PSY 415
Advanced
General Psychology
Spring 2006
Syllabus
Week |
Tuesdays |
Thursdays |
Week 1 |
August 22 Class 1 - : Introduction to the course and its mechanics – Introduction to concept mapping, association testing, and a review of disciplinary taxonomies. |
August 24 Class 2 - Issues driving the field – Revisiting our Discipline’s Taxonomies and Paradigmatic Philosophies Pick a Paper Topic: Greatest Research Demonstrations in….. My Hero in …. Is….. Greatest Research Programs Most Influential Books…. About the Nobel Laureates…. My Nobel nominee is….. |
Week 2 |
August 29 Class 3 - Landmark Research: Early Development Who/what can you name besides Piaget?
|
Class 4 - : Language Development Talking with the Animals? |
Week 3 |
Class 5 - Life-Span Development Who wrote “On Death and Dying” ?? |
Class 6 - Physiology – Where Psychology meets Biology Innovations in Brain Research |
Week 4 |
Class 7 - States of Mind…… Who watches while others Sleep? What is Consciousness? Katie Packell - Levels of Consciousness |
Class 8 - Divided Brains and other insults to the brain…. Who was the original brain injured individual?? |
Week 5 |
Who wrote "On Aggression" and why does he have a Nobel Prize? |
September 21 Class 10 - Review for Test 1 Greatest Research Programs vs. Most Influential Books/Papers in Developmental and Psychophysiology |
Week 6 |
September 26 Class 11 - Test #1 |
September 28 Class 12 - Sensation and Perception – Making Sense of Sensory inputs. Another Nobel Prize Winner: Landmark research on line and pattern perception. |
Week 7 |
October 3 Class 13 - Learning revisited |
October 5 Class 14 - More on Learning – History of Theories Jaslin Goicoechea - Histories of Learning Theories |
Week 8 |
October 10 FALL BREAK No Classes! |
October 12 Class 15 - Social learning and modeling. Is aggression learned? Revisiting the Bobo Doll and simulated Prisons. |
Week 9 |
October 17 Class 16 - The Cognitive Revolution Who was the Father of the Cognitive Revolution? |
October 19 Class 17 - Cognitive Revolutions continued… Cognitive Processes, Judgement, and Decision Making Steeped in What Magical Number? |
Week 10 |
October 24 Class 18 - Review for Test 2 |
October 26 |
Week 11 |
October 31 Class 20 - Motivation and Emotion Can Robots Express Emotions? Nicole Counsell - Motivation and Emotion |
November 2 Class 21 - Testing and Individual Differences Is there a Bell Shaped Curve? Who said that? Brittany Lee - Testing & Individual Differences |
Week 12 |
November 7 Class 22 - Is there a Self? There is a Self Psychology…. |
November 9 Class 23 - Psychotherapies Revisited. What’s the Issue? Can you shape the therapy conversation? |
Week 13 |
November 14 Class 24 – Personality What would Psychology have been without Freud? |
November 16 Class 25 - More on Personality Catherine Eisenbrandt - Current Personality Theories |
Week 14 |
November 2 Class 26 - Constructionism and Social Realities |
November 23 THANKSGIVING BREAK |
Week 15 |
November 2 Class 27 - Course Review Lab: Concept Mapping the Course I |
November 30 Class 28 - Test #3 (Last Day of Class) |
Week 16 |
December 5 Final Exam |