PSYC 121 - Introductory Psychology (honors)

General Information

• Syllabus:   10am    

• Link to Extra Credit Instructions

• Sample Quiz

• Good Neuron Animation Site

• Drugs and Neurotransmission Animation

Required Writing

• 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.

Required Presentation

• Pecha Kucha blurb from Wired magazine and example

• A pecha kucha about pecha kucha:

Quiz and Exam Expectations

• Introduction / History

• Science     

• Mind Is Matter: The Cellular Basis of the Brain

• Location, Location, Location: Localization of Function

• Perception and Reality: Consciousness

• Whatcha Want: Motivation

• Always Something There to Remind Me: Learning and Memory

• Who Are You: Environmental and Inherited Individual Differences

• Trouble in Paradise: Diagnosis and Treatment of Psychopathology

• Running with the Pack: Social Psychology

• Step by Step: Psychological Development