• Behind in your reading?
• How we know what we know
• Rock stars die early?
• Looting versus finding; more
• Audio: Science and Pseudoscience
• Distinguishing pseudoscience from science
• Certainty: Eyewitness testimony (video)
• Police Psychics
• Sylvia Browne: Psychic
• "Be an expert on anything"
• "Scientology nearly ready to unveil Super Power"
• Cat predicts deaths?
• A psychic dog?
• Deceptive marketing practices
  

Ch. 1: Is it psychology or common sense?
Ch. 13: Student stress
Faulty thinking

• An empirical question?
• Study of after-death communication
• 25 fallacies that lead us to believe weird things
• peer review process
• Half-baked theories
• How to deal with false research findings
• Misrepresenting science: Autism
• 20 most bizarre "experiments"
• The urinal study
• Video: Drug ad analysis

Assignment 1

Article: If the television program...

Ch. 17: Doing social psychology research
Correlation coefficients
Type of correlation?

• The danger of knowing for sure
• Alternative medicines - watch video
  • save us from...
• Graphology ("Paper Personality") - video
• The Alternative Fix
• Supplements lose luster
• Herbal medicine research
• Possible perils of peer review
• Conflict of interest
• Case studies: A case study
• Height and affluence: U.S. no longer the tallest
• HS GPA best predictor of college performance

Article: New directions in... (Honors only)

• Assignment 2 (Honors)

Assignment 2 (Section 4)

Ch. 2: Connect the dots

• Correlation or causation?
• Myopia and night lights
• Bogus weight-loss claims
• Acupuncture: The facts
• Infomercials
• Superfruits?
• Video: Bill Nye on astrology

Article: Does drinking promote...

• Assignment 3

Jumping to conclusions
ESP trick
Flash mind reader

• Facilitated communication
• Theories of autism
• Video: Dr. Temple Grandin
• John Edward and probability
• Placebos ; watch video on "The Wonder Pill"
• What's wrong with the placebo effect?
• Thinking the hurt away
• Drinking too much water

Article: Imperceptibly off-center...

• Assignment 4

• Why are more people right-handed?
• Vividness effect: Summer of the shark
• Research Randomizer
• Science and politics; more
• Criminal Profiling; more ; more
• Forensic "science"

Article: Buying behavior as...

• Assignment 5

Article: Unit bias...

• Assignment 6

Article: Raeding Wrods... (Honors only)

Ch. 3: Scanning the Brain
Compare brains
Test your reaction time
Test a split-brain patient
Probe the motor cortex
Tour of the brain

• Deep brain stimulation for treating depression
  • Animation
  • Dramatic case
• Video: Prosopagnosia - Face blindness
  • More on prosopagnosia; more
• Brain disorders
• Crossing the blood-brain barrier
• Video: Split-brain patient
• Video: Brain disorders
• Video: Wernicke's and Broca's aphasia

Ch. 2 (M)

Article: Rough-and-tumble play... (Honors only)

Assignment 7

Ch. 9: Identifying sleep disorders
Ch. 9: Sleeping in stages
Ch. 9: You are getting very sleepy
Ch. 9: How are you sleeping?

• Half-asleep birds; dolphins, too
• Sleepwalking; Sleepwalking Napervillian accident
• Fly Napping;Mutant flies need less shut-eye; Why Dreams?
• How long can humans stay awake?
• "What's in a dream?"
• Sleep aids memory, problem-solving
• Center for Narcolepsy
  • video: dog narcolepsy
• Lots of sleep info
• Violence during sleepwalking
• Pheromones in Humans
• Copycat monkeys
• Obsessive-compulsive mice
• Alex the parrot; More Alex

Ch. 6 (M)

Article: Sleep facilitates...

Ch. 3: The Neuron
How Drugs Work

• Neural transmission
• Restoring severed neurons
• Sprouting of new neurons
• Botox for MS?; Botox for excessive sweating?; for writer's cramp?
• Science of alcohol
• Fetal brains and alcohol
• All about drugs
• New pain reliever more potent, less addictive
• Reverse autism spectrum disorder?
• 10 unsolved mysteries of the brain
• Hand actions fire mirror neurons in handless

Ch. 3 (M)

Article: Is television traumatic...

• Assignment 8

Ch. 8: What's the pattern?
Ch. 11: Gender expectations..
Ch. 12: Baby's first love affair
Ch. 12: Peers and psychosocial development
Ch. 12: Test your knowledge about.
Ch. 12: Where'd you get those eyes?
Ch. 12: Understanding genetic disorders

• What does Batman think about Spongebob?
• Learning a language easier in kids
• Blind relatives "prove" facial expressions are inherited
• The violent brain - multiple causes
• Video: The adaptive brain - walking
• James Watson and the missing gene
• Toddlers and robots

Ch. 4 (M)

Article: What causes specific...

Assignment 9

• Risk-taking: Nature or Nurture?
• Family resemblance - confirmation bias
• Science of a fishing lure
• Lead in lunchboxes
• Tough Boys Popular?
• Disruptive kids grow into their behavior
• Is tendency for anxiety/fear inherited?
• finger length and autism
• response to disgust
• science of sexual orientation
• Origins of sexual orientation
• birth order and homosexuality
• Danger mouse: Deleting a gene...
• Can animals predict disaster?
• Gene difference between humans and chimps
• What apes can teach us about human mind
• VIDEO: Chimp playing Ms. Pacman

Ch. 5 (M)

Article: The neural bases...

Article: Try it, you'll...

• Assignment 10
  

Ch. 4: If you can't do this Netlab..

Ch. 4: Pain: Where does it come from?

• How observant are you?
• Video: Inverted vision
• Synaesthesia
  • Tasting words
  • I feel for you

Ch. 6: Understanding classical conditioning
Train Pavlov's Dog
Train Skinner's Pigeon
Ch. 6: Learning by removing
Ch. 6: Test your knowledge of ...
Ch. 6 Schedules of reinforcement
Ch. 6: Identifying the reinforcers...
Ch. 6: Learning about learning

• Bad Thai cops wear Hello Kitty

Article: Are pets a healthy...

• Assignment 11

• Classical or Operant Conditioning?
• Rescue Rat!
• Rat Basketball - shaping; more
• Rat basketball; more
• Pigeon-based Search Engine
• Pigeon-guided missile; more
• Punishment: Prison loaf!
• "What Shamu taught me..."
• Dog training
• Fish training
• Rat training
• video: C.C. on The Office
• video: Baby having tantrum

Ch. 8 (M)

Assignment 12 (Honors)

Assignment 12 (Section 4)

Ch. 5: Pay Attention!
Ch. 7: A chunk of pie
Ch. 5: When meaning interferes with image; Stroop effect
Ch. 7: How's your short-term memory?
Thinker: Cogntive psychology resource

• Cell phone effect; More research; More research; recent research; cell phone vs. passenger distraction
• Cell-phone-induced driver distraction
• Duration of working memory in bees
• Memory: National Geographic feature

Article: On making the right...

• Assignment 13
  

Ch. 5: Shortcuts and schemas
Ch. 7: How's your memory for memory?

• Can we pick our own memories?
• Amnesiacs cannot imagine future
• Consolidation and sleep
• Superior serial memory in the blind
• The case of Clive Wearing
• Video: Brain Man
  

• Do you know anyone who is possessed?
• A memory artist
• Imagery helps memory
• Short-term memory loss (video)
• Gene therapy for Alzheimer's
• Inside the brain: Alzheimer's tour
• Curry Power: Help Alzheimer's patients?
• Prevalence of dementia/Alzheimers

Ch. 9 (M)

Article: Believing is seeing...

• Assignment 14

Ch. 10: Test your intelligence (psychometric)
Ch. 12: Do you value yourself?
Ch. 15: Personality testing in the workplace

• Repressed memory: Abducted by aliens?
• Amnesia at the movies

• Big Five Personality Test
• Lemon drop test
• Do dogs resemble their owners?

Paper 3 due

Ch. 11: Planting the seeds for eating disorders
Ch. 13: Putting common sense...
Ch. 14: Where do adult behaviors..
Ch. 14: Defensive strategies
Ch. 14: Which jury consultant...

Article: First impressions...

• Assignment 15

Ch. 15: Depression: Common cold
Ch. 15: The case of the confused..
Ch. 15: Alcohol: America's...
Ch. 15: Suicide...
Ch. 15: How much do you know about suicide?

• "A crime of insanity"
• FAQs on the insanity defense
• DSM-IV classifications
• Nose-picking abnormal?
• Video: Abnormal psychology
• Phobias; Fears and phobias
• Psychopaths
• Decriminalizing mental illness
• Depression (answers from NIMH)

Ch. 13 (M)

Article: Do narcissists dislike...

Assignment 16

Article: Positive affect and...

• Assignment 17

Article: The effectiveness of...

Article: Facilitation of extinction... (honors only)

Ch. 16: Name that therapy
Ch. 16: What's my specialty?

• 1-800-PSYCH
• Depression in men
• Depressed? Think faster thoughts
• Therapeutic Touch
  • study
• Foreign accent syndrome
• Audio/video on schizophrenia
• The rise and fall of the prefrontal lobotomy
• Traumatic therapies

Ch. 14 (M)

Dolphin-assisted therapy

• dolphin questions

Assignment 18

• Winter Depression Therapy
  • Blue light harmful/helpful?
• Psychodiagnostic Chirology
• Pseudoscience in Therapy
• Science and therapy
• Careers in psychology
• Extinguishing fears
• Audio: Cognitive behavioral therapy: Thinking positive
• Suicide prevention
• Self-help -- "The Secret"
  • More on The Secret; more
• EMDR therapy successful?
• How gene therapy could cure brain diseases

Nov 19 (Section 4)

Nov 21 (Section H1)

3:30-5:30pm

7:30-9:30am