp 6-11


Mon 8/30
Have read pp 11-16


Tu 8/31 Prologue Quiz

We 9/1 Prologue Assignment due.

Listen to one Radiolab episode or view two TED talks from the list below. Then write a paper (about one page in length) with two paragraphs. The first paragraph should summarize a few of the interesting things you learned. The second paragraphs should present a personal opinion about some aspect (or aspects) of the presentation(s).

Click here for Radiolab. From the episode scroll box on the right side of the page, choose one of the following: Animal Minds, Laughter, Deception, Pop Music, Placebo, Sleep, Memory and Forgetting, Who Am I?, or Stress.

Click here for TED. View two of the following: Martin Seligman on positive psychology, Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives, Philip Zimbardo shows how people become monsters ... or heroes, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow, Steven Pinker chalks it up to the blank slate, Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet, Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours, Steven Pinker on language and thought Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory, or Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations

Th 9/2 Prologue Test



 

Chapter 1: Thinking Critically with Psychological Science


Fr 9/3 Have read pp 19-24

Tu 9/7 Have read pp 24-30

We 9/8 Have read pp 30-37

Th 9/9 Have read pp 37-41

Fr 9/10
   - Have read pp 42-46
   - Quiz 1-1

Mo 9/11 Have read pp 46-53

Tu 9/12 Assignment due (details will follow)

We 9/13 Quiz 1-2

Th 9/14 Test