INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology 104                                               Fall, 1998
Dr. John M. Morgan                                 MWF 11:00 - 11:50 AM
					       Harry Griffith Hall, 203

REQUIRED TEXT: Psychology: Behavior in Context 
		   by Bourne and Russo
		   from W. Norton Publishing Co. 1998
                   ISBN 0-393-97209-7  $75.50 new including student workbook



Outline of classroom activities:

The course is designed to insure that the students as well as 
the professor are active in the learning process and classroom 
activities.  The students will form themselves into groups based  
on the student's interest, as detailed below.

Professor will lecture on Mondays and Wednesdays and ask the 
representative of each student group to give their group's 
reports on the issues to class.

Student groups meet each Friday during class time and each group 
will prepare a 1 page group report detailing the group's 
view on the following questions concerning the week's discussion:
1)      Is the explanation of human behavior complete with only 
the explanation of the orientation or theory under discussion?
2)      What does the group's orientation add to the explanation 
of human behavior in addition to the orientation or theory 
under discussion?

Each student will select a group based on the orientation in 
Psychology that he/she wants to 'defend' and promote.  Examples 
of group orientations are:
	Biological explanations of Behavior,
	Learning explanations of Behavior,
	Developmental explanations of Behavior,
	Social explanations of Behavior,
	Other explanations of Behavior as students desire and 
		professor approves, e.g. Gender or Cultural.

During the first portion of the course, the professor will 
lecture over and present some 'Introductory Thoughts' 
concerning the following orientations in Psychology:
Aug 24 - Aug 31       Introduction-Fundamental Questions in Psychology,
                             Cause & Effect versus Correlation,
Aug 31 - Sep 4        Biological explanations of human Behavior,
Sep 7  - Sep 11       Sensation and Perception in human Behavior,
Sep 14 - Sep 21       Learning explanations of human Behavior,
Sep 23 - Sep 30       Developmental explanations of human Behavior,
Oct 2  - Oct 7        Social explanations of human Behavior.

During this introductory period each group will present their 
orientation's view of the topic's explanation of behavior.  
This is introductory and none of the members of any group are 
expected to have mastered the intricacies of any of 
Psychology's orientations.  But each group will begin the 
process within the second week of the course.

Following this introduction to each orientation, the professor 
will lecture over the following topics and a representative of 
each group will present in class their orientation's view of 
the psychological process under discussion:

Oct  9                Midterm Examintation

Oct 12 - Oct 16       Memory
Oct 19                Human thinking & Problem Solving
Oct 21 - Oct 26       Consciouness
Oct 28 - Nov 2        Motivation & Emotion     
Nov 4  - Nov 6        Human sexual/gender orientation

Nov 9  - Nov 13       Psychological Disorders, e.g. definitions of            
			Schizophrenia, depression, compulsive disorders, 
			anxiety, etc.
Nov 16 - Nov 20       Psychoanalytic orientation of Psychological Therapy,      
                      Thanksgiving Holidays
Nov 30                Biological orientation of Psychological Therapy,
Dec  2  -Dec 4        Humanistic orientation of Psychological Therapy,
Dec  7 - Dec 11       Learning orientation of Psychological Therapy,
Dec 16 10:20-11:10    Final examination

Each group will rate the performance of each member of the group on a 
     confidential rating form provided by the instructor.

There will be a total of ten (10) short, multiple-choice type 
examinations over designated chapters of the textbook.

There will be essay-type midterm and final examinations over 
the material presented during the class sessions by the professor 
and by each group.  The professor will pass out a list of possible
essay questions before each exam.

Class grades will be calculated on the following basis:

Each weekly exam is worth 10 and 2 can be missed or the 2 
	lowest scores will be dropped                           80 pts
Midterm essay exam                                              50 pts
Final essay exam                                                50 pts
Recommendations by the members of your group:                   30 pts	
Your group's report/performance in class 
	(professor's subjective ratings)                        30 pts
							       ---------
		Total                                          240 pts

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