Class Meetings

Class Meetings (You are responsible for these readings!!)

Research and Goals of Psychology 

Week of:

01/25               Syllabus, Blackboard/Website, and Expectations

                        Decide on Research Paper Topic                                  

                        Choose Debate Issues

02/01               Quiz 1 is due 02/05 midnight

                        PSYCH:  Chapter 1

                        Theories, Research Methods

Biological Processes

02/08               PSYCH: Chapter 2, 4, and 5

                        “The Brain” Movie

02/15                No class Monday – 2/15  Brain Questions due 2/19 by midnight

Human Development

                        PSYCH: Chapter 3

                        Lifespan

                        Piaget, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Erikson, Attachment

Parenting Styles

02/22               Quiz 2 is due 02/26 midnight

                        Continue Human Development         

Learning       

03/01               Quiz 3 is due 03/05 midnight

                         PSYCH: Chapter 6   Hand in writing center verification

                           form for paper

                        Operant Conditioning

                        Classical Conditioning

                        Social Learning

Memory and Language

03/08               Quiz 4 is due 03/12 midnight

                        PSYCH: Chapter 7 and 8

                        Processes and stages of memory

                        Thinking, Language, and Cognition

03/15                SPRING BREAK

Motivation and Emotion

03/22               Paper is due 3/26 by midnight

                        PSYCH: Chapter 9 

                        Hunger, Sex, Emotion 

Stress, Health, and Adjustment                              

03/29               No class Friday 4/2

                        Quiz 5 is due 04/02 midnight

                        PSYCH: Chapter 10

                        What is stress and the effects of stress on mind and body

Mental Health and DSM IV

04/05               Quiz 6 is due 04/09 midnight

                        PSYCH: Chapter 12

                        Mental Health issues, DSM IV, Psychological Orders

                         PSYCH: Chapter 14

                        Humanist, Aversion, Cognitive, Behavioral, Regression

04/12               Continue Mental Health

04/19               No class Monday                  

                        Presentations : April 21 – May 7

05/10                  Final Exam: TBA