PSYCHOLOGY 1107
Introductory Psychology II

IMPORTANT NOTICES

Please examine this page carefully now and regularly during the term.

A substantial number of students need to get their asses in gear!

Midterm exams grades were less than impressive, so more serious preparation for the final is strongly recommended.

Attendance appears to be down, despite the fact that the lecture content counts for 40% of the final exam.

Students are responsible for actually really reading the textbook, which midterm exam results suggest is not happening.

The number of students failing to meet deadlines or even bother to do lab assignments doesn't augur well.

We want you to do well.  Please don't disappoint us.

Please remember the following rules will be strictly enforced.

• Students are not to attend lecture (or lab) sessions other than the ones in which they are registered.
• Students are not to enter the lecture theatre after a lecture has begun. If you are late, wait for the break to join the class.
• Students are not to leave a lecture in progress without prior permission.
• Students are not to access cell phones, computers or iPods during lecture without explict prior permission.
• Students are not to talk to their neighbours during a lecture, including during audio or video presentations.
• Students who miss a lecture should download the PowerPoints for the lecture and get someone's notes to fill it out. Students are entirely responsible for making up for any missed classes.
• Students are entirely and solely responsible for the textbook readings, and should study the textbook material on a lecture theme before the lecture.
• Students should contact Stephenie Hevenor regarding any questions concerning labs, term papers, or grade records.
• Students who miss deadlines are dead meat.  We have no sympathy and accept no excuses.
• Students who have any serious, justified problems regarding anything above should contact either Steph or Ken immediately or before the problem interfers with abiding by these rules.  After the fact excuses will be ignored.

Review the syllabus.  It has all the rules and guidelines, and you are responsible for knowing them and abiding by them.

Note:  If there ever isn't sufficient time in class to present some audio and video components in any lecture unit, or there are technical problems that prevent the in-class presentation, Internet addresses that link to the source materials can be found on the PowerPoint slides for the unit. Students are still responsible for this material, so they should follow the links and view or listen to the material!

SYLLABUS (Read carefully or suffer the consequences!)

Click here (Word Document)

LINK TO LABS PAGE (including term paper and grades information)

Click here to go there.

LECTURE UNITS

PowerPoints for Psyc 1107 units links are activated within one week of the completion of the lecture, and they may be viewed, downloaded, or printed out. They are made available as an aid to reviewing one's notes and memories from class. They are not a substitute for attending class. (Links to AV materials within these Powerpoints are not activated for both copyright reasons and technical reasons, but in many cases pointers to where to find the material on the Internet is included in the slide.)

• Unit 00: Introduction and Review (Jan. 5 & Jan. 7)
• Syllabus and expectations
• Review and open forum questions
• Unit 11: Memory – Our Brains as Storage Containers (Jan. 12 & Jan. 14)
• “Try To Remember That Day in September” – The Memory System and Types of Memory
• “Lest We Forget” – Forgetting and Problems with Memory
• “Improving Your Memory: The Tricks” – Ways to Remember What You Want To Remember
• Unit 12: Thinking, Language and Intelligence – I Think Therefore I Am (Jan. 19 & Jan. 21)
• “Smart as A Whip or Thick as A Stick” – The Definition and History of Intelligence
• “I Think, Therefore I Am?” – Cognition, Creativity, Problem Solving and Decision Making
• “Where We Would Be Without Words?” – The Variations of Verbal Communication
• Unit 13: Motivation and Emotion – Wanting, Striving and Feeling (Jan. 26 & Jan. 28)
• “If He Did It, What Was His Motive?” – Understanding Motivation
• “He Did It For Love or Was It Just Sex?” – The Evolution Of Sex and Love
• “How Did He Feel About What Happened?” – Defining and Distinguishing Emotion and Feelings
• Unit 14: Developmental Psychology – Our Life Story from Seed to Soil (Feb. 2 & Feb. 4)
• “What It Means To Grow and Grow Up” – Stage Theories of Development
• “Kids Think Differently” – Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development
• “Learning How To Live” – Development of Cognitive and Decision Making Skills
• Unit 15: Personality – What Defines Us? (Feb. 9 & Feb. 11)
• “Gosh, She’s A Real Personality!” – Approaches to Understanding Personality
• “You Failed Your Personality Test!” – Measuring Personality
• “So What’s Your Thesis?” – Time Set Aside For Thesis Students
• ~~Study Week (Feb. 16 & Feb. 18)
• No classes
• ~~Midterm Exam (Feb. 23 & Feb. 25)
• Covers Lecture Units 11 through 15, all Labs up to date of exam, and Text Chapters 8-12
• Unit 16: Disorders – When Things Go Wrong (Mar. 2 & Mar. 4)
• “Who Is To Say You’re Crazy?” – Defining ‘Mental Illness’
• “Secret Life Of The Brain” – Three Case Studies Of Brains Gone Wrong
• “What Kind of Crazy Are You?” – The DSM-IV and Classification of Mental Illness
• Unit 17: Therapies – Treating the Troubled (Mar. 9 & Mar. 11)
• “Facilitating Communication with the Autistic” – ‘Treating’ Autism
• “Therapies: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” – Types of Therapies and their Efficacy
• “Say Again: What’s Your Thesis?” – Time Set Aside For Thesis Students
• Unit 18: Health – Applied Psychology Sometimes Misapplied (Mar. 16 & Mar 18)
• “Live Long and Prosper!” – Determinants of Longevity, Happiness and Health
• “Fat and Thin, Food and Fads” – Obesity, Anorexia, Nutrition, and Health
• “It’s Your Party, Cry If You Want To, Die If You Want To” – Social Engineering and Health
• Unit 19: Social Psychology I – Individuals as Social Animals (Mar. 23 & Mar. 25)
• “Fitting In and Falling Out” – The Concepts and Nature of ‘Society’ and Groups
• “Working and Playing Well With Others” – Bases For Interpersonal Relationships
• “Cross That Line, I’ll Kick Your Arse!” – The Nature and Roots of Aggression
• Unit 20: Social Psychology II – The Antisocial Science? (Mar. 30 & Apr. 1)
• “Students in Jail Because Of Psychology” – The Stanford Prison Study
• “Would You Want Your Daughter to Marry A Psychologist?” – Ethics in the Social Sciences
• “That ‘Nasty Science’, Psychology: Uses and Abuses” – What To Think about Psychology?!
• ~~Final Exam (Scheduled for April 16th at 6 p.m. in the Surtees Athletic Centre )
• Covers entire course (All Lectures Units, All Labs, and Textbook Chapters 8-16)
• Emphasis placed on material presented subsequent to Midterm Exam

TEXTBOOK

The textbook is Psychology: Frontiers and Applications (Third Canadian Edition) by Passer, Smith, Atkinson, Mitchell, and Muir. Reading the textbook and knowing the content is entirely the student’s responsibility.

Chapters 8 through 16 are covered in 1107.  (The first 7 chapters were covered in Psyc 1106 and the student is expected to also know this material as prerequisite to the new material.)  Chapters related to lecture material should be perused before the lecture is presented.  See the syllabus for details.

 
Remember Pavlov's Principle: You can't teach a dead dog new tricks! 

Sincerely in peace within complexity, 

Ken Stange