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Required Text:
1)
Nairne,
James S. Psychology: The Adaptive Mind. Custom
Edition for
Northern
There are a total of 320 possible points in this class.
The minimum number of points required to earn each grade is:
A
= 288 and up (90 - 100%)
B
= 248-287 (80 – 89.99%)
C
= 224-255 (70 – 79.99%)
D = 192-223 (60 –
69.99%)
F = 191 and under (below
60%)
There are 5 different ways to earn the points for this class: exams, practice exams, quizzes, experiment participation, and simulations.
200 points
4
exams at 50 points each
60
points 6 best of 8
in-class quizzes 10 points
each (lowest 2 grades dropped)
20
points 4 practice
exams at 5 points each
24
points 8 credits
of experiment participation
(each credit = about ½ hour of your time)
or completion of 6 research papers (we
strongly encourage research participation)
16 points 4
simulated experiments at 4 points each
320 points total
** In addition, you have the
opportunity to earn up to 27 points of extra
credit through additional participation in psychology experiments
and
simulations**
Exams:
Four NON-CUMULATIVE exams
will be given. The exam dates are listed in the course schedule. Each
exam will
contain 50 multiple choice questions.
Exam attendance is mandatory.
However, if you miss an exam, you will be allowed to take a make-up
exam. This
make up exam will be administered during
the regularly scheduled final exam time for this class meeting day and
time as
listed on the official university website.
I strongly recommend that you only take one make-up,
although you
can take up to two. If you miss more than two exams, you are strongly
encouraged to withdraw from the course.
Exam
Reading Assignments:
Exam 1: Chapters 1, 2, 4, 13
Exam 2: Chapters 3, 5, 6, 11
Exam 3: Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10
Exam 4: Chapters 12, 14, 15, 16
Quizzes:
Eight quizzes will be administered.
The dates are listed in the course schedule. Each quiz is worth 10
points.
However, I will drop your two lowest scores, so you can earn a maximum
of 60
points from these quizzes. I will not
administer make-up quizzes. If you miss more than 2 quizzes, you
will receive
a zero on each missed quiz, and it will count toward your final grade.
Simulations
and
Practice Exams:
Simulations and Practice
Exams will be accessed through the CENGAGE NOW website. The URL to
reach this
site is:
http://academic.cengage.com/login
Follow the attached
instructions to set up your account and register for the course. You
will need
an access code that comes with your purchase of the textbook. The site
also
includes a companion site to your textbook. This companion site offers
additional optional tasks (e.g., flashcards and puzzles) that you can
complete
to help you prepare for the Departmental Exams.
Simulations:
You will best tested over 4
REQUIRED Simulations on Wednesday, April 15th
Simulation 1 (Stroop Test)
Simulation 2 (Hemispheric
Specialization)
Simulation 6 (Memory
Processes II)
Simulation 8 (Measuring Creativity)
You can also do 3 OPTIONAL
Simulations for 1 point EXTRA CREDIT each
Simulation 10 (Social
Judgment)
Simulation 3 (The
Poggendorff Illusion)
Simulation 5 (Memory
Processes I)
All required simulations will
close and become unavailable at
Practice
Exams:
Practice exams must be
completed no later than the following deadlines:
Practice Exam 1: February 3rd
at 6:00 PM
Practice Exam 2: February 24th at 6:00 PM
Practice Exam 3: March 26th at 6:00 PM
Practice Exam 4: April 23rd at
Experiments:
The class has a research
requirement. The preferred way to
complete this requirement is for you to participate in 4 hours, or 8
credits,
of psychology experiments (1/2 hour participation = 1 credit). You will
earn 24
points by doing so. You must earn all 8
credits to receive the 24 points – this is
an all-or-none task. If you
earn 7 or fewer experimental credits, you
will receive no points.
However, once you have
accumulated 8 experiment credits you have the opportunity to earn extra credit points. You can do
this by participating in more
research and earning more research credits. For each research credit
that you
accumulate beyond the minimum requirement of 8, you will receive 3 points of extra credit. You can earn
up to 24 points of extra credit in
this manner. Just to be clear, the first 8 research credits get you 24
points;
each additional credit beyond 8 (up to 16 research credits total) earns
an
additional 3 points (a possible maximum of 48 points).
To sign up for experiments,
you will need to log on to the following website:
https://www.psych.uni.edu/pspm/niu
The website will provide you
with a list of available experiments, along with the locations and
meeting
times. You will be able to sign up for experiments, cancel experiments,
and
check your status with regards to how many points you have earned. To
help you
learn the online system, please read the student/participant section of
the
following manual:
www.psych.uni.edu/pspm/manual
Make sure you arrive on time,
or early, for all experiments you sign up for. After you have completed
the
experiment, you will be given a slip as proof of your participation in
the
experiment. Please keep them as back-up
proof of your participation.
PLEASE NOTE: If you sign up
for an experiment and do not show up, or if you are late for
the
experiment, you will lose one credit of
experiment participation. Therefore, if you have 8 credits and you
sign up
for an experiment and do not show up – you will be knocked down to 7
credits!
You can avoid this penalty by canceling the experiment online or
calling the
experimenter, prior to the start of the experiment. Also, you may not
participate in the same experiment twice.
You may choose not to
participate in experiments due to
legitimate moral concerns or religious concerns. You may also be too
young to
participate (you must be 18 years of age or older). If you
choose not to participate in the experiments, please see me
during the first week of the semester. We will discuss the
alternative to
participation in experiments, which involves a series of writing
assignments. These assignments ask you
to read research reports from the professional literature and to write
about
them.
T/TH Schedule –
Spring 2009, PSYC 102
Date Week Day Topic
T 13- Jan 1 1 Intro to the Class and Its Procedures (Tell It Like It
Is!) & Psychologists Gone Wild: It’s Only Fun If
You
Are Doing It
Right (Part 1)
TH 15-Jan
2
MASS TESTING
T 20-Jan 2 3 Psychologists Gone Wild: It’s Only Fun If You Are
Doing It Right (Part 2) & We Take All Responsibility for Any Permanent Damage:
Milgram’s
Obedience
to Authority Research
TH 22-Jan 4 To Help or Not To Help, That Is the Question:
Helping Behavior In Bystander Situations &
Was
Steve Fawcett’s Attempt to
Circumnavigate the Globe in a Hot Air Balloon Adventurous or Reckless?
Behavior
Interpretations and Judgments of Personality (Part 1)
T 27-Jan
3
5
LECTURE
QUIZ 1
Was Steve Fawcett’s Attempt to Circumnavigate
the Globe in a Hot Air Balloon Adventurous or
Reckless? Behavior Interpretations and Judgments of Personality (Part 2) & When Me is We: Group Identification and Its Consequences
TH 29-Jan 6 Grand Theft Auto: Some Data about the
Aftereffects of Exposure To Media Violence &
Mean
Girls: The Development of
Social Aggression (Part 1)
T 3-Feb 4 7 Mean Girls: The Development of Social Aggression
(Part 2) & Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child? The Parenting Controversy in the Context of the Child Development Data
DEADLINE FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE
EXAM 1
TH 5 -Feb 8 What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up? Careers
in
Psychology
T 10-Feb
5
9 DEPARTMENTAL EXAM 1 & LECTURE
QUIZ 2
TH 12-Feb 10 Born to be Wild? The Evolutionary View of
Psychology
& Scanners:
What Can We Learn About the Brain and About Thinking By Looking
at the
Brain While It Works? (Part 1)
T 17-Feb 6 11 Scanners: What Can We Learn About the Brain
and
About Thinking By Looking at
the Brain While It Works? (Part 2) & See Me…Feel Me….Touch Me…. Demos Exploring Sensation and Perception
TH 19-Feb
12 LECTURE
QUIZ 3
Subliminal Perception: What’s The Evidence,
What are The Implications? & Lying and Lie Detection: Techniques, Findings, and Implications (Part 1)
T 24-Feb 7 13 Lying and Lie Detection: Techniques, Findings,
and Implications (Part 2) & I Laughed So Hard I’ll Never Forget It: Relations Between Emotions and Memory
DEADLINE FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE EXAM 2
TH 26-Feb 14 It’s All About Me! The Self Motives and their
Effects: Self-Enhancement, Self-Protection, and
Self-Verification &/or Birds Do It, Bees Do It: The Role of Biology in Homosexual Orientations
T 3-Mar
8
15 DEPARTMENTAL EXAM 2 & LECTURE
QUIZ 4
TH 5-Mar 16 Drooling Dogs and a Clockwork Orange: Salivary
Conditioning Demo/Why is Classical Conditioning
Important?
& Some Real World Examples & Gold
Stars or M & M’s? The Use of Behavior Modification Principles in
the Real
World - Research Examples
T 10, TH 12
– Mar
SPRING BREAK
T 17-Mar 9 17 Ninety Days in the Hole … The (Un)Reliability of
Eyewitness Testimony, Change Blindness, and What These Mean For the Legal System &
Abducted By Aliens, Were You? The Power of Fabricated Memories (Part 1)
TH 19-Mar 18 Abducted By Aliens, Were You? The Power of
Fabricated
Memories (Part 2) &
The Geography of Thinking: Where You
Were Raised Might Affect How You Think
T 24-Mar
10
19 LECTURE
QUIZ 5
Hey, Baby, How You Doin’? - Decoding What Others Say & Pay no Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain…The Problem of Mental Control: Can We Suppress Thoughts and What Happens
When
We Do? (Part
1)
TH 26-Mar 20 Pay no Attention to the Man Behind the
Curtain…The Problem of Mental Control: Can We Suppress Thoughts and What Happens When We Do? (Part 2) & Run Every Kind of Test From A to Z, And You'll Still Know Nothing 'Bout Me: On The Predictive Validity of Achievement and IQ Tests and What It Means In Practice
DEADLINE FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE EXAM 3
T 31-Mar 11 21 Ethnicity Differences on Intelligence Tests: What
Are
The Data and
What Do They Mean?
TH 2-Apr
22
DEPARTMENTAL EXAM 3 & LECTURE
QUIZ 6
T 7-Apr 12 23 Social Chameleon or Self-Directed? The
Personality Concept of Self-Monitoring and What it Predicts & To Think or Not To Think? The Personality Construct of Need for Cognition and What it Predicts (Part 1)
TH 9-Apr 24 To Think or Not To Think? The Personality
Construct
of Need for Cognition
and What it Predicts (Part 2) & Accuracy in Perceiving the
Personality
Traits of Others: How Good Can We Be?
T 14-Apr* 13 25 Uncommon and Interesting Psychiatric Syndromes:
A Trip Through Psychology’s Back Alleys &/or
Rainman or Monk? The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Abnormal Behavior
*All Required Simulations Must Be Completed
by
TUESDAY (April 14th)
TH 16-Apr
26 LECTURE
SIMULATION
EXAM
T 21-Apr 14 27 A Look at Success in Treating Disorders: What
Gets “Cured” Easily and What Does Not? &/or
M’Naughten
or Nothin’? Determining
“Insanity” and Its Legal Implications
TH 23-Apr 28 Do It My Way: Perceived Control and Its Health
Implications &/or I Only Have Eyes For You: The Psychology of Organ Donation
DEADLINE FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE
EXAM 4
T 28-Apr
15
29 LECTURE
QUIZ 8
Course
Evaluations
TH 30-Apr
30 DEPARTMENTAL
EXAM 4
T/TH
5 or 7-May (FINALS WEEK)
DEPARTMENTAL
EXAM, SIMULATION EXAM MAKEUPS
M/W/F Schedule – Spring
2009, PSYC 102
Date Week Day Topic
M 12- Jan 1 1 Intro to the Class and Its Procedures (Tell It Like It
Is!)
W 14-Jan
2
MASS TESTING
F 16-Jan 3 Psychologists Gone Wild: It’s Only Fun If You Are
Doing
It Right
M 19-Jan
2
4
MLK
Day – No Class
W 21-Jan 5 We Take All Responsibility for Any Permanent
Damage: Milgram’s Obedience to Authority Research
F 23-Jan 6 To Help or Not To Help, That Is the Question:
Helping
Behavior In
Bystander Situations
M 26-Jan 3 7 Was Steve Fawcett’s Attempt to Circumnavigate
the Globe in a Hot Air Balloon Adventurous or Reckless? Behavior Interpretations and Judgments of Personality
W 28-Jan
8
LECTURE QUIZ 1
When Me is We: Group Identification and Its
Consequences
F 30-Jan 9 Grand Theft Auto: Some Data about the
Aftereffects of Exposure To Media Violence
M 2-Feb 4 10 Mean Girls: The Development of Social
Aggression
T 3-Feb
DEADLINE
FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE
EXAM 1
W 4 -Feb 11 Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child? The Parenting
Controversy
in the Context of the
Child Development Data
F 6-Feb 12 What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up? Careers
in Psychology
M 9-Feb
5
13
DEPARTMENTAL EXAM 1
W 11-Feb
14 LECTURE
QUIZ 2
Born to be Wild? The Evolutionary View of Psychology
F 13-Feb 15 Scanners: What Can We Learn About the Brain
and
About Thinking By Looking at
the Brain While It Works?
M 16-Feb 6 16 See Me…Feel Me….Touch Me…. Demos
Exploring
Sensation and Perception
W 18-Feb 17 Subliminal Perception: What’s The Evidence,
What
are The Implications?
F 20-Feb
18 LECTURE
QUIZ 3
Lying and Lie Detection: Techniques, Findings, and Implications
M 23-Feb 7 19 I Laughed So Hard I’ll Never Forget It: Relations
Between Emotions and Memory
T 24-Feb
DEADLINE
FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE
EXAM 2
W 25-Feb 20 It’s All About Me! The Self Motives and their
Effects: Self-Enhancement, Self-Protection, and Self-Verification
F 27-Feb 21 Birds Do It, Bees Do It: The Role of Biology in
Homosexual Orientations
M 2-Mar
8
22 DEPARTMENTAL EXAM 2
W 4-Mar
23 LECTURE
QUIZ 4
Drooling
Dogs and a Clockwork
Conditioning
Demo/Why is Classical
Conditioning Important? Some Real World
Examples
F 6-Mar 24 Gold Stars or M & M’s? The Use of Behavior
Modification
Principles in the
Real World - Research Examples
M 9, W 11, F
13 – Mar
SPRING BREAK
M 16-Mar 9 25 Ninety Days in the Hole … The (Un)Reliability of
Eyewitness Testimony, Change Blindness, and What These Mean For the Legal System
W 18-Mar 26 Abducted By Aliens, Were You? The Power of
Fabricated
Memories
F 20-Mar 27 The Geography of Thinking: Where You Were
Raised
Might Affect
How You Think
M 23-Mar
10
28 LECTURE
QUIZ 5
Hey, Baby, How You Doin’? - Decoding What
Others
Say
W 25-Mar 29 Pay no Attention to the Man Behind the
Curtain…The Problem of Mental Control: Can We Suppress Thoughts and What Happens When We Do?
TH 26-Mar
DEADLINE
FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE
EXAM 3
F 27-Mar 30 Run Every Kind of Test From A to Z, And You'll
Still
Know Nothing 'Bout Me: On The Predictive
Validity of Achievement and
IQ Tests and What It Means In Practice
M 30-Mar 11 31 Ethnicity Differences on Intelligence Tests: What
Are
The Data and
What Do They Mean?
W
F
Social Chameleon or Self-Directed? The
Personality Concept of Self-Monitoring and What it Predicts
M 6-Apr 12 34 To Think or Not To Think? The Personality
Construct of Need for Cognition and What it Predicts
W
Others: How Good Can We Be?
F 10-Apr 36 Uncommon and Interesting Psychiatric Syndromes:
A Trip Through Psychology’s Back Alleys
M 13-Apr 13 37 Rainman or Monk? The Role of Culture in the
Emergence
of Abnormal
Behavior
TUESDAY (April 14th)
W 15-Apr
38 LECTURE
F
Gets
“Cured” Easily
and What Does Not?
M 20-Apr 14 40 M’Naughten or Nothin’? Determining “Insanity”
and
Its Legal Implications
W 22-Apr 41 Do It My Way: Perceived Control and Its Health
Implications
TH 23-Apr
DEADLINE
FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE
EXAM 4
F 24-Apr 42 I Only Have Eyes For You: The Psychology of
Organ
Donation
M 27-Apr
15
43 LECTURE
QUIZ 8
Course
Evaluations
W
TH 30-Apr
M/W
4 or 6-May (FINALS WEEK)
DEPARTMENTAL
EXAM, SIMULATION EXAM MAKEUPS
M/W Schedule
– Spring
2009, PSYC 102
Date Week Day Topic
M 12- Jan 1 1 Intro to the Class and Its Procedures (Tell It Like It
Is!)
& Psychologists Gone
Wild: It’s Only Fun If You Are Doing It Right (Part
1)
W 14-Jan
2
MASS TESTING
M 19-Jan
2
3
MLK
Day – No Class
W 21-Jan 4 Psychologists Gone Wild: It’s Only Fun If You Are
Doing It Right (Part 2) & We Take All Responsibility for Any Permanent Damage:
Milgram’s
Obedience
to Authority Research
M 26-Jan 3 5 To Help or Not To Help, That Is the Question:
Helping Behavior In Bystander Situations &
Was Steve Fawcett’s Attempt to Circumnavigate the Globe in a Hot Air Balloon Adventurous or Reckless? Behavior Interpretations and Judgments of Personality (Part 1)
W 28-Jan
6
LECTURE QUIZ 1
Was Steve Fawcett’s Attempt to Circumnavigate the Globe in a Hot Air Balloon Adventurous or Reckless? Behavior Interpretations and Judgments of Personality (Part 2) & When Me is We: Group Identification and Its Consequences
M 2-Feb 4 7 Grand Theft Auto: Some Data about the
Aftereffects of Exposure To Media Violence &/or
Mean Girls: The Development of Social Aggression
T 3-Feb
DEADLINE
FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE
EXAM 1
W 4 -Feb 8 Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child? The Parenting
Controversy
in the Context of the
Child Development Data &/or What Do I Want to Be When I Grow Up?
Careers in
Psychology
M 9-Feb
5
9 DEPARTMENTAL EXAM 1 & LECTURE
QUIZ 2
W 11-Feb 10 Born to be Wild? The Evolutionary View of
Psychology
& Scanners: What Can We Learn About
the Brain and About Thinking
By Looking at the Brain While It Works? (Part 1)
M 16-Feb 6 11 Scanners: What Can We Learn About the Brain
and
About Thinking By Looking at
the Brain While It Works? (Part 2) & See Me…Feel Me….Touch Me…. Demos Exploring Sensation and Perception
W 18-Feb
12 LECTURE
QUIZ 3
Subliminal
Perception: What’s The Evidence, What are
The Implications?
& Lying and Lie Detection:
Techniques, Findings, and Implications (Part 1)
M 23-Feb 7 13 Lying and Lie Detection: Techniques, Findings,
and Implications (Part 2) & I Laughed So Hard I’ll Never Forget It: Relations Between Emotions and Memory
T 24-Feb
DEADLINE
FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE
EXAM 2
W 25-Feb 14 It’s All About Me! The Self Motives and their
Effects: Self-Enhancement, Self-Protection, and Self-Verification &/or Birds Do It, Bees Do It: The Role of Biology in Homosexual Orientations
M 2-Mar
8
15 DEPARTMENTAL EXAM 2 & LECTURE
QUIZ 4
W 4-Mar 16 Drooling Dogs and a Clockwork Orange: Salivary
Conditioning Demo/Why is Classical Conditioning Important? Some Real World Examples &/or
Gold
Stars or M & M’s? The Use
of Behavior Modification Principles in the Real World - Research
Examples
M 9, W 11 –
Mar
SPRING BREAK
M 16-Mar 9 17 Ninety Days in the Hole … The (Un)Reliability of
Eyewitness Testimony, Change Blindness, and What These Mean For the Legal System &
Abducted By Aliens, Were You? The Power of Fabricated Memories (Part 1)
W 18-Mar 18 Abducted By Aliens, Were You? The Power of
Fabricated
Memories (Part 2) &
The Geography of Thinking: Where You
Were Raised Might Affect How You Think
M 23-Mar
10
19 LECTURE
QUIZ 5
Hey,
Baby, How You Doin’? -
Decoding What Others Say & Pay no Attention to the Man Behind the
Curtain…The
Problem of Mental Control: Can We Suppress Thoughts and What Happens
When We
Do? (Part 1)
W 25-Mar 20 Pay no Attention to the Man Behind the
Curtain…The Problem of Mental Control: Can We Suppress Thoughts and What Happens When We Do? (Part 2) & Run Every Kind of Test From A to Z, And You'll Still Know Nothing 'Bout Me: On The Predictive Validity of Achievement and IQ Tests and What It Means In Practice
TH 26-Mar
DEADLINE
FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE
EXAM 3
M 30-Mar 11 21 Ethnicity Differences on Intelligence Tests: What
Are
The Data and
What Do They Mean?
W 1-Apr
22
DEPARTMENTAL EXAM 3 & LECTURE
QUIZ 6
M 6-Apr 12 23 Social Chameleon or Self-Directed? The
Personality Concept of Self-Monitoring and What it Predicts & To Think or Not To Think? The Personality Construct of Need for Cognition and What it Predicts (Part 1)
W 8-Apr 24 To Think or Not To Think? The Personality
Construct
of Need for Cognition
and What it Predicts (Part 2) & Accuracy in Perceiving the
Personality
Traits of Others: How Good Can We Be?
M 13-Apr 13 25 Uncommon and Interesting Psychiatric Syndromes:
A Trip Through Psychology’s Back Alleys &/or
Rainman or Monk? The Role of Culture in the Emergence of Abnormal Behavior
T
14-Apr*
*All
Required Simulations Must Be Completed by
TUESDAY (April 14th)
W 15-Apr
26 LECTURE
SIMULATION
EXAM
M 20-Apr 14 27 A Look at Success in Treating Disorders: What
Gets “Cured” Easily and What Does Not? &/or
M’Naughten
or Nothin’? Determining
“Insanity” and Its Legal Implications
W 22-Apr 28 Do It My Way: Perceived Control and Its Health
Implications &/or I Only Have Eyes For You: The Psychology of Organ Donation
TH 23-Apr
DEADLINE
FOR COMPLETING PRACTICE
EXAM 4
M 27-Apr
15
29 LECTURE
QUIZ 8
Course
Evaluations
W 29-Apr
30 DEPARTMENTAL
EXAM 4
TH 30-Apr
M/W
4 or 6-May (FINALS WEEK)