PSYC 121 - Introductory Psychology (honors)

General Information

• Syllabus: 10am    1pm

• Link to Extra Credit Instructions

• Sample Quiz

• Good Neuron Animation Site

• Drugs and Neurotransmission Animation

• Schedules of Reinforcement: Practice    Key

Required Writing

• Assignment #1

      -Articles for the introduction section:

          Opinions and social pressure.  Asch, Solomon E.; Scientific American, 193(5), 1955. pp. 31-35.

              Mimicry and Prosocial Behavior.  van Baaren, Rick B.; Holland, Rob W.; Kawakami, Kerry; Psychological

                     Science, Vol 15(1), Jan 2004. pp. 71-74.

              Crafting normative messages to protect the environment.  Cialdini, Robert B.; Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol 12(4), Aug 2003. pp. 105-109.

   

• Assignment #2

Quiz and Exam Expectations

• Introduction / History

• Science     

• Mind Is Matter

• Location, Location, Location

• Perception vs. Reality: Drugs, Dreams, and Dissociative Experiences

• Always Something There to Remind Me: Memory

• Learned and Inherited Individual Differences

• Psychopathology and Treatment

• Running with the Pack: Social Psychology