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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.

Chapter 7: States of Consciousness

Mo 11/16 Have read pp 265-275

Tu 11/17 Have read pp 275-285

We 11/18

  - Have read pp 285-293
  - Quiz 7-1

Th 11/19 Have read pp 294-301

Fr 11/20

  - Have read pp 301-306
  - Quiz 7-2

Mo 11/23 Ch 7 Test

Chapters 5 & 6: Sensation & Perception

Th 10/22 Have read pp 193-198

Fr 10/23 Have read pp 199-203

Mo 10/26 Have read pp 203-211

Tu 10/27 Chap 4 interview assignment due

We 10/28 Quiz 5-1

Th 10/29 Have read pp 212-218

Mo 11/2 Have read pp 219-228

Tu 11/3 Have read pp 231-236

We 11/4
   - Have read pp 236-243
   - Quiz 6-2

Th 11/5 Have read pp 243-247

Fr 11/6

   - Have read pp 248-254

   - Assignment due Monocular Depth Cues

Print or attach two pictures on 8.5x11 inch paper (standard size). Identify (drawing arrows is the easiest way) two different monocular depth cues on each picture (altogether, a minimum of four different cues must be identified). Each cue must be named and described in a sentence or two that make it clear you understand how the cue works (e.g., "Interposition--I can tell the car is closer than the tree because it partially blocks my view of the tree."). No word processing necessary on this assignment.


Mo 11/9 Have read pp 254-262

Tu 11/10 Quiz 6 (moved to Monday 11/9)

We 11/11 Test (moved to Tuesday 11/10)

Chapter 4 Development


Fr 10/9 Have read pp 135-142

Mo 10/12 Have read pp 143-150

Tu 10/13 Have read pp 150-158

We 10/14 Have read pp 159-171

Th 10/15 Quiz 4-1

Fr 10/16 Have read pp 172-182

Mo 10/19 Have read pp 182-190

Tu 10/20 Quiz 4-2

We 10/21 Chapter 4 Test

Tu 10/27 Adolescence Interview due
1. Conduct an informal interview (more like a conversation, really) with someone who is at least 65 years old. You may interview a relative, neighbor, or member of your house of worship. You may also call a nursing home to arrange to interview a resident. If you're having trouble finding someone to interview, contact me.

2. Do not tape record the conversation (it makes people nervous), but do jot a few notes as you proceed. Have some topics for questions in mind before you go in, but be flexible and allow the conversation to follow its own course. Aim for a 30 minute interview.

3. The interview should be about adolescence as it was experienced by your interview subject. You may ask about school, friendship and dating activities, family, part-time jobs, historical events (e.g., the impact of World War II or the Depression, etc.). You may also ask about your subject's opinions of today's teenagers.

4. Prepare a two page report about your interview. Rather than trying to summarize the whole conversation, restrict your paper to two or three topics that you found especially interesting. Make sure you include your opinions about each of the topics you highlight (your opinion should constitute about half the paper) and a brief paragraph at the beginning introducing the person you interviewed.

Chapter 1 Supplement
Required for anyone who got a grade below C- on the Chapter 1 test
Due Tuesday, September 29

1. Answer the following concerning correlation.

     a. What is a correlation?

     b. What is the difference between a positive and a negative correlation?

     c. How can a correlation coefficient (r) be used to determine the strength and direction of  correlation?

     d. What cannot be concluded from correlational data?

     e. What practical use is correlation appropriate for?

2. Explain how a health psychologist would attempt to demonstrate that aerobic exercise could reduce the level of anxiety in people who suffer from anxiety disorders. In your essay, you should

     - name the type of research that would be used for this issue.

     - state a hypothesis

     - identify a population and describe how a sample would be selected

     - identify the two experimental variables and describe how they might be operationalized

     - identify the two groups

     - provide examples of confounding variables and explain how they should be controlled

     - explain how statistics would be used to tell whether or not the hypothesis was true

     - explain why replication is an important step in the process

Chapter 2: Neuroscience


Th 9/24 Have read pp 57-61

Fr 9/25 Have read pp 61-65

Mo 9/28 Have read pp 65-72

Tu 9/29 Have read pp 72-76

We 9/30 Quiz 2-1

Th 10/1 Have read pp 76-85

Fr 10/2 Have read pp 85-93
 
Mo 10/5
   - Have read pp 94-96
   - Quiz 2-2 (delayed until Tuesday)
   - Brain coloring due. Rules:
    1. Titles in black.
    2. Subtitles (followed by a star) in gray.
    3. Name and structure in the same color.
    4. Related structures (e.g., the frontal lobe, the speech center, and the motor center) in different shades of the same color.
    5. Same color on both diagrams for any structure that appears on both.
    6. Neatness counts!

Tu 10/6 Test (delayed until Wednesday)

Chapter 1: Thinking Critically with Psychological Science

Tu 9/8 Have read pp 19-24

We 9/9 Have read pp 24-30

Th 9/10 Have read pp 30-37

Fr 9/11
   - Have read pp 37-41
   - Quiz 1-1 (delayed until Monday)

Mo 9/14 Have read pp 42-46

Tu 9/15 Have read pp 46-53

We 9/16 Assignment due (delayed until Thursday)

An industrial-organizational psychologist is interested in knowing whether receiving compliments make people work harder on an assembly line.

    1. Making sure you identify both the population and the sample, explain how participants should be chosen for an experiment to answer the psychologist's question.
    2. Create a hypothesis with operationalized variables that might be used.
    3. Identify the IV and DV.
    4. Label and describe the groups involved.
    5. Identify 2 potential confounding variables and explain how they could be adequately controlled.


Th 9/17 Quiz 1-2 (delayed until Tuesday)

Mo 9/21 Chapter 1 test (delayed until Wednesday)

Prologue: The Story of Psychology

Th 8/27

  • Have read pp 1-4
  • 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 8/28 Have read pp 4-9


Mon 8/31

  • Have read pp 9-12
  • Personal information sheet due

Tu 9/1 Have read pp 12-16

We 9/2 Prologue Quiz

Th 9/3 Prologue assignment due. Spend some time exploring psychology on the net by choosing one of the four options below. Then, write a short paper (minimum length 2/3 of a page; maximum length 1 page). Your paper should have two paragraphs of approximately equal length. The first should be a brief summary of the content of your choice (please include the URL). The second should be a personal opinion about the site.

  1. Listen to an episode of WNYC Radiolab at  http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/?gclid=CIvD59Odx5QCFQkmIgodpyXBkw Choose an episode that sounds interesting from the list on the right side. These episodes run for about an hour, but they are the most professionally produced of the options.
  2. Listen to an episode of Michael Britt's The Psych Files at http://www.thepsychfiles.com/  The best way to find an episode of interest to you is to use the Episode Map in the lower left corner of the main page.
  3. Listen to an episode of Chris Green's This Week in the History of Psychology podcast at: http://www.yorku.ca/christo/podcasts/  These are interviews, and some are better than others. But if you're interested in history, this is the one for you. The entry for October 2-8 is about William James and the publication of The Principles.
  4. Read two entries from Wray Herbert's We're Only Human blog at: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/onlyhuman/  Wray Herbert is a journalist who has written about fascinating psychological research for many years.

  1. Listen to an episode of WNYC Radiolab at  http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/?gclid=CIvD59Odx5QCFQkmIgodpyXBkw Choose an episode that sounds interesting from the list on the right side. These episodes run for about an hour, but they are the most professionally produced of the options.
  2. Listen to an episode of Michael Britt's The Psych Files at http://www.thepsychfiles.com/  The best way to find an episode of interest to you is to use the Episode Map in the lower left corner of the main page.
  3. Listen to an episode of Chris Green's This Week in the History of Psychology podcast at: http://www.yorku.ca/christo/podcasts/  These are interviews, and some are better than others. But if you're interested in history, this is the one for you. The entry for October 2-8 is about William James and the publication of The Principles.
  4. Read two entries from Wray Herbert's We're Only Human blog at: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/onlyhuman/  Wray Herbert is a journalist who has written about fascinating psychological research for many years.

 Fr 9/4 Prologue Test