Psychology 10, Fall 2006
Professor Halford H. Fairchild
Office:  203 Scott Hall, Pitzer College
Hours:  Wednesdays 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 and by appointment
Phone:  909-607-3056

Course Syllabus
(Note:  This syllabus is online and is to be updated regularly with notes and other items of interest.  Students should visit the online version regularly.)

Texts:  Essentials of Psychology, Third Edition, by Douglas A. Bernstein.  Student Resources:  Click Here!
Addicted to War, by Joel Andreas
Forty Studies that Changed Psychology, by Roger Hock (Prentice Hall)

Date	Topic	Readings
8/29/06	Introductions and Course Overview
8/31/06	What is Psychology?  Lecture Notes	Chapter 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology Research Methods (powerpoint)
9/5/06	Biology and Behavior Quiz	Chapter 2 Four Amazing Ideas in Psychobiology
9/7/06	Readings in Biology & Human Behavior	Gazzaniga, M.S.  (1967).  The split brain in man.  (Hock, pp. 2-11). Rosenzweig, et al.  (1972).  Brain changes in response to experience (Hock, pp. 12-20) Fairchild's SR Paper on these readings
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9/12/06	Sensation and Perception Film Notes Today's Quiz New Film Notes for '06	Chapter 3:  Lecture Notes Bonus Notes: What is Black Psychology?
9/13/06	Event	Intercollegiate Dept. of Asian Studies & Center for Asian Pacific American Studies Open House - 4:15 - 6:00 pm, Mead Hall Courtyard.
9/14/06	Readings in Sensation & Perception	Turnbull, C.M.  (1961).  Some observations regarding the experiences and behavior of the BaMouti Pygmies.  (Hock, pp. 35-41.) Gibson, E.J. & Walk, R.D. (1960).  The "visual cliff."  (Hock, pp. 26-33.) Fairchild's SR Paper on these readings Today's News: Death Toll Soars in Baghdad
9/19/06	Consciousness:  Today's Quiz	Chapter 4:  Instructor's Chapter Outline & Notes Powerpoint Lecture Readings: Hypnosis & Healing. Brain Images and Consciousness Notice: The Intercollegiate Dept. of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies - Open House & Reception - Hampton Room at Scripps College, 4-6 pm.
9/21/06	Readings in Consciousness Fairchild's SR Paper Bibliography on Hypnosis (and extra credit opportunity)	Aserinsky & Kleitman (1953).  Regularly occurring periods of eye mobility and concomitant phenomena during sleep; and Dement, W. (1960.  The effect of sleep deprivation. (Hock, pp. 41-48) Hobson & McCarley (1977).  The brain as a dream-state generator:  An activation-synthesis hypothesis of the dream process.  (Hock, pp. 48-55). Spanos, N.P.  (1982).  Hypnotic behavior: A cognitive, social, psychological perspective.  (Hock, pp. 55-63.)
9/22/06	Cognitive Brown Bag Lunch	The Cognitive psychology program at CGU hosts a "brown bag" lunch presentation. Todays is by Gedeon Deak, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSD. "Do I see What you see? How infants learn to share attention." ACB 211, 12:00 - 1:30. Do an S/R on the talk, and receive up to 50 extra credit points.
9/26/06	Learning     Today's Quiz	Chapter 5 - Powerpoint Notes
9/28/06	Readings in Learning Psychology Fairchild's S/R Paper for these readings	Pavlov, I.P. (1927).  Conditioned reflexes.  (Hock, pp. 64-71.) Watson, J.B., & Raynor, R. (1920). Conditioned emotional responses.  (Hock, pp. 71-77). Skinner, B.F. (1948).  Superstition in the pigeon.  (Hock, pp. 77-84.) Bandura, A., Ross, D., & Ross, S.A. (1961).  Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models.  (Hock, pp. 84-92.) Bonus, Extra Credit Reading: Iraq War Fuels Terrorism, LA Times, 9-24-06
	Extra Reading - News	Terror Study (LA Times 9/27/06); Declassified Terror Study (9/27/06): PDF
10/3/06	Memory - Quiz Powerpoint Notes	Chapter 6 - Optional Readings: Memories of Child Abuse (from APA Monitor) 7 Sins of Memory (from APA Monitor) Keeping_Aging_Minds_Sharp (from APA Monitor) Music Training and Memory
10/5/06	Readings in Memory. (Note: We are out-of-order with the text, a bit.)	Tolman, E.C.  (1948).  Cognitive maps in rats and men.  (Hock, pp. 109-116). Loftus, E.F. (1972).  Leading questions and the eyewitness report.  (Hock, pp. 116-125) Fairchild's SR paper for today
10/5/06	Special Event: Boycott Business as Usual	The World Can't Wait March in Pershing Square, Los Angeles.
10/10/06	Thought, Language and Intelligence Instructor's Notes	Chapter 7:  Today's Quiz Bonus Notes: Scientific Racism
10/12/06	Readings in Thought, Language, and Intelligence Fairchild's SR	Rosenthal, R., & Jacobson, L. (1968).  Teachers' expectancies:  Determinates of pupils' I.Q. gains.  (Hock, pp. 93-100). Gardner, H. (1983). Frames of mind: The theory of multiple intelligences.  NY: Basic Books.  (Hock, pp. 100-109). Fairchild, H.H. (2001, Feb 26).  SAT's 'Halo Effect' casts a long shadow.  LA Times, p. B7. Fairchild, H.H. (2002, Feb 24).  SAT: the sacred cow of higher education.  Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, p. A21.    Letters on the Sacred Cow Bonus Reading: A Mom Suspected Spinach (shows a unique problem solving strategry, from The Los Angeles Times, Monday October 9, 2006) [An SR on this last reading earns 25 extra credit points.]
10/17/06	Fall Break
10/19/06	Motivation and Emotion Instructor's Notes Instructor's S/R Paper for today	Chapter 8 Masters, W.H. & Johnson, V.E. (1966).  Human sexual response.  (Hock, pp. 158-168) Ekman, P., & Friesan, W.V. (1971).  Constants across cultures in the face and emotion.  (Hock, pp. 168-175). Lipton, Eric. Faces, too, are searched as U.S. Airports try to spot terrorists (NY Times, August 17, 2006).
10/24/06	Human Development Lecture Notes Film Notes	Chapter 9 - Today's Quiz History of Cesarean Section
10/26/06	Readings in Human Development Fairchld's SR paper	Harlow, H.F. (158).  The nature of love.  (Hock, pp. 126-134) Piaget, J. (1954).  The development of object concept.  (Hock, pp. 134-142) Kohlberg, L.  (1963).  The development of children's orientations toward a moral order: Sequence in the development of moral thought.  Vita Humana, 6, 11-33.  (Hock, pp. 142-150) Langer, E.G., & Rodin, J.  (1976).  The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged:  A field experiment in an institutional setting.  (Hock, pp. 150-157).
10/31/06	Health, Stress, and Coping Group Exercise	Chapter 10 - Bonus Reading: Children of Gay parents Today's quiz
11/2/06	Readings in Health, Stress and Coping  (Not in straight page order) Fairchild's SR Paper	Holmes, T.H., & Rahe, R.H.  (1967).  The social readjustment rating scale.  (Hock, pp. 175-183) Friedman, M., & Rosenman, R.H.  (1959).  Association of specific overt behavior pattern with blood and cardiovascular findings.  (Hock, pp. 209-217) Seligman, M.E.P., & Maier, S.F.  (1967).  Failure to escape traumatic shock.  (Hock, pp. 242-249).
11/7/06	Personality Powerpoint Notes	Chapter 11:  Today's Quiz Film Notes: Freud's Biography
11/9/06	Readings in Personality Fairchild's SR Paper	Rotter, J.B.  (1966).  Generalized expectancies for internal vs. external control of reinforcement.  (Hock, pp. 192-199) Bem, S.L. (1974).  The measurement of psychological androgyny. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 42, 155-162.  (Hock, pp. 199-209) Triandis, H., Bontempo, R., Villareal, M., Asai, M., & Lucca, N.  (1988).  Individualism and collectivism: Cross-cultural perspectives on self-ingroup relationships.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 323-338.  (Hock, pp. 217-225).
11/14/06	Psychological Disorders What is abnormal?	Chapter 12:  Today's Quiz Optional Readings:  Psychological Costs of War - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Suicide
11/16/06	Readings in Psychopathology Fairchild's SR Paper	Rosenhan, D.L.  (1973).  Who's crazy here, anyway?  (Hock, pp. 226-234) Freud, A.  (1946).  The ego and the mechanisms of defense.  (Hock, pp. 234-242). Calhoun, J.B.  (1962).  Population density and social pathology.  (Hock pp. 249-257). Addicted to War
11/21/06	Psychotherapy Film:	Chapter 13: Powerpoint Notes Today's Quiz
11/23/06	Therapies Readings in Psychotherapy	Smith, M.L., & Glass, G.V.  (1977).  Meta-analysis of psychotherapy outcome studies.  (Hock, pp. 258-264). Wolpe, J. (1961).  The systematic desensitization treatment of neuroses.  (Hock, pp. 264-272) Murray H.A.  (1938).  Explorations in personality.  (Hock, pp. 267-273). Rorschach, H.  (1942).  Psychodiagnostics:  A diagnostic test based on perception.  (Hock, pp. 272-279).
11/23/06	Thanksgiving Holiday
11/28/06	Social Psychology	Chapter 14 - Today's Quiz Final Extra Credit Chance: Do an SR on these readings: Troubled Children Child psychiatry Medicating Children with Problems
11/30/06	Readings in Social Psychology Fairchild's SR paper on these readings	Festinger, L., & Carlsmith, J.M.  (1959).  Cognitive consequences of forced compliance.  (Hock, pp. 183-190) LaPiere, R.T.  (1934).  Attitudes and actions.  (Hock, pp. 287-295) Asch, S.E.  (1953).  Opinions and social pressure.  (Hock, pp. 295-300). Darley, J.M., & Latane, B. (1968).  Bystander intervention in emergencies: Diffusion of responsibility.  (Hock, pp. 300-308). Milgram, S. (1963).  Behavioral Study of Obedience.  (Hock, pp. 308-316).
12/5/06	Iraq War Study Findings	Fairchild, H.H. (1991).  Scientific racism: The cloak of objectivity.  Journal of Social Issues, 47(3), 101-115. Fairchild, H.H.  (1984).  School size, per-pupil expenditures, and school achievement.  Review of Public Data Use, 12, 221-229.
12/7/06	Course rap-up.	Student Presentations:  What Psychology Means to Me! Professor's Rap

Course Organization and Requirements

Attendance is required.  On Tuesdays, students will be subjected to lectures and films.  On Thursdays, these lectures and films may continue.  In addition, Thursdays are devoted to an exploration of our reader, "Forty Studies that Changed Psychology."  For each of the readings that are assigned on Thursdays, students are required to produce an "S/R Paper." One unexcused absence is allowed during the semester. Students' grades will be lowered 1/2 grade for every two additional absences (3 absences mean that the highest possible grade a student can receive is an A-).

S/R Papers.  "S/R" stands for "Stimulus/Response."  The "Stimulus," each day, is the day's reading assignment.  The "Response" is the student's reaction to that reading.  For each class session that has a reading assignment, students should write an "S/R" for each of the readings.  The "Stimulus" portion of the paper should be a very short summary or synopsis of what the reading assignment was about.  The "Response" portion may be short or long -- and should provide your insights, reflections, thoughts, reactions, and/or questions to the reading material.  These "Responses" will be shared in class as part of our class discussion.  Students should come to class, each day, with their "S/R Papers" typed and ready to hand in.  "S/R Papers" will be worth up to 100 points.  Late papers receive 50% credit.

Tuesday Quizzes.  Students should come prepared for a short quiz at the beginning of class, each Tuesday.  Quizzes will cover the reading material assigned for that day, and may cover lecture and/or discussion material from one of the preceding classes.  Only the first five minutes of class will be devoted to these quizzes.  Students late to class or absent WILL NOT be able to make up the quiz.  Each quiz is worth up to 100 points.

Class Participation.  Classroom participation is encouraged.  Up to 500 points will be awarded for classroom participation. 

Grading

Grades will be based on work performed, and determined subjectively by the instructor.  Attendance is mandatory, as is class participation, so these items weigh heavily in grading.  Weekly quizzes and "S/R papers" are worth up to 100 points (50% off for late papers).  Class participation is worth up to 500 points.  "A" students receive 92% or more of the available points; "B" students 82% or more; etc.  Students on the margins receive minuses or plusses.  Students are heavily penalized for absences, see notes, above, regarding attendance.

Extra Credit Policy (added to syllabus 10-10-06)

Generally, extra credit will be limited to 250 points for the semester. Students may submit S/R papers for special events that they attend, and earn extra credit (up to 100 points per event). No extra credit work will be accepted in the last weeks of the semester (in December 2006); therefore, do it earlier.