Psychology 191H Fall, 2006

Syllabus

Power Point presentations by students

Lecture 1         8/28/06 Beginning and Introduction

Lecture 2            8/30/06 History of Psychology

Lecture 3           09/01//06  History of Psychology continued

Lecture 4            09/04/06   History and now methods (why?)

Lecture 5         09/06/06   Scientific methods and observation

Lecture 6         09/08/06  Correlations and Experiments

Lecture 7           09/11/06    Experimental method and logical of statistical  inference       

Lecture 8                        09/13/06 Statistical inference and class presentations

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Learning and Memory

Lecture 9               09/15/06   Stimulus Leaning and Pavlov

Lecture 10                   09/18/06

Lecture 11                09/20/06 Response Learning 

Lecture 12               09/22/06   Response Learning

Lecture 13                   09/25/06    Applications, Learned Helplessness & Field Trip

Lecture 14  Operant Contingencies and helplessness

Lecture 15  Sept 29  Memory  Dual Model of Encoding

Oct 2 Filed trip to Alpaca "Land"

          About Alpacas
          Meet the Alpaca
          Alpaca Types
          Alpaca Breeding

Lecture 16 Oct 4 Memory II    Memory and applications

Oct 6 Film on Memory

Lecture 17 Oct 11 Memory presentation of applications and Flashbulb memory

Lecture 18 Oct 13 Biological Psychology and Neuroscience 

Lecture 19 Oct 16  Biological Psychology and Microanatomy

Lecture 20 Oct 18  Research in the Neurosciences  Sleep and Dreaming A

Oct 20    Student Presentations

Lecture 21 Oct 23 Health Psychology

Lecture 22  Oct 25th Positive Psychology

Lectures 23, 24   Mental Disorder

Lecture 23  Oct 30 Schizophrenia and possible causes

Lecture 24   Nov 1st Affective Disorders: Bipolar and Unipolar Depression.

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Social Psychology

Lectures 25 & 26 Nov 6th and 8th Conformity and the Influence of the Situation.

Conformity II Nov 8th  

Lecture 27 and 28  Nov 13th & 15 Bystander Apathy, Fundamental Attribution Error, Social Interactions

Stanford Prison Study, Bystander Apathy & stereotyping and prejudice

Lecture 28    Nov 27   Forensic Psychology I 

Lecture 29     Nov 29  Forensic Psychology II

Lecture 3o      Forensic III

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Class Presentations

History of Psychology and Methods of Research

Week 1 Aug 28-Sept 12

Aug 28-Sept 1

Anna Freud  Jessica L Bartock

Vygotsky’s Social Cultural Theory Robert L. Rapone

Carl Rogers  Eileen Gorczynski