2020/2021 Calendar
Week 1: What is psychology? Personality
Week 2: Personality (part 2), Biological
Week 3: Learning, gender
Week 4: Developmental
Week 5: Social and Cultural psychology
Week 6: Social and Cultural psychology (2), Positive psychology
Week 7: Sensation and Perception
Week 8: Thinking and Intelligence
Week 9: Memory
Week 10: Motivation and Emotion and health
Week 11: Abnormal psychology--diagnostics
Week 12: Abnormal psychology--diagnostics
Week 13: Abnormal psychology--treatment
Week 14: Abnormal psychology--treatment
Week 15: review
Course Overview
Standards (APA)
Each standard area refers to a major topic or unit in psychology. The respective standard areas within each of the broad domains are listed below.
Scientific Inquiry Domain
Perspectives in Psychological Science
Research Methods, Measurement, and Statistics
Biopsychology Domain
Biological Bases of Behavior
Sensation and Perception
Consciousness
Development and Learning Domain
Life Span Development
Learning
Language Development
Sociocultural Context Domain
Social Interactions
Sociocultural Diversity
Cognition Domain
Memory
Thinking
Intelligence
Individual Variations Domain
Motivation
Emotion
Personality
Psychological Disorders
Applications of Psychological Science Domain
Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Health
Vocational Applications
Resources
Why this class is important
NOBA open source psychology texts
Psych exam review boards
Swope's page
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Introductions
We will introduce ourselves with a "mingle" format where you walk around the room introducing yourself to at least five others, except that you and they can't use any names or grade levels or usual items. Instead, all must introduce themselves by 1) what they ate for breakfast, OR 2) their weight, OR 3) their zodiac sign:
***"Hi, I'm yogurt and frozen waffles, who are you?"***
We will analyze how people responded.
We will introduce ourselves with a "mingle" format where you walk around the room introducing yourself to at least five others, except that you and they can't use any names or grade levels or usual items. Instead, all must introduce themselves by 1) what they ate for breakfast, OR 2) their weight, OR 3) their zodiac sign:
***"Hi, I'm yogurt and frozen waffles, who are you?"***
We will analyze how people responded.
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Chapter 1: Overview of Psychology
Consciousness
Dr. Swope lecture on consciousness above. Theory of mind: you know you have a mind, and you know that someone else has a viewpoint different from your own. This usually develops by age three. The hard problem: explaining the subjective experience of the brain. Perhaps it is a cognitive illusion. See my videos above on an overview of the first semester of this class; how psychology is a science; and careers in psychology . "Essay about you" assignment below:
Resource: MIT Open Courseware here.
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Statistics
Get together with your partner. You and your partner will explain three things to the class. Define one of following terms (that I assign to you). Say what the term is NOT, so we don’t get mixed up with another concept that often is confused with your term. Lastly, give an example using your term. Terms
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Chapter 2: Personality and FreudWatch my overview video first. The Freud we wish for here. Rorschach and Freudian projection here. Measuring personality here. HTP test here. TAT here.
Big Five personality Traits
Understand the Big Five by reading my blog here. Get your score here. Cats and personality here. Dogs. Donald Trump and the Big Five here. Video of Big 5
Personality and Behaviorism
The Humanistic StreamChapter 2: Personality Study GuideReview your lecture notes and textbook on the following topics:
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Carl Jung and Myers-Briggs
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Personality and genetics
Chapter 4--Biological Psychology: Neurons and the Brain
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Right-brain/Left-brain
Answer true or false to the following questions
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Model of the Brain
Using figures 4.10, 4.11, and 4.12 in your text, create a three-dimensional model of the brain. All areas of the brain identified in figures 4.10, 4.11, and 4.12 must be identified in your model as well. You may draw the brain or sculpt the brain. If you choose drawing, make two drawings of your brain, giving me a side, split-open view and a top view. The drawings must be large, at least six inches by six inches, and presented on poster board. If you choose a model, make the model out of any workable substance: clay, playdough, styrofoam, recyclables, etc. The model must be at least as large as Mr. Spinrad’s fist. Again, all areas of the brain must be identified. See http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~Brainmd1/brain.html if you want additional figures to copy. This is a partner project. You may (but don’t have to) work with a partner. However, I will not accept work on one brain by three or more people. The project is worth a lot: 30 points. Turn it in on time. You may turn it in to me electronically or by giving me a hard copy. I will subtract 10% of the grade for every day it is late. Anxiety and neurons here Brain Diagnosis
You are a member of a neurology team at Novato Community Hospital and just received word of a new patient. You have been given a minimal amount of information. Working with all the members of your team, use the available resources from lecture and reading to gather the remaining information in order to write a preliminary diagnosis on this patient. Your group must complete your work in two days, as the patient must be treated soon. Each member of the team must be involved in the presentation or they will lose their jobs at the hospital and get a poor grade from me. Present your information on a PowerPoint presentation OR on a poster board OR on an overhead transparency, giving the class the following:
Right brain versus left brain
A superb 10-minute video here. Describe how having two brains helps the subject and hinders him. The importance of hormones--the stress-depression link Link here. Girls, boys, and autism here.
Chapter 4 Key Brain Structures Quiz Study Guide
Describe where the structure is located in the brain and its function. Occipital lobe Temporal lobe Parietal lobe Frontal lobe Broca’s area Wernickes’s area Hippocampus Medulla Pituitary gland |
Phineas Gage here. Famous brain-damaged cases: More on HM and EP Habits here. Why we sleep HERE. Why we twitch when falling asleep here.Secrets of the creative brain here.PBS series on brain here.
Sleep and brain type here. Why teenagers act crazy here. Caffeine experiment!
The class analyzed one coke's affect on heart rate. The sugar and caffeine raised heart rates in most of us. See my results below.
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