Faculty Resource Sheet – Introduction to Psychology
Revised: Fall 2010
Contact for further information:
Robin Musselman – ARC 301B, rmusselman@lccc.edu
Ann Turoczy – ARC 301B, aturoczy@lccc.edu
Textbook: Myers, D. (2009). Exploring psychology, 8e. New York: Worth.
Faculty Online Resources:
Resources for Psychology http://resources4psych.blogspot.com/
This is a blog that is maintained locally and includes integration of resources, including
those from the LCCC library for use in PSY 140.
Teaching of Psychology Idea Exchange (ToPIX) http://teachpsych.pbworks.com/
This is a wiki that is maintained through OTRP (Office for Teaching Resources in
Psychology) and covers a multitude of ideas for assignments, lectures, films, etc. This is
a real wealth of information for both the classroom and your own professional
development. Don’t be overwhelmed! Look it over and then go back when you need an
idea.
1. Website for students:
http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/exploring8e
This is a free website, available to all students without the need for an access code.
By the way, click on the tab on the far right (Instructor’s Resources) and register if you
haven’t already done so. Be sure to use your LCCC email.
Included on the web page for students are:
 Chapter quizzes - Two quizzes for each chapter
Note that students can save their scores OR you can ask them to email their quiz scores
to your grade book – but you must set up your account first in order for students to be
able to do this.
Teaching Tip:
Some faculty use these quizzes as a pre test – post test tool. You can assign students to
complete the first quiz prior to covering the material in class and then the second quiz after it is
completed. Or you can simply assign the quizzes and award credit to students who complete
them with a certain score.
Yes, it is true that students can look up the answers in the book, but that means that they are in
the book! This is a great way to be able to award students some small amount of points over the
semester that can represent time on task.
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Flashcards – In either English or Spanish
Focus on Vocabulary
This is a tool that might be unfamiliar. For students who struggle with the vocabulary of
the text.
Example (words that are unfamiliar): Page 1: . . . to remedy their own
woes, millions turn to "psychology." In order to alleviate or fix (remedy)
their misery, anxiety, grief, pain, and suffering (woes), people seek help
from "psychology." (Psychology is in quotes because Myers wants to
point out that not everything you think of as "psychology" is part of
scientific psychology.)
Example (words that are culturally unfamiliar) Page 1: Have you ever
played peekaboo with a 6- month-old . . . ? Peekaboo is a game played
in most cultures where a person hides or pretends to hide from a child
and then reappears saying "PEEKABOO!" The important questions for
psychologists are why do infants all over the world react similarly to this
game; what are they actually feeling, perceiving, and thinking?
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Text Glossary translated into Spanish
PsychSim Tutorials – PsychSim is a supplemental tool that we haven’t provided for our
students. However, for most chapters you will find some example(s) of these tutorials.
See a list of tutorials by chapter below. These include short assessments to check on
student learning and when completed the student can submit their answers to you via
email. T
PsychSim Worksheets – As I mentioned above, PsychSim is a supplement that is not
available to our students and for some odd reason, Worth has included more worksheets
than tutorials. (Perhaps to encourage us to use the supplement?)
PsychSim Quizzes - Again, there are more quizzes than tutorials.
I have listed the PsychSim tutorials that have worksheets and quizzes available free to our
students via the website. There are additional worksheets and quizzes listed there, but the
tutorials are not available to our students
Chapter
1
2
3
3
5
6
6
Tutorial, Worksheet and Quiz
Psychology’s Timeline
Hemispheric Specialization
EEG and Sleep Stages
Your Mind on Drugs
Cognitive Development
The Auditory System
Visual Illusions
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7
8
9
9
10
11
11
11
13
14
15
Appendix A
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Operant Conditioning
Mind Reading Monkeys
Iconic Memory
My Head is Spinning
Get Smart
Hunger and the Fat Rat
Expressing Emotion
All Stressed Out
Helplessly Hoping
Mystery Client
Computer Therapist
Social Decision Making
Descriptive Statistics
PsychInquiry Worksheets – Again this is a worksheet that works with another
supplement that is not available to our students. (Maybe in the future?)
Animations – These are basically from the chapters on the brain and sensations.
Animation
Signal Transmission (Neurons) Three parts
Ion Flow (Neurons) Four parts
Synaptic Activity (Neurons) Three parts
Sensory Motor Cortex (Brain) Two parts
Split Brain Three parts
Sound and Sound Localization (Auditory) Two parts
Sound and the Cochlea (Auditory) Three parts
Chapter
2
2
2
2
2
6
6
Also on this webpage is the Student’s Scorecard (fourth tab across the top).
This page keeps track of the student’s work on the quizzes found on the web page. The student will
have a record of the number of attempts, and their scores (average score, first score, last score, highest
score, and lowest score).
2. Instructor’s Resource CD-Rom
This is the primary resource (with the textbook, of course) that you will utilize. In fact,
everything else that follows is nice additions that can be added, but are really not an integral
part of the course.
CD 1 – Chapters 1 through 7 and Appendices
CD 2 – Chapters 9 through 15
For each chapter you will find
 Chapter Figures, Photos and Tables – jpg files that allow you to put these into
documents, presentations, web pages, etc.
 Instructor’s Resources Manual – in both pdf and word formats
For each chapter you will find
 An Outline of Resources
 Learning Objectives
 Chapter Outlines that include
o Lecture/Discussion Topics that expand on the text
o Classroom Exercises that get students involved in the material
o Student Projects that could be assigned for outside work
o PsychSim exercises (See note above for list of those PsychSim
tutorials that are available to our students on the website.)
o ActivePsych, Digital Archive Videos, and Instructor VideoTool Kit
 Handouts
Teaching Tip:
The first resource in every chapter is an introductory Fact of Falsehood? This is a short “quiz”
type format that addresses topics that will be introduced and is an excellent resource to help
identify prior knowledge and confront misperceptions.
Chapter 1 also includes an overview of the entire course (Handout 1-2) and you can use this to
identify the diverse topics you will cover in your course.
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Lecture Guide that includes a chapter preview and a chapter outline that indicates
what resources are available in the Instructor’s Resource Guide. (This is also in pdf
and word format.)
PowerPoint Library
o Lecture Power Points
o Figure Power Points
3. Test Bank
Diploma is the software program that helps you to create your assessments. The disk that
you have has software for both Windows and Mac and covers two volumes of test bank
questions. After you have installed and registered your software, close the webpage and then
click on the software on your computer and begin with the Getting Started guide. (If you
have used this resource previously, you can obviously skip this step. To get started with the
test creation, click on Wimba Diploma.
You will see the list of resources available in the left hand window. There are two different
Test Banks (TB1 and TB2). Note that TB1 includes the following for each chapter:
 Multiple choice questions from the textbook
 Essay questions
 Web Quiz 1 (These are the questions the student receives on the web site for quiz 1)
 Web Quiz 2 (These are the questions the student receives on the web site for quiz 2)
 Study Guide (These are the questions in the printed student study guide).
Test Bank 2 contains additional multiple choice questions based on the textbook as well as questions
that accompany the Digital Media Archive and Active Psych.
By the way, if you are interested in viewing a hard copy of the Test Bank, Volume 1 or
Volume 2. There is a copy in ARC 301B.
Additional resources you received:
Video Tool Kit
There are 3 DVDs and an accompanying Faculty Guide that describes each video clip in the
series.
ActivePsych
DVD 1 – Digital Video Archive
Neuroscience and Behavior
Development
Sensation and Perception
Consciousness
Learning and Memory
DVD 2 – Digital Video Archive
Thinking, Language, and Intelligence
Emotion and Motivation
Stress and Health
Disorders and Therapy
Social Psychology
DVD 3 – Scientific American Frontiers (Programs 1 through 15)
You can get more information about the digital videos that are represented on these 3 DVDs in the
Faculty Guide for ActivePsych
Digital Media Archive, 2nd Edition
DVD 1 – Segments 1 through 17
DVD 2 - Segments 18 through 33
You can get more information about the digital videos that are represented on these 2 DVDs
in the Faculty Guide for use with Worth Publishers Digital Media Archive: Psychology (the
pink book).
Psychology and the Real World
This is a collection of essays that complement the chapters in our textbook. This is a gift to
you from Worth Publishers. Our students do not have this resource.
Chapter Outline
1. Thinking Critically about Psychological Science
a. What is Psychology
i. Levels of Analysis
ii. Perspectives of psychology
iii. Limitations of common sense and intuition
b. Diversity within the discipline
c. Scientific Method
i. Descriptive research
ii. Correlation
iii. Experiments
d. Ethics of Research
(Chapter 1)
Teaching Tip:
The first resource in every chapter is an introductory Fact of Falsehood? This is a short “quiz”
type format that addresses topics that will be introduced and is an excellent resource to help
identify prior knowledge and confront misperceptions.
Chapter 1 also includes an overview of the entire course (Handout 1-2) and you can use this to
identify the diverse topics you will cover in your course.
2. Biology of the Mind
a. Structure and Function of neuron
b. Organization of the Nervous system
c. Structure and function of endocrine system
d. Organization, structure, function of the brain
e. Plasticity and Split brain
3. Consciousness
a. Dual processing and Selective attention
b. Stages of sleep and theories that explain why we sleep
i. Sleep disorders
c. Theories used to explain and interpret dreams
d. Dependence and addiction
i. Influence on drug use
4. Human Diversity
a. Interaction of heredity and the environment to explain diversity
b. Evolutionary Psychology
c. Cultural Influences
d. Gender Development
5. Development
a. Explain the development of the mind and cognition
i. Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
(Chapter 2)
(Chapter 3)
(Chapter 4)
(Chapter 5)
ii. Theory of mind
b. Theories of attachment and influence of parenting styles on development
c. Describe the role of critical periods, and the issues of continuity/discontinuity,
stability/instability in development
6. Sensation and Perception
(Chapter 6)
a. Sensation
i. Bottom-up and Top-down processing
ii. Concepts of threshold and adaptation
b. Perception
i. Gestalt concepts and principles
1. Figure ground, continuity, similarity, proximity etc.
ii. Describe binocular and monocular depth cues.
iii. Perceptual constancy
iv. Describe the influence on perception of environment, motivation, past
experiences, culture, and expectations.
7. Learning
(Chapter 7)
a. Classical Conditioning
b. Operant Conditioning
c. Observational Learning
8. Memory
(Chapter 8)
a. Informational Processing model of memory
i. Encoding
ii. Storage
iii. Retrieval
b. Forgetting
c. Constructed Memory
d. Repressed Memories
e. Improving memory
9. Thinking and Intelligence
(Chapter 9 – minus Language)
a. Thinking
i. Basic elements of cognition
ii. Strategies and obstacles of problem solving
1. Algorithms
2. Confirmation bias and functional fixedness
3. Heuristics
4. Mental set and functional fixedness
5. Overconfidence and belief perseverance
b. Intelligence
i. Theories of intelligence
ii. Assessment of intelligence
iii. Influence of heredity and environment on intelligence
iv. Understanding group differences in intelligence
10. Stress and Health
(Chapter 11- minus Emotions)
a. Sources of stress
b. Physiological reaction to stress
c. Strategies for dealing with stress
11. Personality
(Chapter 12)
a. Personality theories and approaches
i. Psychodynamic perspective
ii. Humanistic perspective
iii. Trait perspective
iv. Social-cognitive perspective
b. Self-esteem and the self-serving bias
12. Disorders and Therapies
(Chapters 13 – 14)
a. Explore and distinguish the differences between normal and abnormal behaviors
b. Relate major perspectives to the explanation and treatment of abnormal behavior
c. Describe major categories as classified in the DSM-TR-IV
i. Challenges associated with DSM-TR-IV and labeling disorders
d. Describe availability and appropriateness of various treatment modalities
i. Major treatment orientations used in therapy- psychoanalytic, humanistic,
etc.
ii. Explain how different treatment orientations will influence therapy
You will notice that some aspects of chapters are not listed and in addition, 2 chapters
are not listed at all. The following are not listed above:
Chapter 3 – Hypnosis and specific psychoactive drugs
Chapter 5 – Prenatal, adolescence, and adulthood
Chapter 6 – Vision and other senses
Chapter 9 – Language
Chapter 10 – Motivation
Chapter 11 – Emotions
Chapter 13 – Specific disorders
Chapter 14 – Specific therapies
Chapter 15 – Social psychology
Remember that the outline lists all of the material that MUST be covered. Many of you
will be able to cover additional topics and chapters and that is fine. But, after reviewing
the needs of other courses we offer in psychology, we decided that the topics listed in
the outline are essential.