SYLLABUS

August 29  INTRODUCTION

August 31 ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS I

Kosslyn, Chapter 1

September 5   ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS II

Stanovich, Chapters 1-6

http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/jonathan.koehler/articles/2003_JSEP.pdf

Questions today

September 7 ASKING AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS III

Stanovich, Chapters 7-12

Questions today

September 12 LEVELS OF ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF VIOLENCE

Anderson, "Heat and violence" (on-line)

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

Questions today

September 14 NEUROPSYCHOLOGY: NEURONS & NEUROTRANSMITTERS

Kosslyn, Chapter 2

Kolb, "Brain plasticity and behavior" (on-line)

Questions today

September 19 NEUOPSYCHOLOGY: BRAIN PARTS

Neuroimaging primer (on line)

September 21 HEREDITY

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

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

September 26 HEREDITY

Brown, "Optimizing expression of the common human genome for child development" (on-line)

September 28 Evolutionary Psychology

Evans & Zarate

October 3 EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY

October 5 EXAM

October 10 PERCEPTION (Guest lecture: Prof. Pomerantz)

Kossyln, Chapter 3

October 12 LEARNING

Kosslyn Chapter 4

October 17 VACATION -- NO CLASS

October 19 MEMORY: BASIC MECHANISMS

Kosslyn, Chapter 5

October 24 MEMORY DISTORTIONS

Arrigo & Pezek, "Lessons from the study of psychogenic amnesia" (on-line)

Loftus, "Memory for a past that never was" (on-line)

Roediger & McDermott, "Tricks of memory" (on-line)

October 26 INTELLIGENCE

Kosslyn, Chapter 6 (portion on intelligence only)

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

October 31   PERSONALITY

Kosslyn, Chapter 8

November 2 EXAM II

November 7 DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES

Kosslyn, Chapter 9

November 9 DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES -- INFANCY

Gopnik, et al, Chapters 1-3

November 14 DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES -- INFANCY

Gopnik, et al., Chapters 4-7

November 16  GENDER DIFFERENCES

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

November 21 GENDER DIFFERENCES AND HOMOSEXUALITY

Is homosexuality a choice? Genes and Biology (optional)

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

November 23 VACATION -- NO CLASS

November 28 MENTAL ILLNESS

Kosslyn, Chapter 11

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

November 30 TREATMENT AND THERAPY

Kosslyn, Chapter 12

Wegner, "When the antidote is the poison: Ironic mental control processes" (on-line)

December 5 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Kosslyn, Chapter 13

The Stanford Prison Experiment

December 7 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY -- STEREOTYPES & PREJUDICE

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

Schneider, Psychology of Stereotyping, Chapter 1 (reserve)

Implicit Attitudes Test (IAT)

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