Sections 33-50 (
Introduction to Psychology
Dr.
Jonathan Golding
111A
Kastle Hall (mailbox)
257-4395
(Dr. Golding's office)
257-6843
(Psychology Department main office)
email: golding@pop.uky.edu
course webpage: http://www.uky.edu/~golding/PSY100homepage.htm
MW
or
by appointment
Teaching Assistants (all have mailboxes in the hallway
near 111A Kastle Hall)
SECTIONS
33, 35, 38, 39, 46 SECTIONS
34, 36
Lili Cook
SECTIONS
37, 42, 47, 48, 49 SECTIONS
40, 41, 43, 45, 50
Kelly
DiGian Kathryn
Bylica
SECTION
44
Elizabeth
Eckler
This course is part of the University Studies
Program, which is designed to provide all
This course is designed to provide you with a broad,
general introduction to psychology. We will discuss basic subject matter,
approaches to doing research, and also the means by which psychological
knowledge is (or can be) applied to our lives.
Passing this course is a prerequisite to more advanced courses in the
Department of Psychology that develop in greater breadth and depth topics that
you will read about and/or discuss in this course.
There are three goals in this course. First, the
course has the goal of increasing your knowledge of psychology. You
should finish this course with a better understanding of psychological
approaches to studying behavior and mental processes, problems in psychology,
historical antecedents, and research findings, concepts, and methodologies.
The second goal is to help you develop scientific
values and skills. The course should stimulate your intellectual curiosity
about behavior and mental processes. In addition, the course should impress
upon you the importance of the scientific method, the possibility of biases in
research, and the importance of having a critical attitude toward all
generalizations.
The third goal is to aid in your personal
development. The knowledge you gain from this course should increase your
tolerance of the behavior and mental processes of others. It should also give
you a better understanding of the forces that limit your behavior and mental
processes, stimulate your curiosity to explain why people behave as they do,
and allow you be more critical of the "truth" often expressed by
"experts." In sum, you should be made more aware of the psychology of
everyday life.
I would like this course to be very special for you,
to be something you enjoy, look forward to, and will remember long after you
leave
PsychOnline (accessed via the
Internet). To access this website you will need to purchase a code number from
the bookstore.
PsychOnline is a
comprehensive web resource for Introduction to Psychology courses. It is
designed to take the place of a traditional textbook, providing: tutorials to
guide you through the core content of psychology, activities to demonstrate key
psychological principles, quizzes to test your knowledge of the material. We
will discuss PsychOnline
in detail during class.
Golding, J. M., Yozwiak, J., & Mace, D. (2002). Experiencing psychological science:
Students’ edition.
KY:
Myers, D. G. (2001). Exploring psychology (5th Edition-paperback). NY: Worth
Publishers.
IMPORTANT--please note the following:
1) You must have access to
the Internet.
2) Your access to the
Internet must include the Shockwave/Flash plug-in.
3) You must have an email
account.
4) When registering for PsychOnline your URL is www.MetaText.com and you will
choose Plain Text format.
5) My overheads and handouts are protected by state
common law and federal copyright law. They are my own original expression.
Whereas you are authorized to take notes in class based on my overheads and
handouts, this authorization extends only to making one set of notes for your
own personal use, sharing one copy of those notes with another student who is
enrolled in this class for his/her own studies, and no other use. You are not
authorized to make any commercial use of my overheads and handouts without
express prior written permission from me.
NO food or
drinks are allowed in Memorial Hall.
NO sitting in
the balcony of Memorial Hall, unless all of the seats on the floor are
occupied.
All cellular
phones must be on silent ring in Memorial Hall.
Class Lecture Schedule
(subject to change)
WEEK OF TOPIC(S) CHAPTER(S)
COVERED
September. 2 Research Methods 1
September
9 Biology and Behavior 3
September
16 Sensation and Perception 5
September
23 Learning 7
EXAM 1 (Friday, Sept. 27) 1, 3, 5
September
30 Learning 7
Memory 8
October
7 Memory 8
Intelligence 9
October
14 Intelligence 9
October
21 Development 4
EXAM 2 (Wednesday, Oct. 23) 7, 8, 9
October
28 Development 4
Motivation 10
November
4 Motivation 10
November
11 Personality 12
November
18 Abnormal Behavior 13
EXAM 3 (Wednesday, Nov. 20) 4, 10, 12
November
25 Abnormal Behavior 13
December
2 Therapy 14
December
9 Social Psychology 15
December
16 EXAM 4 13,
14, 15
(Finals
Week) (Wednesday, Dec. 18
PsychOnline Schedule (subject to change)
WEEK OF TOPIC(S) PsychOnline (read all unless specified)
August
28 The
Science of Psychology Access PsychOnline
September
2 Research Methods Due: Wednesday, September 4
Access to PsychOnline should be complete
CHAPTER 1
Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and
Answer Questions: Overview
READ The
Scientific Method in Psychology
The Scientific Method in
Psychology: Activities
DO Assemble the Steps
READ Psychology in the News
READ
Descriptive Research
READ Correlational
Research (pages 1-8)
READ Experiments in
Psychology
September
9 Biology and Behavior Due: Monday, September 9
CHAPTER 2
Neural and Hormonal Systems: Overview
READ Neurons and Neural Impulses (pages 1-3,
9-11)
READ Neural Communication
The
Brain: Overview
READ Lower-Level Brain Functions
READ
Cerebral Cortex
Due: Friday, September 13
CHAPTER 2
The Brain: Overview
Cerebral Cortex: Activities
READ Simulate a Split-Brain Experiment
September
16 Biology and Behavior Due: Monday, September 16
CHAPTER
5
Vision:
Overview
READ Light and the Eye
Light and the Eye: Activities
Label
Structures of the Eye
READ Demonstrate Events in the
Retina
Vision:
Overview
Visual Processing
READ Visual Pathway
WEEK OF TOPIC(S) PsychOnline (read all unless specified)
September 16 Biology
and Behavior Due: Wednesday, September 18
CHAPTER 6
Perceptual Organization:
Overview
READ
Depth Perception
Depth Perception: Activities
DO Relative Motion in Action
DO Identifying Depth Cues:
Demonstration
September
23 Sensation and Perception NO
PsychOnline assignments
September
30 Learning Due: Monday, September 30
CHAPTER
8
Classical
Conditioning: Overview
READ
Pavlov's Experiments
CHAPTER
8
Operant Conditioning:
Overview
READ Skinner's Experiments
October
7 Memory Due: Monday, October 7
CHAPTER
8
Learning by Observation:
Overview
READ Bandura’s
Experiments and Legacy
(Observational Learning)
Observational
Learning: Activities
READ Psychology Around
the Globe: Modeling
Aggression in
CHAPTER
9
Storage:
Retaining Information: Overview
READ
Short-Term Memory
Due: Wednesday, October 9
CHAPTER
9
Retrieval:
Getting Information Out: Overview
Memory
Retrieval: Activities
DO Demonstrate Tip-of-the-Tongue
Experience
Due: Friday, October 11
Introduction
to Intelligence:
Overview
READ Defining and Describing Intelligence
October
14 Intelligence Due:
Monday, October 14
Genetic and Environmental Influences on
Intelligence: Overview
READ The Nature
and Nurture of Intelligence
WEEK OF TOPIC(S) PsychOnline (read all unless specified)
October
21 Development Due: Friday,
October 25
CHAPTER
4
Prenatal Development:
Overview
READ
Prenatal Development and the Newborn
Infancy and Childhood:
Overview READ Physical Development in Infancy
and Childhood
READ
Cognitive Development in Inf
and Child (pp.1-13)
Cognitive Development in Infancy and Childhood: Activities
DO Simulated Exp.: Piaget's Checkers Task
Social Development in Infancy and
Childhood: Activities
DO Simulated Experiment: The Attachment Bond
October 28 Development Due: Monday, October 28
CHAPTER 4
Adolescence:
Overview
READ Adolescent Development
Due: Friday, Nov. 1
CHAPTER
12
Introduction
to Motivation: Overview
READ
Motivational Concepts
Hunger: Overview
READ Physiology of Hunger
READ
Psychology of Hunger
Sexual
Motivation: Overview
READ Sexual Motivation and Orientation
November
4 NO PsychOnline
assignments
November
11 Personality Due: Monday, Nov. 11
CHAPTER
14
The Trait Perspective
The Trait Perspective Activities
DO Body Types and Personality
The Trait Perspective:
Overview
READ The Trait
Perspective
Due, Wednesday, Nov. 13
CHAPTER
14
The
Psychoanlystic Perspective: Activities
Defense Mechanisms
November
18 Abnormal Behavior Due: Friday, Nov. 22
CHAPTER
15
Anxiety
Disorders: Overview
READ Symptoms and Types of Anxiety
Disorders
WEEK OF TOPIC(S) PsychOnline (read all unless specified)
November
18 Abnormal Behavior Due: Monday, Nov. 25
CHAPTER
15
Mood Disorders:
Overview
READ Symptoms and Types of Mood Disorders
Symptoms and Types of Mood Disorders:
Activities
DO Demonstrate a Test for Depression
Dec.
2 Therapy Due: Monday, Dec. 2
CHAPTER
16
Biomedical
Therapies: Overview
READ
Biomedical Therapies
CHAPTER
16
Psychological
Therapies: Overview
READ
Humanistic Therapies
READ
Group and Family Therapies
Evaluating Psychotherapies:
Overview
READ The
Effectiveness of Therapies
Dec.
9 Social
Psychology Due: Monday, Dec. 9
CHAPTER
18
Social Thinking:
Overview
READ Attributions
Social Influence:
Overview
READ: Conformity and Obedience
Social Influence:
Overview
Conformity
and Obedience: Activities
DO Conformity in Daily Life
Due: Wednesday, Dec. 11
CHAPTER
18
Social
Influence: Overview
READ Group Influences
Social
Relations: Overview
READ
Altruism
Exams
70% of your grade will be based on exams that cover
material from the MWF lectures, the textbooks, and the laboratories for this
course. There will be four exams, each comprised of multiple-choice items. Your
three highest scores on exams will each count 20% toward your final grade, and
your lowest score on exams will count 10% toward your final grade.
Exam Dates and Times
(subject to change)
Dav Date Chapters Covered
EXAM
1 Friday September 27 1,
2, 5
EXAM
2 Wednesday October 23 7, 8, 9
EXAM
3 Wednesday November 20 4, 10, 12
EXAM
4 Wednesday Dec. 18 13,
14, 15
All exams are from
20% of your grade will be based on your performance
in the lab for this course. Each lab will involve a demonstration and/or
experiment concerning a topic in psychology, typically from your laboratory
manual. Unless you are told otherwise by Dr. Golding
or your TA you should bring your laboratory manual to lab each week.
You will be required to answer one or more questions
concerning each of the labs. The question(s) will be given prior to a specific
lab, the day of a particular lab, or the next week in lab. The answers to the
question(s) for a particular lab will be graded from 0-10 points.
NOTE: There will be no labs the week of Aug. 28,
Sept. 2, Sept. 30, Nov. 11, Nov. 25, Dec. 9, and Dec. 16 (Finals Week).
August
28 NO LAB!!! ------
September
2 NO LAB!!! ------
September
9 The
Science of Psychology 1
September
16 Brain and Behavior 2
September
23 Sensory Processes and
Perception 3
September
30 NO
LAB!!! ------
October
7 Conditioning 4
October
14 Memory 5
October
21 Developmental
Psychology 6
October
28 Motivation 7
November
4 Personality 8
November
11 NO LAB
!!! ------
November
18 Psychopathology 9
November
25 NO LAB
!!! ------
December
2 Social Behavior 10
December
9 NO LAB
!!! ------
Finals
Week NO LAB !!! ------
In-class/Out-of-class
Assignments
5% of your grade will be based on your performance
in numerous assignments that will either be completed in-class (i.e., during
lecture) or out-of-class (e.g., via email, in lab). These may include giving
your opinion of a particular reading, doing some library research, taking a PsychOnline quiz, looking something up on the
Internet, answering a survey about class, etc. To pass the course students must have a score above "0" on at
least 75% of all in-class/out-of-class assignments. (There will be a
minimum of 10 of these assignments.) That is, if there are 10 assignments and
you miss 3 or more assignments without having an excused absence for each
assignment you miss you will automatically fail the course regardless of your
other grades.
5% of your grade will be based on the successful
completion of a research participation requirement. You will be required to
complete 6 credits of research as a research participant. (Note: Completing more than 6 credit hours does NOT earn you extra
points.) Each 25 minutes of research participation will be worth 1/2
credit. It is worthwhile to get this requirement completed as soon as possible.
This requirement will be discussed more fully in lecture and in lab.
If you are unwilling or unable to
participate as a research subject in some or all of the required hours, an
alternative is available. You may read an article (to be obtained from your TA)
and then answer questions about the article or write an article summary. You
will give your answers or summary to your TA. This alternative is worth 1
credit. Answers or summaries will be evaluated as "Acceptable" or
"Unacceptable." If "Acceptable" you will receive the 1
credit, but if "Unacceptable" you will not receive this credit. An
"Unacceptable" set of answers or summary may be rewritten and resubmitted.
However, if the answers or summary is “Unacceptable” and the deadline for
turning in alternative research summaries has passed you cannot turn in a
resubmitted set of answers or a summary.
If you sign up for a research study and do NOT show
up at the assigned time without an excused absence, you will receive a no-show.
A “no show” decreases the total number of credits that you can earn. For
example, if you miss a one-hour experiment, then you can only earn a maximum of
five rather than six hours. If you miss a two-hour experiment, the maximum credits
that you can earn during the term gets cut to 4. If you have a “last-minute”
emergency that occurs within 24 hours of the experiment, then you must provide
the experimenter with documentation of the legal or medical emergency that
necessitated your absence.
The last day you can deposit research credit slips
and alternative research summaries (including resubmitted summaries) in the
research credit boxes will be announced in lecture and/or lab.
The possibility of extra credit will be discussed
during the course of the semester.
90-100 A
80-89.99 B
70-79.99 C
60-69.99 D
Below
60 E
Attendance must be discussed with regard to lecture,
exams, and laboratory. First, attendance at lectures is not a specific course
requirement. However, you are strongly encouraged to be present for lectures.
Moreover, whether you are present or not, you will be responsible for material
covered, in-class assignments, and/or relevant announcements. It is most
unlikely that you will be able to do well in this course without regular
lecture attendance.
Second, attendance at exams is a specific course
requirement. Make-up exams will only be offered in the case of an
"excused" absence. Excused absences are defined by the
Third, attendance at labs and completing the
corresponding lab assignments (i.e., having a score above “0”) are specific
course requirements. A make-up for a lab or lab assignment will only be offered
in the case of an "excused" absence. (See above for definitions of
“excused” and “unexcused” absences.) If you know before the excused absence is
to occur that you will be absent, then present documentation to your TA ahead
of time. There are 10 labs--attendance will be taken and records made of
whether you complete each lab assignment. You must attend at least 9 labs and
complete the corresponding 9 lab assignments to pass the course. That is, if
you do not meet these requirements you will automatically fail the course
regardless of your other grades on labs, exams, in-class/out-of-class
assignments, and research participation. An unexcused absence from a lab or not
completing a corresponding lab assignment will result in a grade of zero (0)
for that particular lab. To be clear about the lab grading policy: your lab
grade is based on 10 grades. That is, although you may miss one lab due to an
unexcused absence and still pass the course, you will lose 10 points for that
lab when your lab grade is calculated.
In the event of an excused absence from a lecture
exam, lab, lab assignment, or in-class/out-of-class assignment you have the
right to make up the work. The following conditions apply to making up the work
due to an excused absence. For a missed lecture exam, you must present
documentation of the absence to Dr. Golding by the
time you return to lecture and be prepared to take the make-up exam within 3
school days. For a missed lab or lab assignment, you must present documentation
of the absence to your TA by the time you return to lecture or lab and a
make-up activity will be provided for you within 5 school days of your return.
For a missed in-class/out-of-class assignment, you must present documentation
of the absence to Dr. Golding by the time you return
to lecture or lab and a make-up activity will be provided for you within 2
school days of your return.
Failure to make up an excused lecture exam, lab, lab
assignment, or in-class/out-of-class assignment by following the conditions
specified above will result in a grade of zero (0).
Score
on
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