Spring, 2008
Textbook: Social Psychology, 9th Ed., by David G.
Myers. OFFICIAL
WEBSITE FOR THE TEXT:
http://www.mhhe.com/myers9
Psychology Department Web Page
Encyclopedia of Social Psychology
Resources for Teaching Social Psychology
Inroduction to Social Psychology & its Research Methods (Chapter 1)
Social Perception & Cognition
(Chapter 3)
TEST #1 (Wednesday, April 16)
Attitude Formation and Change (Chapters 4 & 7)
Prejudice
& Discrimination (Chapter 9 and
pages 483-505)
TEST #2 (Friday, May 2)
Social Influence (Chapter 6)
Sex, Love, & Attraction (Chapter 11)
TEST #3 (Wednesday, May 19)
Group Behavior (Chapter 8)
Helping Behavior (Chapter 12)
Aggression (Chapter 10)
Applied Social Psychology - Reading TBA
Letter Grades for the course will be assigned as follows:
A = 93-100%, A- = 90-92%, B+ = 88-89%, B = 83-87%, B- = 80-82%, C+ = 78-79%, C = 73-77%, C- = 70-72%, D+ = 68-69%, D = 63-67%, D- = 60-61%, F = Need I say more?
The
written projects will acquaint you with the way in which social
psychologists conduct research and communicate their results to each
other. In the first assignment, you will learn how research results are
presented in psychological journals by reading and critiquing a journal
article. The article that you read will be chosen from one of the
following journals available in the Knox libraries either on-line or on
the shelves:
Basic and Applied Social Psychology
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Journal of Personality
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Journal of Social Psychology
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Sex Roles
Social Psychology Quarterly
The format for the critique that you will write will be given to you in class - You will also be required to submit a photocopy of the article that you critique. For the other three assignments, you will read an assigned journal article and write an abstract for that article. The abstract SHALL NOT EXCEED 130 words or points will be taken off. There are a variety of goals for the assignments in which you will write abstracts. You will not be able to write an effective abstract unless you have carefully read and understood the article, identified its important points, and know how to use language very concisely in communicating the results of the article to others. These are very valuable skills in almost all academic fields, not just in psychology. Each assignment (the journal critique AND the abstracts) will be worth 10 points.
Due Dates for each of the Assignments will be as follows:
Assignment #1 - Critique of a Journal Article, Due Monday, April 7th.
Practice Abstract Assignment - Write an abstract for the article entitled Guns, testosterone, and aggression by Klinesmith, Kasser, & McAndrew; Due on Monday, April 14th.
Assignment #2 - Write an abstract for the article entitled Moniker Maladies: When names sabotage success by L. D. Nelson & J. P. Simmons. Due Wednesday, April 23rd.
Assignment #3 - Write an abstract for the article entitled Handgrip strength predicts sexual behavior, body morphology, and aggression in male college students by A. C. Gallup, et al; Due Wednesday, May 7th .
Assignment #4 - Write an abstract for the article entitled Celebratory drinking and intoxication by K. E. Glindeman, et al; Due Wednesday, May 21st.
For
the first assignment (the critique of the journal article), you will
locate your own article. When writing the abtsracts, everyone will work
from the same articles and they have been placed on reserve at the desk
in the SMC Library - ask for them by title.
PARTICIPATION
IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
By
participating in research projects being conducted in our deprtment,
you can earn bonus points (extra credit). You are free to
particpate in as many studies as you like, and you will earn one point
for each study you participate in. However, no one will earn
more
than 6 points through research participation. If you
volunteer to
participate in an experiment and fail to show up, one point will be
DEDUCTED from your grade.
To
see copies of the powerpoint slides that were
used in the lectures for this course, click on the picture of the
overhead projector.
