CLASS MESSAGES
Please regularly check the message page for any updates or changes in the class.

12/1: The Final Paper (Paper 6) is now available and the paper is due Friday Dec. 9th.

11/27:  Quiz 7 is available until Monday, Dec. 5, 2011.  Remember, no class on Tuesday, only individual meetings.

11/21: Paper 5 (Greek Philosophy) is available. We will discuss its due date in class

11/17: The pdf for Lecture 20 has been updated.  Quiz 6 and Paper 4 (Philosophical Foundations) are due on Sunday Nov. 20th.

11/6: Quiz 6 is available and due on Nov. 19th and the requirements for Paper 4 (Philosophical Foundations) have been updated.

I have also linked to an article on Michael Gazzaniga's discussion on neuroscience and a recent and very serious case of scientific fraud by a psychologist.

10/25:  The Outline for Paper 3 is available.

10/23:  Quiz 5 and Paper 3 are due on Monday Oct. 31st  at midnight.  The grades as of the take home test are now posted on WebCT/Blackboard.
 

10/13:  The account of Darwin's emerging ideas was documented in a book by Howard      
            Gruber and Paul Barrett (1974) titled, Darwin on man: A psychological study of   
             scientific creativity (NYC Dutton).  An early version is here (Gruber & Gruber, 1962)

9/26:  I have been busy on the class web site and related activities. I updated
          grades on WebCT, fixed the link to the Gergen article, updated the
          midterm take home exam, and set up Quiz 4. I loaded a new paper on
          Hebb's contribution for those who are interested. I made a link to Szasz's  
          The Myth of Mental Illness, a paper I mentioned in class. I also mentioned
          and have created a link to Robert Rosenhan's On Being Sane in
          Insane Places.  Both these papers challenge the traditional medical model
          of mental illness. 
 

9/20:  Grades on WebCT are now available.

9/15:  Quiz 2 is reopened until Saturday (9/17) and Quiz 3 is available and
         open until next Friday (9/23).  Note Quiz 3 is based on Chapters 18-21
         and Lectures 3 to 6.  It does not include Cultural-Contextual Psychology.
 

8/30:  Just a reminder that Paper 1 is due on Monday 9/5. Quiz 1 is reopened
          to Friday (9/2) and Quiz 2 is open until next Friday (9/9). Remember,
          you must score 100% on a quiz for it to count.

          The following except is from John Garcia's (2003, p. 70)
          autobiographical account of his seminal work on Conditioned Taste
          Aversion (CTA). To download the entire chapter, click here.

                             
                From Garcia, J. (2003). Psychology is not an enclave.  In R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), Psychologists defying the
                crowd: Stories of those who battled the establishment and won (pp. 67-77) Washington, DC, US:
                American Psychological Association

8/24:  Please note that Assignment 1 is posted and due in a week. Also,
         as mentioned in class, the Association of Psychological Science (the
         more research-oriented psychological organization) published a
         scathing attack on training in clinical psychology (APS, 2008) to which
         the American Psychological Association (the more clinically-oriented
         organization) responded (Price 2009).

8/22: Just a reminder that  Quiz 1 (the course and syllabus quiz) is available
         and due on Friday 8/26 at midnight.