Lecture Schedule and Due Dates

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Day

Date

Lecture #

Lecture Topic

Reading & Due Dates

Thursday

9/7/06

1

The Brain: Between the ears, behind the eyes

Ch 1 & 2

Tuesday

9/12/06

2

Motivation and Emotion: "Reason alone cannot move us to do anything"

Ch 3 (optional), Ch 11 p.431-468

 

 

Thursday

9/14/06

3

Learning: The power of association

Ch 4

Tuesday

9/19/06

4

Sensing: Gathering the information

Ch 5

Thursday

9/21/06

5

Perceiving: Selecting and Interpreting the information

Ch 6

Tuesday

9/26/06

6

Memory: What do you remember?

Ch 7; STEP 1 DUE

Thursday

9/28/06

Prof. Wolfe was sick

Ch 8

Tuesday

10/3/06

Thursday

10/5/06

7

Cognition: How do you think?

Tuesday

10/10/06

COLUMBUS DAY--NO CLASS OR RECIT.

Thursday

10/12/06

8

Language: What do you say?

Ch 9

Tuesday

10/17/06

9

Linguistic and Cognitive Development: How do children think

Ch 12 (491-501 optional)

Thursday

10/19/06

MIDTERM

Friday

10/20/06 STEP 2 DUE

Tuesday

10/24/06

10

The Battle of the Sexes: Love and Evolution

Ch 11 (414-431)

Thursday

10/26/06

11

Social exchange: Romantic econnomics

Ch 10

Tuesday

10/31/06

12

Race and Prejudice

Thursday

11/2/03

13

Obedience to authority

 

Tuesday

11/7/06

14

Individual differences: Intelligence

Ch 14

Thursday

11/9/06

15

Who are you? The psychology of the self

Ch 15 (Optional);STEP 3 DUE

Tuesday

11/14/06

16

From Dissociation to Repression

Ch 15 pp 611-628 

Thursday

11/16/06

17

Freud and the development of morality

 

Tuesday

11/21/06

JMW Away

Thursday

11/23/06

Thanksgiving

Tuesday

11/28/06

18

Freud and Fairy Tales

Thursday

11/30/06

19

Sleep and dreams

Ch 3 p. 109-115 ; STEP 4 DUE

Tuesday

12/5/06

20

Definitions and Causes of mental illness: Are suicide bombers insane?

Ch 16

Thursday

12/7/06

21

Curing mental illness: Beyond magic bullets

Ch 17