SYLLABUS

August 23  INTRODUCTION

August 25 ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS I

Kosslyn, Chapter 1

August 30  ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS II

Stanovich, Chapters 1-6

Questions today

September 1 ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS III

Stanovich, Chapters 7-12

Questions today

September 6 LEVELS OF ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF VIOLENCE

Anderson, "Heat and violence" (reserve)

Bernhardt, "Influences of serotonin and testosterone in aggression and dominance: Convergence with social psychology." (reserve)

Questions today

September 8 Levels of Aanalysis: Violence

September 13 NEUROPSYCHOLOGY: NEURONS & NEUROTRANSMITTERS

Kosslyn, Chapter 2

Kolb, "Brain plasticity and behavior" (reserve)

Questions today

September 15 NEUOPSYCHOLOGY: BRAIN PARTS

Neuroimaging primer

September 20 HEREDITY

Berkowitz, A. "Our genes, ourselves" on-line

Pinker, The Blank Slate, Part 1, pp. 1-72 (reserve)

Optional: Pinker lecture on Blank Slate (click on play now)

September 22 HEREDITY

Brown, "Optimizing expression of the common human genome for child development" (reserve)

September 27 HEREDITY

September 29 LEARNING

Koslyn, Chapter 4

October 4 EXAM

October 6 PERCEPTION (Guest lecture: Prof. Pomerantz)

Kossyln, Chapter 3

October 11 VACATION -- NO CLASS

October 13 MEMORY: BASIC MECHANISMS

Kosslyn, Chapter 5

October 18 MEMORY DISTORTIONS

Arrigo & Pezek, "Lessons from the study of psychogenic amnesia" (reserve)

Loftus, "Memory for a past that never was" (reserve)

Roediger & McDermott, "Tricks of memory" (reserve)

October 20 INTELLIGENCE

Kosslyn, Chapter 6 (portion on intelligence only)

Herrnstein & Murray, The Bell Curve, pp 1-50 (reserve)

October 25  PERSONALITY

Kosslyn, Chapter 8

October 27 EXAM II

November 1 DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES

Kosslyn, Chapter 9

November 3 DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES -- INFANCY

Gopnik, et al, Chapters 1-3

November 8 DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES -- INFANCY

Gopnik, et al., Chapters 4-7

November 10  GENDER DIFFERENCES

Eagly & Wood, "Explaining sex differences in social behavior: A meta-analytic perspective" (reserve)

November 15 GENDER DIFFERENCES AND HOMOSEXUALITY

Is homosexuality a choice? Genes and Biology (optional reading)

Reasons to believe homosexuality has a partial genetic basis (optional)

November 17 MENTAL ILLNESS

Kosslyn, Chapter 11

Solomon, The Noonday Demon, pp 39-99 (reserve)

November 22 TREATMENT AND THERAPY

Kosslyn, Chapter 12

Wegner, "When the antidote is the poison: Ironic mental control processes" (reserve)

November 24 VACATION -- NO CLASS

November 29 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Kosslyn, Chapter 13

The Stanford Prison Experiment

December 1 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY -- STEREOTYPES & PREJUDICE

Steele, "A threat in the air: How stereotypes shape intellectual identity and performance" (reserve)

Chapter 1 (Schneider)

Implicit Attitudes Test (IAT)

December 8 FINAL EXAM (9 a.m.-12 p.m.)