Note: This schedule is to be used only as a guide. The exact order of material may be changed, or the schedule may differ depending on how quickly we cover the various sections of material.
| Date (approx.) | Topic | Readings | Handouts (in PDF) |
| June 19 a | Introduction to the Course and to Psychology | Chapter 1, pg 2-13 | PPT |
| Note: READ THE SYLLABUS web page!! | |||
| June 19 b | History of Psychology | Chapter 1, pg 2-13 | PPT |
| June 21 a | Research Methods, Measurement, Basic Statistics Concepts | Chapter 1, pg 13-35, Appendix | PPT |
| June 21 b | Research Methods, Measurement, Basic Statistics Concepts | Chapter 1, pg 13-35, Appendix | |
| See also: Phineas Gage Very extensive information. |
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| June 23 a | Biological Basis and Neural Organization | Chapter 2 | PPT |
| See also: Paul Broca Golgi's Nobel Speech, 1906 |
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| June 23 b | Functional Organization of the Brain | Chapter 2 | PPT |
| Digital
Anatomist (first two sections deal with neuroanatomy. Very nice pictures)
Human Brain Disection (really excellent pictures with labeled structures) NeuroTutorials (John Krantz's pages at Hanover) |
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| June 26 a | Neuroscience & Neural Computation | Chapter 2, Chapter 5 | PPT |
| June 26 b | Visual Neuroscience | Chapter 2, Chapter 5 | |
| See also: Hubel & Weisel video (quicktime) David Hubel's Nobel Lecture Vision people mentioned in class: Brian Wandell, Stanford University David Van Essen, Washington University Interesting Links: |
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| See also: Clip of Dr. Gazzaniga and Split Brain Patient An interesting clip of a prosopagnosic, someone that has difficulty recognizing faces Interesting Links: Gazziniga'sLab and Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth A site giving more info on split brain patients, and another one Mike Tarr and his Lab at Brown |
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| See also: Video clip of Capgras delusion Video clip of Temporal lobe epilepsy patient Brain and Emotion (a very long but fascinating article on brain structures involved in emotional experience) |
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| June 28 a | Sleep, Motivation and Learning |
Chapter 3, 4 | PPT |
| June 28 b | More on Learning |
Chapter 3, 4 | PPT |
| See also: Dr. Dement! - This pageis a gold mine for finding out more about all things related to sleep. A short snippet on dreams (34 mb) A little clip on Pavlov, it's a bit overcompressed but not bad... Note: For Motivation section, be sure to read text book |
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| June 30 a | Sensation and Perception I (Vision & Hearing) | Chapter 5, 6 | PPT (2.6MB!!) |
| See also: I have many links on my Sensation and Perception Links page. Gustav Fechner is an important figure in psychophysics. Oddly enough, there is little on Fechner in English, so if you can read German this page is ok: Gustav Theodor Fechner |
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| June 30 b | Sensation and Perception II (Vision & Hearing) | Chapter 5, 6 | |
| Also note: We will have a choice of what "extra" sensation
and perception topics to cover. Auditory pathology, speech, touch, pain,
smell, taste, flavor, are all on the menu...so think about what you want
to learn about, and tell me in class today. |
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| July 03 a | Sensation and Perception III (Other Main Senses) | Chapter 3, 4, 5, 6 | |
| Balance, Pain, Taste, Smell, Flavor, etc. (see slides) | |||
| July 03 b | Sensation and Perception: Applied | Chapter 3, 4, 5, 6 | |
| Sports, work, etc. See also: Eye movements during Digital Dance Revolution (fast) (slow) - Thanks to John Henderson, Michigan State University |
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| July 05 a | Exam 1 | ||
| In class, closed book, multiple choice. |
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| July 05 b | Pattern Recognition (following the exam) | Chapter 6 | PPT |
| See also: Oodles of visual illusions with explanations (requires some flash, some java, and other stuff) Perception: An introduction to Gestalt Theory - Kurt Koffka (original article published in 1922) A little snippet on vision. Great soundtrack (that's sarcasm...) (17mb) Speech Perception at the HaskinsLab at Yale Sinewave speech and the more general page for these demos here Categorical Perception Other stuff at Haskins |
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| July 07 a | Memory | Chapter 7 | PPT |
| See also: Parallel Distributed Processing / Connectionism / Neural Network Links James McClelland - one of the original researchers on the question of word superiority effects and PDP models Software for building PDP style models - very cool... The Java Interactive Activation Model - a minimodel of the word superiority effect |
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| July 07 b | Thoughts and Concepts | Chapter 8 | PPT |
| See also: Mike Posner at University of Oregon Change Blindness demostrations by Daniel Simons of University of Illinois |
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| July 10 a | Reasoning and Decision Making | Chapter 8 | PPT |
| See also: Clip on Clive the amnesiac. Very highly recommended. People whose work was mentioned in class today: Randy O'Reilly - computational modeling of memory functions inhippocampus and neocortex Alan Baddeley Brenda Milner- She was one of the scientists to describe one of the original cases of memory disfunction due to hippocampal lesions (in a patient famously known as HM) Donald O. Hebb - psychologist/neuroscientist pioneer. |
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| July 10 b | More on Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making | ||
| Everyday aspects of this topic | |||
| July 12 a | Language | Chapter 9 | PPT |
| July 12 b | Language and Thought | Chapter 9 | |
| See also: The Bacon Oracle Small world networks - NY Times article (requires free registration), American Math. Soc. Release Al Barabasi- small world networks in the World Wide Web Latent Semantic Analysis -Check out the Automated essay grader... Hyperdimensional Analog to Language (HAL) |
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| July 14 a | Cognitive Development | Chapter 12 | PPT |
| See also: Daniel Kahneman (ground breaking work with Amos Tversky on decision making), now a Nobel winner Amos Tversky (d. 1996) Rate which of the following pairs as more likely/common cause of death: Lung Cancer vs Motor vehicle accident; Emphysema vs homicide; Tuberculosis vs Fire and Flames |
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| July 14 b | Cognitive Development / Intelligence | Chapter 12 | |
| A couple of interesting video clips on language development:
Acquisition - this discusses the ideas of Chomsky and also the role of social interaction, especially with Mothers in helping bootstrap language acquisition. Stages - this discusses the basic stages of language acquisition from early exposure, babbling, one and two word utterances. Statistical learning - Here are sound demos that suggest that infants (and tamarins) can learn the sequential probabilities that can guide the segmentation of the speech stream into words. Stream - here the phonetic segments are played continuously and "words" are those sequences of segments that are consistent (e.g., tudaro) and nonwords are those that are not consistent (pabiku). Consistency here means that /tu/,/da/, and /ro/ always appear together, where as /pa/, /bi/, and /ku/ occur together sometimes but often they don't. Infants pick up on this and it probably is critical in getting the word learning process started. This work is from the lab of Jennifer Saffran(Wisconsin), and Richard Aslin (U of Rochester) |
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| July 17 | NO CLASS | ||
| July 19 a | Intelligence | Chapter 14 | PPT |
| See also: Eye tracking studies of ambiguity resolution Adult ambiguous Adult ambiguous Adult unambiguous 5 year old, ambiguous 5 year old, unambiguous These clips from the lab of John Trueswell (U of Pennsylvania) |
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| July 19 b | Social Development Sexual Orientation |
Chapter 13 |
PPT PPT |
| See also: Harlow's wire and cloth monkeys American Psychological Association's page on Sexual Orientation |
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| July 21 a | Exam 2 | ||
| July 21 b | Personality (after the exam) | Chapter 15 | PPT |
| See also: Video clip on development of "Theory of Mind" |
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| July 24 a | Attitudes & Beliefs | Chapter 10 | PPT |
| July 24 b | Emotion | Chapter 11 | PPT |
| See also: |
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| July 26 a | Social Context | Chapter 10, 11 | PPT |
| July 26 b | Social Context | Chapter 10, 11 | |
| See also: Darryl Bem's pages at the Cornell Department of Psychology Bem's original Psychological Review paper (extremely well written and in depth discussion of his theory) An interesting true story about Darryl and Sandy Bem's kids (related more to gender roles really) |
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| July 28 a | Psychopathology I | Chapter 16 | PPT |
| July 28 b | Psychopathology II | Chapter 17 | |
| July 31 | Final Exam - Monday, 2:50-5:40pm | ||