Psychology Syllabus 2008-2009 Course content-The class will be taught as a survey class. All areas and assignments are designed for high school juniors and seniors. Our base reference material will be the following online source: http://allpsych.com/psychology101/learning.html Additional reference work will come from http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsy.html 1. Introduction to Psychology and Research Methods Qualitative methods http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyqualmeth.html Experiments http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/experiments.html 2. Biopsychology Neurons http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/theneuron.html Neurotransmitters http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyneurotransmitters.html Central Nervous System http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyneurotransmitters.html Brain http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/thebrain.html 3. Personality Development Freud http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyfreud.html Kohlberg http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsymoraldev.html Piaget http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsypiaget.html Erikson http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyerikson.html 4. Learning and Behaviorial Psychology Learning http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsylearning.html 5. Sensation and Perception Perception http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyperception.html Senses http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/senses.html 6. Memory, Intelligence, and States of Mind Memory http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/memory.html Intelligence http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/intelligence.html 7. Motivation and Emotion Motivation http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsymotivation.html Emotion http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/emotions.html 8. Social Psychology http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/socpsy.html 9. Psychopathology Disorders http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/genpsyanxietydisorders.html 10.Psychotherapy Therapy http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/psychotherapy.html Psychology Assignments 1. Chapter homework-vocabulary and worksheets 2. Chapter quizzes 3. Chapter tests-essays, multiple choice, or true/false 4. Weekly magazine article summaries-25 points each 5. Short Paper Project-2 to 3 page typed paper. Three sources to be used when citing for the paper. Each topic will be used once. Topics for the term paper: 1. Should animals be used in psychological research? 2. Does genetic testing have negative psychological effects? 3. Does spanking children lead them to become more violent? 4. Does viewing television increase a child’s aggression? 5. Is there a racial difference in intelligence? 6. Have antidepressant drugs proven to be effective? 7. Is schizophrenia a biological disorder? 8. Does the Internet have psychological benefits? 9. Does religious commitment improve mental health? 10. Does population growth threaten humanity? 11. Is the decline of the traditional family a national crisis? 12. Is America in moral decline? 13. Are communication problems between men and women largely due to radically different conversation styles? 14. Should society be more accepting of homosexuality? 15. Are the poor largely responsible for their poverty?