UNCA Psyc102-002, Spring, 2009

Psychology 102:
General Psychology:
Personality and Social Processes
Section 002, Spring Semester, 2009
Professor Stephen Houseworth

Dates of import

Additional readings

Dates of import	Article choices, Papers, Exams and such
Tuesday, 12may09, 11:30am - 2:30pm	Exam III (content areas: more Psychopathology, Tx for Psychological Disorders; Social Psychology)
Tuesday, 12may09	Paper no. 4 of 4 due
Tuesday, 28april09	Paper no. 3 of 4 due
Tuesday, 14april09	Paper no. 2 of 4 due
Thursday, 09april09	Exam II (content areas: Stress, Personality, Psychopathology)
Thursday, 26february09	Emotion/Motivation paper (no. 1 of 4) due
Thursday, 19february09	Exam I (Content areas: Introduction, Emotion/Motivation)
Psyc102 Message Board
06april09	Rumspringa story on NPR
01april09	Online MBTI wanna-be: the Jung Typology Test
09march09	Sleep story links: part I & part II
23january09	Sometime in the next week, scan chapters 9-14 well enough so that you have a sense of the types of questions that arise in each of the chapters . . .
21january09	Have you emailed me yet? If your pix is above, I've received an email from you . . .
19august08	NB: Professor Houseworth's e-address is houseworth@unca.edu

Additional readings	Optional, but encouraged, readings
Motvation & Emotion	Lazarus, R. S. (1991). Cognition and motivation in emotion. American Psychologist, 46(4), 352-367.
Ethics	Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct: [html] [pdf]
Introduction	Gardner, H. (1992). Scientific psychology: Should we bury it or praise it? New Ideas in Psychology, 10, 179-190. Markus, H.R. & Kitayama, S. (1991) Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion and motivation. Psychological Review, 98, 224-253. Triandis, H. C. (2001). Individualism-collectivism and personality. Journal of Personality, 69(6), 907-924.
Text Readings	Zimbardo, P. G., Johnson, R. L., & Weber, A. L. (2006). Psychology: Core Concepts* (5th ed.): Allyn & Bacon.
by class on 18april09	Text reading assignment 8: Chapter 14 (Social Psychology) in Zimbardo, Johnson, & Weber*
by class on 09april09	Text reading assignment 7: Chapter 13 (Psychology-based Treatment) n Zimbardo, Johnson, & Weber*
by class on 02april09	Text reading assignment 6: Chapter 12 (Psychopathology) in Zimbardo, Johnson, & Weber*
by class on 17march09	Text reading assignment 5: Chapter 11 (Personality) in Zimbardo, Johnson, & Weber*
by class on 24february09	Text reading assignment 4: Chapter 10 (Stress) in Zimbardo, Johnson, & Weber*
	Text reading assignment 3: Chapter 09 (Emotion & Motivation) in Zimbardo, Johnson, & Weber*
	Text reading assignment 2: Appendix (Statistics & Methodology) in Zimbardo, Johnson, & Weber*
	Text reading assignment 1: Chapter 01 (Introduction) in Zimbardo, Johnson, & Weber*

PAL	Psychology & Living Opportunities
Write-up Instructions	Submit two-paragraph write-up per event within one week of attending the event [PAL requirements include: hard-copies necessary; four (4) total hours for the semester] (a) list the event you attended, the date, person, title, length of event (how long; round up to nearest 30') (b) summarize the content (c) reflect upon - i.e. explain - the event's relevance (if any) to psychology. If there is no direct application to understanding matters of psychological interest, explain how such matters could have been incorporated.
30' credit with write-up	Assess your conscious and unconscious preferences at Project Implicit
60' credit with write-up	A class divided, a compelling story illustrating dynamics of prejudice and discrimination; In addition to your customary write-up, please answer the following question: was this an experiment or a demonstration?
30' credit with write-up	Two pieces on conformity studies (both the audio and the video piece necessary to receive credit): BBC story on Solomon Asch & conformity research (audio piece) & Recreation of Asch conformity study
60' credit with write-up	Stanford Prison experiment
	The bystander effect: Kitty Genovese

Resources
Databases	Academic Search Premier Find Articles.com FreeMedicalJournals Google Scholar JSTOR Medline PsychInfo
Approved Psychology Journals (free access, use Ramsey Library portal)	GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY; GENERAL SCIENCE American Psychologist Annual Review of Psychology Canadian Psychology Current Directions in Psychological Science Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied Nature New England Journal of Medicine Psychological Bulletin Psychological Review Review of General Psychology Science Scientific American EMOTION & MOTIVATION Cognition and Emotion Emotion Motivation and Emotion MISCELLANEOUS Annual Review of Clinical Psychology Child Development Developmental Psychology European Journal of Personality Health Psychology International Journal of Play Therapy International Journal of Stress Management Journal of Abnormal Psychology Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology Journal of Counseling Psychology Journal of Educational Psychology Journal of Family Psychology Journal of Personality Journal of Personality Assessment Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment Journal of Research in Personality Neurology Personality and Individual Differences Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Personality and Social Psychology Review Psychological Assessment Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy Psychology of Addictive Behaviors Rehabilitation Psychology Social Behavior and Personality
References	APA Formatting and Style Guide found at the Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

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