Lectures
The material for each lecture is outlined along with the corresponding textbook sections. Download each lecture outline and bring it to class to keep track of the lectures and organize your notes.
The lectures are also available as web-based versions of the PowerPoint slides used in class and as pdf versions for downloading. The dates of each lecture are listed on the calendar by lecture number. Keep checking class announcements to note changes in the sequence of lectures.
Downloading and reviewing the lecture outlines or slides is NOT a substitute for attending lectures. My style is to discuss the lectures that I have prepared, not read them as prepared. I encourage questions, discussions, disagreements, extensions, or any other comments you choose to make. The discussion is the piece you can not get if you do not come to class. I guarantee that you can not do well in the course without attending!
Folk and Scientific Psychology (Chapter
1 and Appendix)
Outline
Lectures
1. Introduction
pdf
2.
Folk Psychology
pdf
3.
Theories of Scientific Psychology
pdf
Table
of Theories
4. Methods
of Scientific Psychology pdf
Written Assignment 1
Behaviorism (Chapter 7)
Outline
Lectures
5. Behavioral
Approach
pdf
(Principles of
Behaviorism: Big Bang Theory)
6. Operant
Conditioning pdf (Video:
Skinner on Reinforcement)
7.
Classical Conditioning
pdf
(Video: Watson
with Little Albert) (Video:
Pavlov and his Dog)
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8.
Limitations of
Behaviorism
pdf
(Video: Bandura on
the Bobo Doll Experiment)
Essays and
Study Guide for Exam 1
Neuroscience and Consciousness (Chapters
2 and 3)
Outline
Lectures (Figure
1)
9.
Mind, Body, & Behavior
pdf
(adolescent
brain development)
10. Biological Basis of Behavior
pdf
(brain chemistry and gambling)
11. Neural Communication pdf
(Video:
Neurons and Neurotransmitters)
12. CNS
tour
pdf Figure
2
13.
Brain, Consciousness, and Behavior
pdf (Video: The Man with 2 Brains)
(Brain
and Crime)
Sensation/Perception (Chapter 6)
Outline
Lectures
14:
The Mathematics
and Physics of Experience
pdf
15:
Sensation
pdf
16:
Perception
pdf
(illusions)
Written Assignment 2
Essays and Study Guide for Exam 2
Memory (Chapter 8)
Outline
Lectures
17:
Cognitive Approach
pdf
(May 12, 1997, A Day that Changed the World?)
18: Memory models
pfd
(Deja Vu)
19:
Acquiring, Storing, and
Retrieving pdf
Reasoning (Chapters 9, 15)
Outline
Lectures
20: Thinking and irrationality pdf
(Irrational Thinking)
Essay 3
Social and Genetic and Influences (Chapters 4, 9, 10, & 15)
Outline
Lectures
21: Socio-Cultural Perspective:
Roles and Norms pdf
(Milgram
Experiment Video) (Ashe
Experiment Video)
22 Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics
pdf
(Evolutionary
Psychology)
23: Love and
Sex
pdf
(Evolution
and Love) (Staying Married)
Essays and Study
Guide
for Exam 3
Personality
(Chapter 12)
Outline
Lectures
24: Personality: Traits
pdf Personality
Page
25: Personality: Social Learning, Humanistic & Socio-Cultural Perspectives
pdf
26: Personality: Freudian Perspective pdf
Development
(Chapter 4)
Outline
Lectures
27: Infancy
pdf
28:
Childhood and Adolescence
pdf
Psychological Disorders (Chapter 13)
Outline
Lectures
29: Abnormality: Introduction
pdf
30: Abnormality: Depression & suicide
pdf
31: Abnormality: Anxiety
and schizophrenia pdf
Written
Assignment 4
Therapy (Chapter 14)
Outline
Lectures
32. Psychotherapy: Assumptions and techniques
pdf
33.
Biological therapy:
Drugs and behavior pdf (NIMH
Study)
Essays and
Study Guide
Exam 4