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PSYCHOLOGY W1001x (FALL, 2003)
DR. H. S. TERRACE
418 SCHERMERHORN
(212) 854-4544
terrace@columbia.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday. 9:00 – 10:00 AM, Or By Appointment
Course Web Page: www.columbia.edu/cu/psychology/terrace/w1001
Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:35-11:50 a.m., 614 Schermerhorn (Room subject to change;
check website for most current information).
Office Hours with Teaching Assistants: It is essential that you see your TA on a regular basis to
clarify issues about which you have questions.
Josh Davis -- josh@psych.columbia.edu
Tuesday 12 - 1, or by appointment
500 Schermerhorn (enter on 4th floor near 406 and go up spiral staircase),
854-7033
Patty Wilson – pwilson@psych.columbia.edu
Monday 1-2, or by appointment
252 Schermerhorn (call to get through outer door)
854-8785
Discussion Sections: Each student will be assigned to a discussion section that will meet every
Thursday or Friday. Discussion sections will provide an opportunity for students to raise questions
about points they would like to clarify. It will also serve as a review of the main points of that week’s
lectures. There will be a brief 5-minute quiz at the end of each discussion section. The point of the
quiz is to provide painless feedback about your knowledge of the basic material of the course. Quizzes
will be graded on a pass/fail basis. Students who fail a quiz will be given a chance to make up the
quiz as many times as is necessary to obtain a grade of pass. Students who miss a particular section
without a legitimate excuse (documented illness, extra-curricular travel, etc.) will be given a grade of
fail for that quiz and will NOT be allowed to make it up. Quizzes account for 20% of your grade.
Thus, passing all of the quizzes insures that you’ve earned the maximum possible amount for 20% of
your grade.
Section 1: Thursday 1:10 -- 2:00 PM (Patty)
Section 2: Thursday 6:10 -- 7:00 PM (Patty)
Section 3:. Thursday 7:10 -- 8:00 PM (Josh)
Section 4: Thursday 8:10 -- 9:00 PM (Josh)
Section 5: Friday 10:00 -- 10:50 AM (Josh)
Section 6: Friday 11:00 -- 11:50 AM (Josh)
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Participation in Experiments: 3 hours required of all students -- SEE SEPARATE SHEET (to be
distributed on or after September 12).
Examinations: Three 75-minute examinations will be given in 614 Schermerhorn Hall. Examinations
will cover the material for successive thirds of the course. They are NOT CUMULATIVE.
NOTE: Make-up examinations will only be given IF AND ONLY IF (a) a note from a physician states
that you were physically unable to take the exam, or (b) the Dean's office requests a make-up.
Grades: Each examination will be given equal weight in determining your grade. The only exception
is a pronounced upward trend in your scores on successive examinations.
SYLLABUS, FALL 2003
Date:
Lecture #: Topic:
September 2
4
9
11
16
18
23
25
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Introduction
History
Freud
Piaget
Ethology I
Ethology II
Classical Conditioning
EXAM I (lectures 1-7)
30
8
Operant Conditioning I
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
Operant Conditioning II
Critique of Behaviorism
Language I
Language II
Language III
Sensation and Perception I
Sensation and Perception II
Sensation and Perception III
EXAM II (lectures 8-16)
17
18
19
20
21
22
Memory I
Memory II
Social Psychology
Psychological Measurement
Psychological Tests
Psychotherapy
THANKSGIVING DAY
October 2
7
9
14
16
21
23
28
30
November 6
11
13
18
20
25
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Behavior Modification
EXAM III (lectures 17-23)
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The Science Of Psychology
Required Readings:
Textbook to purchase:
Terrace, H. S. Chapters 1-6, 8, 10 & 12 (in manuscript form) are available at the
College Bookstore. NOTE: Chapters 7, 9 & 11 are not and will not be available.
On reserve in Psychology Library; also on course webpage:
Asch, S. "Opinions and Social Pressure." Scientific American, November, 1955.
Brady, J. & Lind, D. "Experimental analysis of hysterical blindness." Archives of
General Psychiatry, 1961, 331-339.
Gregory, R.L. Eye and Brain. McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition.
Hess, E. "Imprinting in Animals." Scientific American. March, 1958.
Jackson, D. D. "Schizophrenia." Scientific American, August, 1962.
Lazarus, A. A. "The treatment of chronic frigidity by systematic desensitization."
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1963, 371-378.
Lehrman, D. S. "The Reproductive Behavior of Ring Doves." Scientific American,
November, 1964.
Milgram, S. "Behavioral study of obedience." Journal of Abnormal and Social
Psychology, 1963, pp. 371-378.
Premack, D. & Premack, A. "Teaching Language to an Ape." Scientific American,
October, 1972.
Schachter, S. & Singer, J. "Cognitive, social and psychological determinants of
emotional states." Psychological Review, 1062, pp.379-399.
Szaz, T. S. "The myth of mental illness." American Psychologist, 1960, 113-118.
Terrace, H. S. "How Nim Chimpsky Changed My Mind." Psychology Today,
November, 1979.
Tuddenham, R. S. "Jean Piaget and the world of the child." American Psychologist,
1958, 1-15.
Tyler, L. E. The psychology of human differences. New York: Appleton-CenturyCrofts, 1965.
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Lecture #1 – September 2
INTRODUCTION
Required Readings:
Terrace, H. S. Chapter 1, "Introduction."
Suggested Readings:
Bever and Terrace. "Introduction and review of the issues," pp. 3-8.
Bever, T. G. and Terrace, H. S. Human behavior: Prediction and control in
modern society.
Bronowski, J. Science and human values. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
Kuhn, T. The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: Chicago University Press,
1972.
Miller, G. A. "Psychology as a means of promoting human welfare," pp. 147-159.
Skinner, B. F. Science and human behavior. New York: The Free Press, 1953.
Skinner, B. F. Beyond Freedom & Dignity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
Skinner, B. F. "The design of cultures," pp. 11-23;
Lecture #2 – September 4
HISTORY AND BASIC PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS
Required Readings:
Terrace, H. S. Chapter 2, "History."
Suggested Readings:
Herrnstein, R. and Boring E. A source book in the history of psychology. Cambridge:
Harvard
University Press, 1965.
Hilgard, E. R. Psychology in America: A Historical Survey. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace &
Jovanovich, Inc., 1987.
Murphy, G. and Kovack, J. Historical introduction to modern psychology. New York:
Harcourt,
Brace & Jovanovich, Inc., 1972
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Rachlin, H. Introduction to modern behaviorism. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co.,
1970.
Paperback.
Lectures #3 – September 9
FREUD
Required Readings:
Terrace, H. S. Chapter 3, "Freud."
Suggested Readings:
Brown, R. Social psychology. New York: The Free Press, 1986.
Hall, C. S. Primer of Freudian psychology. New York: The World Publishing Co.,
1954.
Freud, S. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Chapters 1-3, 5-11, 17-20.
Freud, S. The interpretation of dreams. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1960.
Freud, S. Three contributions to the theory of sex. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.,
1962.
Jones, E. The life and work of Sigmund Freud. New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc.,
1963.
Lecture #4 – September 11
PIAGET
Required Readings:
Terrace, H. S. Chapter 4, "Piaget."
Tuddenham, R. "Jean Piaget and the world of the child." American Psychologist.
1958, pp. 1-15. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
Suggested Readings:
Brown, R. Social psychology. New York: The Free Press, 1965.
Flavel, J. H., Miller, P. H., Miller, S. A. Cognitive development (3rd ed.). Englewood
Cliffs, NJ:
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Prentice Hall, 1993.
Furth, Hans G. Piaget and knowledge. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prenctice-Hall, Inc., 1969.
Ginsberg, H. and Opper, S. Piaget's theory of intellectual development: An introduction.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969
Lectures #5 and #6 –September 16 & 18
ETHOLOGY, APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR, AGGRESSION AND SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
Required Readings:
Terrace, H. S. Chapter 5, "Motives & Instincts."
Hess, E. H. "Imprinting."
Lehrman, D. S. "The reproductive behavior of ring doves." Scientific American reprint
#488, November, 1964.
Suggested Readings:
Alcock, J. Animal behavior: An evolutionary approach (3rd edition). Sunderland, MA:
Sinaeuer
Associates, 1984.
Carlson, N.R. Physiology of Behavior. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1986 (3rd edition).
Eibel-Eibesfeldt, I. Love and hate. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.
Ford, C. and Beach, F. Patterns in sexual behavior. New York: Harper and Row, 1951.
Hinde, R. A. Animal behavior. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970, 2nd ed.
Lorenz, K. On aggression. (Translated by M. K. Wilson). New York: Harcourt, Brace &
World, 1966.
Tinbergen, N. The study of instinct. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951.
Lecture #7 – September 23
CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
Required Readings:
Terrace, H. S. Chapter 6, "Conditioning," pp. 1-18
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Black, A. H. and Prokasy, W. F. Classical conditioning II: Current research and theory.
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1965.
Gallistel, C. R. The organization of learning. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.
Terrace, H. S. "Classical conditioning." In Nevin, J. A. (ed.), The study of behavior:
Learning,
motivation, emotion, and instinct. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1973, pp. 41114.
Lecture #8 and #9 - September 30 & October 2
OPERANT CONDITIONING
*NOTE: The movie BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION - LOVASS will be shown on
September 30.
Required Readings:
Terrace, H.S., Chapter 6, “Conditioning,” pp. 18-34.
Suggested Readings:
Estes, W. K. Learning theory and mental development. New York: Academic Press,
1970.
Honig, W. K. Stimulus control, operant behavior: Areas of research and application.
New York:
Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1966.
Rachlin, H. Introduction to modern behaviorism. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co.,
1970.
Paperback.
Skinner, B. F. Science and human behavior. New York: Macmillan, 1953, Chpts. 5-7.
Skinner, B. F. About Behaviorism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Lecture #10 – October 7
CRITIQUE OF BEHAVIORISM
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Bever, T. G., and Terrace, H. S. Human behavior. Part II. Chomsky, N. "Psychology and
Ideology," pp. 35-43. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
Suggested Readings:
Gardner, H. The mind's new science: A history of the cognitive revolution. New York:
Basic
Books, 1985.
Hebb, O. The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory. New York: John
Wiley &
Sons, Inc., 1949.
Lashley, K. S. "The problem of serial order in behavior." In Jeffress, L. A. (Ed.) Cerebral
mechanisms in behavior, the Hixon symposium. New York: John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., 1951.
Lecture #11 – October 9
LANGUAGE I
*NOTE: The movie SIGNS OF THE WHALES, SIGNS OF THE APES will be shown on
October 15th
Required Readings:
Premack, D. and Premack, A. "Teaching language to an ape." Scientific American,
March, 1958. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
Terrace, H. S. "How Nim Chimpsky changed my mind." Psychology Today, 1979. ON
RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
Suggested Readings:
Cheney, D. L. and Seyfarth, R. M. How monkeys see the world. Chicago, IL: University
of
Chicago Press, 1990.
Gardner, R. A. and Gardner, B. T. "Teaching sign language to a chimpanzee." Science,
1969, 165,
pp. 664-672.
Rumbaugh, D. (Ed.) Language learning by a chimpanzee: The Lana project. New York:
Academic
Press, 1972.
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Slobin, D. I. Psycholinguistics. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co. 2nd ed., pp. 133142.
Terrace, H. S. Nim. New York: A. Knopf, 1979.
Lecture #12 and #13 – October 14 & 16
LANGUAGE II & III
Required Readings:
Terrace, H. S. Chapter 7, "Language."
Suggested Readings:
Brown, R. Social Psychology. Second Edition. New York: The Free Press. 1986.
Brown, R. A first language: The early stages. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1973.
Fodor, J. A., Bever, T. G. and Garrett, M. F. The psychology of language. New York:
McGrawHill, 1974.
Lyons, J. Chomsky. London: The Chaucer Press, Ltd. Fontana Modern Masters, 1970.
Paperback.
Pinker, S. The Language Instinct. New York: Morrow, 1994.
Slobin, D. Psycholinguistics. Chapter 1, pp. 1-125 (middle).
Chapter 4, pp. 73-92, 100-106.
Chapter 5, pp. 114-133.
Lectures #14, 15 & 16 - October 21, 23, & 28
SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
Required Readings:
Gregory, R.L. Eye and Brain. McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition, 9-24, 37-66, 76-91.
Suggested Readings:
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Herrnstein, R. J. and Boring, E. G. A source book in the history of psychology.
Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1965.
Hochberg, J. E. Perception. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964.
Hubel, D. H. and Wiesel, T. N. "Perceptive fields of single neurons in the cat's striate
cortex."
Journal of Physiology, 1959, pp. 574-591. Irvington reprint #Y-649.
Kling and Riggs. Woodworth and Schlosberg's experimental psychology. New York:
Holt,
Rinehart & Winston, Inc., 1971.
Lettvin, J. Y., Maturana, H. R., McCulloch, W. S. and Pitts, W. H. "What the frog's eye tells
the
frog's brain." Proceedings of the Instit. of radio engineers, 1959, pp. 1940-1951.
Irvington
reprint #Y-667.
Rock, I. Perception, W.H. Freeman, 1986.
Thompson, R. Foundations of physiological psychology. New York: Harper & Row,
1967.
Lectures #17 and #18 – November 6 & 11
MEMORY
Required Readings:
Terrance, H.S. Chapter 10, “Memory.
Suggested Readings:
Gardner, H. The Mind’s New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution. New
York: Basic Books, Inc., 1985.
Herrnstein, R.J. and Boring, E.G. A source book in the history of psychology.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.
Lindsay, R. H. and Norman, D. A. Human information processing: An introduction to
psychology. New York: Academic Press, 1972.
Loftus, E.F. “The malleability of human memory.” American Scientist, 67, 317-320,
1979.
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Lecture #19 – November 13
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Required Readings:
Asch, S. "Opinions and social pressure." Scientific American reprint #450, November,
1955.
ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
Milgram, S. "Behavioral study of obedience." Journal of Abnormal and Social
Psychology. 1963,
pp. 371-378. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
Schachter, S. & Singer, J. "Cognitive, social and physiological determinants of
emotional state."
Psychological Review, 1062, pp. 379-399. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY
LIBRARY.
*NOTE: The movie OBEDIENCE will be shown in class on November 19.
Suggested Readings:
Brown, R. Social Psychology.
Milgram, S. J. Obedience to authority. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Schachter, S. Emotion, obesity and crime. New York: Academic Press, 1971.
Lecture #20 - November 18
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS
Required Readings:
Terrace, H. S. Chapter 12, "Measurement."
Suggested Readings:
Anastasi, A. Psychological testing. New York: Macmillan, 1968. Chapters 4-6. (Ignore
technical
material!).
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Stevens, S. S. Handbook of experimental psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., 1951.
Lecture #21 – November 20
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
Required Readings:
Bever, T. G. and Terrace, H. S. Human behavior.
- Herrnstein, R. J. "I.Q.: Social goals and the genetic heresy," pp. 103-114. ON
RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
- Chomsky, N. "The fallacy of Richard Herrnstein's I.Q.," pp. 115-122. ON
RESERVE
IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
- Herrnstein, R. J. "Whatever happened to vaudeville? Reply to Professor
Chomsky," pp.
123-132. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
- Chomsky, N. "Comments on Herrnstein's response," pp. 133-144. ON RESERVE
IN
PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
- Tyler. The psychology of human differences. Chapter 1, 2 and 4. ON RESERVE
IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
Suggested Readings:
Harvard Educational Review. Environment, heredity and intelligence. Reprint Series
No. 2.
Cambridge: Harvard Educational Review, 1969.
Harvard Education Review. Science, heritability and I.Q. Reprint Series No. 4.
Cambridge:
Harvard Educational Review, 1969.
Herrnstein, R. J. I.Q. in the meritocracy. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1971.
Jensen, A. P. Educability and group differences. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
Layzer, D. "Science of superstition? A physical scientist looks at the I.Q. controversy."
Cognition,
1972, 1, 2/3, 265-299.
Lecture #22- November 25
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Required Readings:
Jackson, D. "Schizophrenia." Scientific American. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY
LIBRARY.
Szasz, T. S. "The myth of mental illness." American Psychologist, 1960, pp. 113-118. ON
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Suggested Readings:
Davison, G. C. & Stuart, R. B (1975). "Behavior Therapy and Civil Liberties." American
Psychologist, 30, 755-763.
Gorenstein, E. E. (1984). "Debating Mental Illness: Implications for Science, Medicine,
and Social
Policy." American Psychologist, 39(1), 50-56.
Mischel, W. Introduction to Personality, 1976, New York: Holt, Rinehart &
Winston.Neale, J. M.
& Oltmanns, T. O. (1980). Schizophrenia. New York: Wiley.
Lecture #23 – December 2
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
Required Readings:
Brady, J. and Lind, D. "Experimental analysis of hysterical blindness." Archives of
General Psychiatry, 1961, pp. 331-339. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
Freud, S. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. Chapters. 27 and 28.
Lazarus, A. A. "The treatment of chronic frigidity by systematic desensitization." The
Journal of
Nervous and Mental Disease, 1963, pp. 272-278. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY
LIBRARY.
Suggested Readings:
Martin, G. & Pear, J. (1983). Behavior Modification: What Is It and How To Do It,
Second
Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Singer, E. Key concepts in psychotherapy. 2nd edition. New York: Basic Books, Inc.,
1970.
Strupp, H. H. (1978). "Psychotherapy Research and Practice: An Overview." In A. E.
Bergin
and S. L. Garfield (Eds.), Handbook of Pychotherapy and Behavior Change: An
Empirical
Analysis, Second Edition. New York: Wiley.
Ullman, L. P. and Krasner, L. A psychological approach to abnormal behavior.
Englewood Cliffs,
NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
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