2006 TENTATIVE CLASS CALENDAR

 

Week

Dates

 

Class

Topic

Assignment

1

JAN 09

         11 

1

2

Introduction to Class

pp xxxix-xlv, Chapter 1,

& Appendix C.

2

14

16

        18

3

4

5

Psychological Science?

Video: Consciousness (1995)        

Methodology & Statistics

Skinner (1948)

Walden Two

Chapter 2 &

Appendix B

3

         JAN 21

         23

         25 

 

6

7

KING RECESS

Biological Bases

Video: Evolution (1994)

Chapter 3

 

4

28        

         30

         FEB 01

8

9

10

Sensation & Perception  

Video: Understanding the Senses (1998) [Perception, 1994]                     

Chapter 4

 

Behaviorism (Skinner) Paper Due

5

04

06

08

11

12

13

Variations in Consciousness

Video: Split Brain (1975)               

Video: Hypnosis: The Big Sleep (1994)

Chapter 5

Ramachandrian (1998) Phantoms in the Breain

 

6

FEB 11

13

15

14

15

16

FIRST EXAMINATION

Learning

Video: Learning and Memory (1975)

[ DS: Learning (2001)]

CHAPTERS 1-5 & B

Chapter 6

 

7

18

20

22

17

18

19

Human Memory                       Video: Memory (1994)      

Chapter 7

 

8

 

25

27

FEB 29

20

21

22

Cognition & Intelligence

 

Chapter 8

Neuroscience (Ramachandrian) Paper Due

 

MAR 01-09

 

FALL RECESS

 

9

10

12

14

23

24

25

[Motivation & Emotion]

 

Chapter 9

Freud (1910)

Five Lectures on Psycho-analysis

10

17

19

MAR 22

26

27

 

[Human Development]

 

EASTER RECESS

Chapter 10

 

 

11

MAR 24

26

MAR 28

 

28

29

EASTER RECESS

 

SECOND EXAMINATION

 

 

CHAPTERS 6-10

12

31

APR 02

04

30

31

32

Personality

Video: Freud (1997) BF109.F74 S546

[Stress, Coping & Health]

 

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

13

APR 07

09

11

33

34

35

Psychological Disorders

Video: Schizophrenia (1999) [Madness, 1975]

Psychodynamic (Freud) Paper Due

Frankl (1946)

Man’s Search for Meaning

Chapter 13

14

14

16

18

36

37

38

Treatment

Video: Madness and Medicine (1975)

 

Chapter 14

15

21

23

25

39

40

41

Social Psychology

Video: Obedience (1967)

Chapter 15

 

16

APR 28

42

 

Existentialism- Humanism (Frankl) Paper Due

17

MAY 06  (Tuesday) at 12:30

43

FINAL EXAMINATION

 

Chapters 11-15

Revisions Closed