Week 1 – September 5 - 9

  Monday (Class begins at 10:30a) –  On Bullshit & a movie  

             Reading:       Frankfurt,  On Bullshit

             Afternoon movie: (2:00p)—Tutt Science, 301 

Tuesday –  Perceiving

            Readings:       Munger:        Plato, The Cave, pp 2-4.

                                    Munger:        Aristotle, De Anima, Book III.1-6, pp. 22-29.

                                    Munger:         Locke, An essay concerning human understanding, 
                                                                 Of perception, Chap. IX, pp. 87-90.            

             Assignment due:       3-page paper on "Reality"

            Afternoon (1:15p):      Library Orientation, TLC-1

Wednesday –  Seeing (Color)

            Readings:       OR:                  Newton, On the colour circle

                                    OR:                  Young, On Newton and the excitation of the retina 
                                                                        by colours

                                    OR:                  Helmholtz, On the three-colour theory of vision and 
                                                                        visual specific nerve energies

            Assignment due:        Library orientation

Afternoon (1:00p):     Perception Lab  

Thursday –  Psychophysics & Signal Detection

Readings:       OR:                   Weber, On Weber’s law

Munger:           Fechner, Elements of psychophysics, 
Chaps. II., III., & VI., pp. 145-148, 150-154.

Web page:       Heeger, Signal Detection Theory

             Afternoon (1:00p):      Learning Lab

Friday –   The Problem of Context

Readings:       Munger:           Wertheimer, Laws of organization in perceptual forms, 
pp. 314-323.

                        Munger:           Gibson, The ecological approach to visual perception, 
pp. 468-477.

Monday –   Memory & Forgetting

            Readings:       OR:                  Aristotle, On the associative nature of memory

                                    Munger:         Saint Augustine of Hippo, Book X, Memory, 
                                                                      pp. 35-46.

                                    Munger:         Hume, An inquiry concerning human understanding, 
                                                                   Sections II & III, pp114-119.

           Assignment due:          Topic of Interest paper  

Tuesday –  Beginnings, Experimental & Case-studies

            Readings:      Munger:         Ebbinghaus, Memory, pp. 169-177.

                                   OR:                 Luria, The mind of a mnemonist

                                   OR:                Hunter, An exceptional memory

                                   OR:                Sacks, The lost mariner 

            Afternoon (1:00p):     Memory Lab

Wednesday –  Cognitive Approach

            Readings:       Munger:         Neisser, Cognitive Psychology, pp. 447-466.

                                    OR:                  Glanzer & Cunitz, Two storage mechanisms in free recall

                                    OR:                  Rundus & Atkinson, Rehearsal processes in free recall

Thursday –  Reconstructing Memory

            Readings:       Munger:          Bartlett, Remembering, pp 430-446.

                                    OR:                  Neisser, John Dean’s Memory

OR:                  Loftus & Palmer, Reconstruction of automobile destruction

            Afternoon (1:00p):     Review           

Friday –                                                 Mid-Block Exam

Monday –  Adaptive Behavior

            Readings:       Munger:           Descartes, Treatise of man, pp. 68-80.

                                    OR:                  Darwin, Instincts.

           Assignment due:       Empirical Summary paper

Tuesday –  Conditioning!

Readings:       CHP:               Thorndike, Animal intelligence, Chap. 2, 
(Just the experiment on cats)  
(pages 1-18 printable.)

                                    CHP:              Pavlov, Conditional reflexes, Lecture II.

CHP:              Watson and Rayner, Conditioned emotional reaction  

Wednesday –  Conditioning?

            Readings:       CHP:              Skinner, Superstition in the pigeon

OR:                 Rescorla, Predictability and number of pairings 
in Pavlovian fear conditioning

                                    CHP:              Breland & Breland, The misbehavior of organisms

OR:                 Garcia & Koelling, Relation of cue to consequence 
in avoidance learning  

Thursday –  Emotion

Readings:      Munger:          Darwin, Expression of the emotions in man and animals, 
pp. 189-202.

Friday –  Social Behavior

            Readings:       CHP:              Harlow, The nature of love  

                                    OR:                 de Waal, How animals do business

                                    OR:                 Sigmund, Fehr & Nowak, The economics of fair play  

Monday –  Social Behavior?

              Reading:        OR:      Asch, Opinions and social pressure

                                    OR:      Darley & Latané, Bystander intervention in emergencies     

Tuesday –  Presentations and Review

           Assignment due:  Literature Summary paper

Wednesday –                                           Mid-Course Exam

Week 5 – October 3 - 7

Monday – 9 am:

Orientation to Block 2
Neuroanatomy

Readings:

Munger: Hippocrates (~400 BC). The nature of man.

Munger: Review Descartes (1650). Treatise of man.

1 pm: Meet with John regarding Block 1 grades

Tuesday – 9 am:

Neuroanatomy

Readings:

OR: Restak (1994). Chap. 2, “The Brain” in Receptors.

CHP: Broca [English translation] (1861). Loss of speech, chronic softening and partial destruction of the anterior left lobe of the brain.

1 pm: Neuroanatomy Lab in Room 313

Wednesday – 9 am:

Neuroanatomy & Sensation

Reading:

OR: Kolb, Gibb & Robinson (2003). Brain plasticity and behavior.

Thursday – 9 am:

Consciousness and Recreational Drugs

Readings:

OR: Smith (1941). Alcoholics Anonymous.

OR: Marlatt & Witkiewitz (2002). Harm reduction approaches to alcohol use: Health promotion, prevention, and treatment.

Assignment due: Neuroanatomy Lab Due

1 pm: Meet with Debate Team

Friday – 9 - 11 am:

Consciousness and Recreational Drugs

Readings:

OR: Rivas-Vasquez & Delgado (2002). Clinical and toxic effects of MDMA (“Ecstasy”).

OR: Crombag & Robinson (2004). Drugs, environment, brain, and behavior. 

1 pm: Debate: Is alcoholism a disease?

Week 6 – October 10 - 14

Monday – 9 am:

Development

Readings:

CHP: Darwin (1877). A biographical sketch of an infant.

Munger: Piaget (1923). The language and thought of the child.

         Introduce Development Lab

Tuesday – 9 am:

Development

Readings:

OR: Spear (2000). Neurobehavioral changes in adolescence.

OR: Wilson & Bennett (2003). Cognitive activity and risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Wednesday – 9 am:

Intelligence

Readings:

CHP: Thorndike (1911). The evolution of the human intellect.

Munger: Binet & Simon (1905). New methods for the diagnosis of the intellectual level of subnormals.

Thursday – 9 am:

Intelligence

Readings:

OR: Flynn (1999). Searching for justice: The discovery of IQ gains over time.

OR: Hacker (1995). Caste, crime, and precocity.

Development Lab Individual Data Due

Friday – 9 am:

Exam III

Pick up Development Lab Class Data

Week 7 – October 17 - 21

Monday – 9 am:

Personality

Development Lab Due

Readings:

CHP: Allport & Allport (1921). Personality traits: Their classification and measurement.

OR: Gosling & John (1999). Personality dimensions in nonhuman animals: A cross-species review.

Introduce Personality Lab

Tuesday – 9 am:

Personality

Readings:

OR: Cervone & Shoda (1999). Beyond traits in the study of personality coherence.

OR: Harris (2000). Context-specific learning, personality, and birth order.

Personality Lab Individual Data Due

Wednesday – 9 am:

Psychopathology

Readings:

CHP: Watson (1916). Behavior and the concept of mental disease.

CHP: Szasz (1960). The myth of mental illness.

Pick up Personality Lab Class Data

Thursday – 9 am:

Psychopathology

Readings:

OR: Nolen-Hoeksema (2001). Gender differences in depression.

OR: Conklin & Iacono (2002). Schizophrenia: A neurodevelopmental perspective.

Friday – 9 am:

Psychotherapies

Readings:

CHP: Rogers (1946). Significant aspects of client-centered therapy.

OR: Rush & Beck (1977). Cognitive therapy of depression and suicide.

Personality Lab Due

Week 8 – October 24 - 26

Monday – 9 am:

Psychotherapy / Pharmacotherapy

Readings:

OR: Restak (1994). Chap. 5, “Lethargy in a Guinea Pig” in Receptors.

OR: Restak (1994). Chap. 7, “The Anatomy of Melancholia” in Receptors.

Tuesday – 9 am:

Pharmacotherapies

Readings:

OR: Restak (1994). Chap. 13, “Mother’s Little Helper” in Receptors.

Wednesday – 9 am:

Final Exam

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