Syllabus
Most Recent Offering:
Spring Term, 2011
Dr. Roger D. Ray
Faculty Page: Roger D. Ray
Personal Web Site: www.rdray.net
E-mail Contact for Advice and Appointments: rdray@rollins.edu
If you contact me prior to the start of the course, as requested, you will receive by e-mail a greeting and message about the Intro to PsychOL course. In case you didn't contact me or wish to have a copy of this explanation of goals and testing strategy, here is a link to download a pdf file of that message:
It repeats some of the information below, but that material is well worth repeating!
This course presents an introductory topical survey of the various aspects of Psychology as both a scientific and an applied discipline. Introductory Psychology is a broad survey course designed to introduce you to the myriad of topics investigated in the study of psychology. Upon successful completion of this course you should have a basic understanding of physiological, developmental, sensation and perception, learning, cognitive, social, and personality psychology as well as motivation, psychopathology and a variety of research methods.
Unique to my particular offering of Media-Based Psy 101-OL is my very heavy reliance on electronic text and digital video, computerized and adaptive tutoring, and computerized testing as mastery certification instead of a traditional textbook and classroom lectures. Thus one major difference in my offering of the OnLine course is my use of out-of-class annotated video presentations and integrated active student responding to questions derived from these videos. These annotated video presentations and student responding substitute for traditional lectures.
Please note that only a FINAL EXAM requires you to come to campus.
Required Textbook is the Only Purchased Item ( available only online via a PayPal transaction and the cost is $95.00):
R. A. Kasschau's
Psychology: Exploring Behavior. Winter Park, FL: (AI)2, Inc.
(Purchase
on-line at http://www.ai2inc.com/Store/Store/expbeh_purchase.html as per pdf "Purchase Instructions" posted on BlackBoard)
You are strongly advised to use the on-line Tutoring services provided within the download textbook delivery system (called MediaMatrix). However, if you prefer to read from print, there are also printable pdf versions of each assigned chapter available for download and off-line reading at:
Grades for the course will be determined by a combination of these electronic video and textbook chapter certification tests and one supervised final exam using the procedures and rules described in the subsequent three sections below.
45% of your final grade for the course will be determined by the composite (average) grades established through electronic certification of chapter readings for ALL of the 15 chapters of TEXTBOOK and tutorials assigned. Any missed certification tests count in this average as a zero for each skipped chapter. Certification testing on any and all chapters takes place as follows:
1. You may take any chapter certification test as many times as you wish, with only the maximum obtained score counting towards your eventual course grade. Maximum scores are maintained on an Internet server, and you must have an active connection with that server at the time of submission of your test results for the grade to be recorded. Only a score greater than your previous score for that chapter will be recorded to the server.
Students are allowed 2 diagnostic opportunities to make at least a 70% or better score on each chapter. If this level is not accomplished within the administration of these 2 tests, then students are required to use the adaptive tutoring services in the electronic text as preparation for retaking that chapter's certification tests. Where sufficient data on your successful preparation of a topic exists, you may not be required to tutor that topic. Thus all required topics will appear in a navigable list to aid your tutoring for all required topics in a chapter prior to taking your next certification tests.
2. You may take any chapter certification at any time UP TO MIDNIGHT of the published Certification Due Date for that chapter. Thus a test due on, say, Jan 20, will have to be completed before 11:59 PM of Jan 20. When midnight starts Jan 21, your test scores will no longer be accepted by the server. Attempts to start a chapter test after this date will also give you a message that the due date for that chapter has expired and the test is no longer available.
NOTE: All students are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to anticipate due dates in advance and both read and certify well before deadlines. In fact, waiting until the last few hours of the deadline date will almost always meet sufficient traffic on the server as to make the server's responses less than 100% reliable. If you wait until the last minute it is quite likely that you may miss submitting your test score successfully. DO NOT PROCRASTINATE; instead, certify often and certify early!
Instead of traditional "hit-and-miss" class participation, where some individuals always respond and others always stay silent, this course incorporates personalized student answering of questions posed during video "virtual lectures, lab visits, and personal interviews" as a systematic way to assure that all students participate and at least minimally interact with processes defining the course. This also takes the place of "pop quizzes," in that every virtual lecture incorporates a distributed set of quiz questions throughout the video presentation. After each VIDEO quiz I will review the answers and correct any grades based on answers I consider to be correct that were graded as incorrect. These VIDEO quiz activities will collectively account for another 30% of the total course grade via an averaging of performances for each individual student across all quiz scores.
The page for downloading Mac OS-X versions is at:
NOTE: I HIGHLY recommend viewing the FULL and FREE (with simple personal registration) on-line streaming videos from which the video lecture clips are taken. You will note that the Discovering Psychology series titles pretty much match up with chapter titles. These will give you a chance to see MORE psychological research being done and applications being discussed without being tested on the material. NOTE: the FULL videos are NOT tested materials, but are really great supplements to the text and selected samples of video (that are tested materials). ENGAGE and ENJOY! These are at:
3. Final Exam: Supervised Testing of All READING Materials Covered
Tests are given frequently in this course and, except for the Final exam, TEXTBOOK tests are allowed to be taken multiple times. Thus no make-up tests (i.e., tests that have expired deadlines or Final exam) are normally allowed unless extreme circumstances require them.
Grades are determined as follows:
1. 45% of your grade is from chapter-by-chapter (15 chapters) "Mastery Certification" testing with only highest score used.
2. 25% of your grade is from a READINGS from TEXTBOOK ONLY Final Exam that is supervised and administered on-campus.
3. 30% of your grade is a "one time only" answering of turorial questions during video lecture/tutorial viewings.
89.5-100A range with < 92.5 = A- |
79.5-89.59B range with < 82.5 = B- and > 87.5 = B+ |
69.5-79.49C range with < 72.5 = C- and > 77.5 = C+ |
59.5-69.49D range with < 62.5 = D- and > 67.5 = D+ |
<59.5F |
Rollins College is committed to equal access and does not discriminate unlawfully against persons with disabilities in its policies, procedures, programs or employment processes. The College recognizes its obligations under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 to provide an environment that does not discriminate against persons with disabilities.
If you are a person with a disability on this campus and anticipate needing any type of academic accommodations in order to participate in your classes, please make timely arrangements by disclosing this disability in writing to the Disability Services Office at (box 2613) - Thomas P. Johnson Student Resource Center, 1000 Holt Ave., Winter Park, FL, 37289.Appointments can be scheduled by calling 407-646-2354 or email: gridgeway@rollins.edu
The Honor Code and You
Honest (adj) – 1. Marked by or displaying integrity; upright
2. Not deceptive or fraudulent; genuine
3. Equitable; fair
4.
a) Characterized by truth; not false / b) Sincere; frank
5. a) Of good repute; respectable / b) Without
affectation; plain
6. Virtuous; chaste
Honor (n) – Principled uprightness of character;
personal integrity
Integrity (n) – Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or
ethical code
Virtue (n) – Moral excellence and righteousness;
goodness
Responsible
(adj) – 1.
Involving personal accountability or ability to act without guidance or
superior authority
2.
Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore answerable
for one's behavior
3.
Able to be trusted or depended upon; reliable.
Definitions
Quoted Directly from The American Heritage¬ Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition
Copyright
© 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published
by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Downloaded
from www.dictionary.com on 8/17/06
The Honor Code is About a Culture of Integrity, Not About Rules:
As a student at Rollins College, you belong to a community where the members (i.e., students, faculty, and administration) have agreed to abide by an Academic Honor Code. Although this code includes rules, judicial processes, and sanctions for dishonesty, its primary purpose is not as a system of enforcement and punishment. At its base, the Rollins College Academic Honor Code recognizes that you are a responsible individual embodying the characteristics of honesty, honor, integrity, and virtue. Because you are this type of individual, we are proud to have you as a member of our community. The Honor Code is not about being a good student, it is about being a good person. We trust that you are a good person and hope that you will never violate this trust.
As an individual of honesty, honor, integrity and virtue, we acknowledge that you would never engage in acts of plagiarism, cheating, unauthorized collaboration, fabrication, or lying, nor would you submit work prepared for another course for a current assignment without the professor's permission, facilitate academic dishonesty, or violate testing conditions (see definitions below). We also acknowledge that, as a responsible style='font-size:10.0pt'> member of your community, you would feel obligated to report an honor code violation if you had knowledge of one occurring.
If you do not think that you
can live up to these expectations, if you are not fully committed to the
principles of the honor code, or if you simply believe that this whole policy
is unrealistic and nonsensical, you do not belong at Rollins College – we
wish you well, but please find another school that is better suited to your
world view.
Definitions from the Rollins College Academic Honor Code:
1. PLAGIARISM. Offering the words, facts, or ideas of
another person as your own in any academic exercise.
2. CHEATING. Using or attempting to use unauthorized
materials, information, or study aids in an academic exercise. This includes sharing knowledge of
previously administered or current tests.
The keeping of tests, papers, and other assignments belonging to former
students is prohibited. Use of
external assistance (e.g., books, notes, calculators, conversations with
others) in completing an "in class" or "take home" examination,
unless specifically authorized by the instructor, is prohibited.
3. UNAUTHORIZED
COLLABORATION. Collaboration,
without specific authorization by the instructor, on homework assignments, lab
reports, exam preparations, research projects, take home exams, essays, or
other work for which you will receive academic credit.
4. SUBMISSION
OF WORK PREPARED FOR ANOTHER COURSE.
Turning in the same work, in whole or in part, to two or more
instructors, without the consent of the instructors in both courses.
5. FABRICATION. Misrepresenting, mishandling, or
falsifying information in an academic exercise. For example, creating false information for a bibliography,
inventing data for a laboratory assignment, or representing a quotation from a
secondary source (such as a book review or a textbook) as if it were a primary
source.
6. FACILITATING
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY. Helping
another student commit an act of academic dishonesty.
7. VIOLATION
OF TESTING CONDITIONS. Looking at
other students' answers, allowing other students to look at your test, and
working past allotted time are just a few examples where test conditions may be
considered to be violated.
8. LYING. Lying is the making of a statement that
one knows to be false with the intent to deceive. It includes
actions such as (a) lying to faculty, administrators, or staff; (b) falsifying
any college document or record by mutilation, addition, deletion, or forgery;
or (c) lying to a member of the Honor Council or judicial affairs officer.
9. FAILURE
TO REPORT AN HONOR CODE VIOLATION.
Failure to report occurs when a student has knowledge of or is witness
to an act in violation of the Academic Honor Code and does not report it within
five class days.
Honor Code Statement
Membership in the student body
of Rollins College carries with it an obligation, and requires a commitment, to
act with honor in all things. Because academic integrity is fundamental to the
pursuit of knowledge and truth and is the heart of the academic life of Rollins
College, it is the responsibility of all members of the College community to
practice it and to report apparent violations.
The following pledge is a
binding commitment by the students of Rollins College:
The development of the virtues of Honor and Integrity are integral to a Rollins College education and to membership in the Rollins College community. Therefore, I, a student of Rollins College, pledge to show my commitment to these virtues by abstaining from any lying, cheating, or plagiarism in my academic endeavors and by behaving responsibly, respectfully and honorably in my social life and in my relationships with others.
This pledge is reinforced every time a student submits work for academic credit as his/her own. Students shall add to all papers, quizzes, tests, lab reports, etc., the following handwritten abbreviated pledge followed by their signature:
"On my honor, I have not given, nor received, nor witnessed any unauthorized assistance on this work."
Material submitted electronically should contain the pledge; submission implies signing the pledge.
Schedule for Spring Term, 2011
All enrolled students should e-mail me during the week prior to the start of classes for check-in and information!
READING: Chapter 1 - Psychology: Nature & Nurture - 1/12/11 (second chance 1/17/11)
VIEWING DP1-Intro - 1/13/11
VIEWING DP1-HistMethods - 1/18/11
READING: Chapter 2 - Methods & Data - 1/20/11
VIEWING DP2-Methods - 1/21/11
READING: Chapter 7 - Learning: An Overview - 1/26/11
VIEWING DP8-Learning Operant Conditioning - 1/27/11
VIEWING DP8-Learning Pavlovian Conditioning - 1/31/11
READING: Chapter 8 - Remembering - 2/2/11
VIEWING DP9-Remembering - 2/3/11
READING: Chapter 5 - Physiological Processes - 2/8/11
VIEWING DP3-Behaving Brain - 2/9/11
VIEWING DP4-Responsive Brain - 2/10/11
VIEWING DP13_14-Awake & Asleep - 2/14/11
READING: Chapter 3 - Early Development - 2/16/11
VIEWING DP5_17-Developing Child - 2/17/11
VIEWING DP6- Language Development - 2/24/11
READING: Chapter 6 - Sensation & Perception - 3/2/11
VIEWING DP7-Sensation & Perception - 3/3/11
SPRING BREAK
VIEWING DP10_11-Cognition & Decision Making - 3/15/11
READING: Chapter 10 - Motivations - 3/17/11
READING: Chapter 11 - Emotions - 3/22/11
VIEWING DP12-Motivation and Emotion - 3/24/11
READING: Chapter 16 - Social Behavior of Groups - 3/29/11
VIEWING DP19-Power of Situation - 3/31/11
READING: Chapter 17 - You & Groups - 4/6/11
VIEWING DP20-Constructing Reality - 4/7/11
READING: Chapter 13 - Personality Theories - 4/13/11
VIEWING DP15-Self - 4/14/11
READING: Chapter 14 - Personality Disorders - 4/18/11
VIEWING DP21-Psychopathology - 4/19/11
READING: Chapter 15 - Therapies - 4/25/11
VIEWING DP22-Therapies- 4/26/11
Supervised Final Exam - 4/28 (In Olin 260, 3:00-6:00 pm by appt.)