
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
Introduction to Social Psychology & its Research Methods (Chapter 1)
The Self & Personality (Chapter 2)
Social Perception & Cognition
(Chapter 3)
TEST #1 (Wednesday, September 30th)
Attitude Formation and Change (Chapters 4 & 7)
Prejudice
& Discrimination (Chapter 9 and
pages 483-505)
TEST #2 (Friday, October 16th)
Social Influence (Chapter 6)
Sex, Love, & Attraction (Chapter 11)
TEST #3 (Monday, November 2nd)
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
British Journal of Social Psychology
European Journal of 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, September 21st.
Practice Abstract Assignment - Write an abstract for the article entitled Guns, testosterone, and aggression by Klinesmith, Kasser, & McAndrew; Due on Monday, September 28th.
Assignment #2 - Write an abstract for the article entitled Intelligence and mate choice: Intelligent men are always appealing by M. D. Prokosch, R. G. Coss, J. E. Scheib, & S. A. Blozis. Due Wednesday, October 7th.
Assignment
#3 - Write an abstract for the article entitled Student
atletes claim to have more sexual partners than other students by C.
Faurie, D. Pontier, & M. Raymond. Due Wednesday, October 21st.
Assignment #4 - Write an abstract for the article entitled Celebratory drinking and intoxication by K. E. Glindeman, et al; Due Wednesday, November 4th.
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 half hour that you participate in. However, no one will earn
more
than 8 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.
