Lectures
The material for each lecture is outlined along with the corresponding textbook sections linked. 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 (they are also available as pdf handouts). 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. When reviewing the PowerPoint slides, you may wish to set the presentation to full screen to see available animation. I WILL EXPECT THAT YOU WILL DOWNLOAD AND REVIEW THE RELEVANT LECTURE BEFORE CLASS.
Downloading and reviewing the
lecture outlines or slides is not a substitute for attending lectures.
I guarantee that you can not do well in the course
without attending!
Folk and Scientific Psychology (Chapter
1)
Outline
Lectures
1. Introduction
(pdf)
2.
Folk Psychology (pdf)
3.
Theories of Scientific Psychology (Table
of Theories) (pdf)
4. Methods
of Scientific Psychology (pdf)
Assignment 1
Behaviorism and Conditioning (Chapter
5)
Outline
Lectures
5. Behavioral
Approach (pdf)
6. Operant
Conditioning (Video) (pdf)
7.
Classical Conditioning (pdf)
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8.
Limitations of
Behaviorism (pdf)
Assignment 2
Study Guide for Exam 1
Biological Perspective
(Chapter 4)
Outline
Lectures (Figure
1)
9.
Mind, Body, & Behavior (pdf)
10. Biological Basis of Behavior (pdf)
11. Neural Communication
(pdf)
12. CNS
tour
(Figure
2) (pdf)
13.
Brain and Behavior (Video)
(Brain
and Crime) (pdf)
Assignment 3
Sensation/Perception (Chapter 6)
Outline
Lectures
14:
Mathematics
and Physics of Experience (pdf)
15:
Sensation (pdf)
16:
Perception (pdf)
Assignment 4
Study
Guide for Exam 2
Memory (Chapter 6)
Outline
Lectures
17:
Cognitive Approach (May
12, 1997, A Day that Changed the World?) (pdf)
18: Memory models
(Deja Vu)
(pdf)
19:
Acquiring, Storing, and
Retrieving
(pdf)
Assignment 5
Thinking and Rationality (Chapter 7, 12)
Outline
Lectures
20a: Thinking and irrationality (Heuristics and biases) (pdf)
20b:
Barriers to Rationality (pdf)
Assignment 6
Social and Genetic and Influences (Chapters 8, 15, & 16)
Outline
Lectures
21: Socio-Cultural Perspective:
Roles and Norms (pdf)
22 Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Genetics
(pdf)
23a,b: Love and
Sex (Evolution
and Love) (Staying Married)
(pdf)
Study
guide
for Exam 3
Personality
(Chapter 2)
Outline
Lectures
24: Personality: Traits
(Personality
Page)
25: Personality: Social Learning, Humanistic & Socio-Cultural Perspectives
26: Personality: Freudian Perspective
Assignment 6
Developmental
(Chapter 3)
Outline
Lectures
27: Infancy
28a,b:
Childhood and Adolescence
Assignment 7
Psychopathology (Chapter 11)
Outline
Lectures
29: Abnormality: Introduction
30: Abnormality: Depression & suicide
31: Abnormality: Anxiety
and schizophrenia
Treatment (Chapter 12)
Outline
Lectures
32.
Psychotherapy: Assumptions and
techniques
33.
Biological therapy:
Drugs and behavior
Assignment 8
Study
guide
Exam 4