General Psychology Fall Psychology 100 Dr. Thomas Link Winter 2014 tlink@pierce.ctc.edu Office hours: Daily 10:15-10:45, 12:15-12:45 and by appt. Office: Olympic 311 Late papers accepted with penalty: message beforehand makes a big difference. 253 964 6316 To buy textbook: https://students.flatworldknowledge.com/course/1518343 To download reader: www.pierce.ctc.edu/staff/tlink/general/reader/ To take online exams, do extra credit, and view useful extra material: https://pierce.instructure.com/ To view examples of psychology topics: psychologyexamples.wikispaces.com/ Schedule and Exams: There are 8 take home questions and 2 online multiple choice exams. Each is worth 100 points. Take home exams: You receive a set of take home exam questions once a week with a break in weeks 6 and 8. You choose one question each week to answer. It is due the about 3 class days later. Most people write 4-6 paragraphs for their answer. On line exams: multiple choice exams taken on the angel on-line system. You can skip one of the 10 exams, either take home or online, or drop your lowest score. If your response to "I'm not sure what we're supposed to be taking notes on" is to stop and wait for it to become clear, you'll have difficulties in this class. Ask, now. Textbook: I am using an adaptation of Charles Stangor s Introduction to Psychology, version 1.0.14. It is sold in either an electronic (e-book) or print format. There are many options, you choose. https://students.flatworldknowledge.com/course/1518343 Reader: There also is a reader that is required. You can only get the reader as a download in pdf from the Angel website. Go to http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/staff/tlink/general/reader/ You can download and print it. If you bring a tablet, laptop, etc. to class daily you can download and not print it as we use the reader often in class. Some students have managed with a phone with a large screen. January 6 First day of online course instruction January 20 No Class/ College Closed: Martin Luther King Day February 17 No Class/ College Closed: Presidents Day February 20 Last day to withdraw Winter Quarter March 18 Last day of Winter Quarter instruction March 19-21 Finals - Winter Quarter
Schedule of Readings: Reading should be read before class on date assigned. page 2 Dates Topics Reading Mon Jan 6 Guidelines for asking psychological questions, question Tues Jan 7 More on questions & Client Centered Therapy Learning Styles W F Jan 8-10 Learning Styles Chapter 2 Week 2 Social Psychology: Jan 13-17 Helping, Influence, and Week 3 Jan 21- Mon Jan 27 Mon Jan 20 MLK Day Week 4 Tues Jan 28 Mon Feb 3 Week 5 Tues Feb 4 Mon Feb 10 Week 6 Tues Feb 11 Tues Feb 18 Mon Feb 17 Pres Day Week 7 Wed Feb 19 Tues Feb 25 Week 8 Wed Feb 26 Tues Mar 4 Week 9 Wed Mar 5 Tues Mar 11 Week 10 Wed Mar 12 Tues Mar 18 Finals Wed Mar 19 Fri Mar 21 Obedience Anxiety Disorders Classical Conditioning Cognitive Therapy Research Methods Social Psychology: Stereotypes Brain Areas Therapeutic Alliance Disorders: Depression Therapy Medications Schemas: Piaget Schemas: Memory Personality Visual Perception, Schizophrenia, Medications and Sleeping No scheduled class Email me about someone in a Bingo box. Send follow up Mother-Father Deaf Handout Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 & Barnett & Jones in Reader Chapter 4 & Case Handout Ch 5, March in Reader & Handout Chapter 6 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 & Sapolsky in Reader Chapter 9 & Story Handout Chapter 10 & Seuss in Reader Chapter 11 Chapter 12 & Garrett and Powell in Reader Chapter 13 & Steele & Marx in Reader Last take home will be due Thur 20 Canvas: Pierce College switched from Angel to Canvas for its online classes and web enhancements for regular classes. At https://pierce.instructure.com/ you take multiple choice exams for week 6 & 8 (required), do some extra credit, and check your grades.
page 3 Grades: Each take home question and multiple choice exam is worth 100 points, the skipped or lowest is dropped, for 700 points total. Divide by 7 for percent. Use the scale to convert to decimal grade. I use all points on the scale (3.9, 3.8, etc.). Late Paper policy: 3% per weekday, up to 20%, then after 4 weeks: maximum score is 65%. Percent Point Letter Percent Point Letter 95-100% 4.0 A 75% 2.0 C 92% 3.7 A- 72% 1.7 C- 88% 3.3 B+ 68% 1.3 D+ 85% 3.0 B 65% 1.0 D 82% 2.7 B- 60% 0.7 D- 78% 2.3 C+ <60% 0.0 F Supporting or Detracting from Other s Learning (Attendance and Participation Grade) I adjust the final grade from +0.3 to 0.3 based on attendance and participation. If you wildly violate the expectations below, the change may be greater. Individually, make ups and other arrangements will be made based upon your pattern of behavior. As a class, it will be used in determining whether your test grades are curved or not. Attendance will be taken regularly at the beginning of the quarter, then occasionally throughout the rest of the quarter. I am looking for a pattern of behavior. Underlying idea: I expected you to work with your classmates for their benefit as well as yours. Things that help: You get credit for helping develop other classmates thinking, by applying concepts to their experiences, by comparing and contrasting experiences, and the like. You can do this by asking questions as well providing answers. Being prepared when you come; keeping group on track; do overnight handouts; ask questions about what you don t understand based on reading. Things that don t: missed days; coming late; being disruptive when late; talking loud enough and often to disrupt people around you; getting group off track Expectations: I expect that you show up. I design the preparatory assignments and worksheets with an idea about how you will think in order to do them, not just what marks you will make on the paper. Try to see what you re supposed to be thinking about. I expect that you make an honest effort to get most or all the work done most or all of the days of class. I expect you to come even when you haven t done all or any of the work. I expect to question you to see what you understand and can do. If it shows a weakness or area you need to improve on, I ask that you take that as feedback to improve, rather than an attack on your ability as a student. I know that is hard. I expect that your lives are complex and that school is not always your first priority. I expect that sometimes this class is your first priority, over other classes and other parts of your life: job, friends, and family. I expect that when it s not a priority you ll still be thinking about how you ll get an idea of what s going on and have a plan for completing your work, and to
communicate your best idea at the time to me. Call ahead of time, even if it s the morning that the exam is due. Leave a message with your current plan. I expect students who earn A s (3.5 and above) to be pondering the ideas discussed in class and discuss them with friends, co-workers, family, etc. Access and Disability Services (ACS) If you are a student with a disability and believe you may need academic adjustments, auxiliary aids or services to fully participate in course activities or meet course requirements, please make an appointment with me or the Access and Disability Services Coordinator to discuss these accommodations. The Access and Disability Services (ACS) Needs Office is located in the Welcome Center (964-6460, TTY 964-6228). Students requesting accommodations must obtain the Approved Quarterly Academic Adjustments, Auxiliary Aids or Services (green) form provided by ADS. Many excellent resources are available to help meet the needs of students. Grading Policies 1. Back-up Curve : There is a back-up curve that will be used only if the class does poorly in terms of final course grades, i.e., it will be used only if more than half the class receives a course grade below 2.5. In this event, everyone s course grade will be curved up until 50% of the class receives a 2.5 or higher. If 50% or more of the class is getting a 2.5 or above, then no curve will be used. 2. Incompletes: Only students with special circumstances beyond their control who have obtained permission from me are eligible for a grade of Incomplete. 3. Withdrawing: You may withdraw from the class without it showing on your transcript through the end of the 3rd week of classes. After that, it will show up on the transcript. The last day to withdraw is in the 7th week of classes. The W grade is not used in GPA calculations. When in doubt, communicate with me. 4. Academic Honesty: Cases of cheating plagiarism, or other forms of academic dishonesty are unacceptable in this course and are subject to disciplinary action. Looking at another student s on line exam or showing them yours before the test is closed will result in a zero for the exam, referral for discipline to Director of Student Success, and possible failure of the course. If you plagiarize, the highest grade you can get in the class is a 1.4. 5. Emergency Procedures: For life-threatening emergencies call 911 and then Campus Safety. In the event of an emergency evacuation, gather all personal belongings and leave the building using the nearest safe exit. Be prepared to be outside for a minimum of an hour and stand a minimum of 200 feet from any building or structure. Do not attempt to re-enter the building until instructed. Should a class be cancelled, it is your responsibility to keep up on reading, homework and deliverable assignments. page 4
page 5 Errata Add this page to your textbook In Chapter 3, Section 1 of the textbook there s a paragraph I dictated voice-to-text and clearly forgot to proofread. Here is a version of that paragraph that makes sense. Here s what it should say. Sometimes in foot-in-the-door the first request is not explicit. Somebody doesn't say, Can I borrow? It's more an implicit request. We see this in the bystander effect when an authority may simply ask you not to notice something. They don't directly ask you, Please don't notice, they imply that noticing would cost you. In a scene we usually watch in class from Hotel Rwanda a soldier glares at Paul and his wife Tatiana and his brother-in-law while they are watching the soldiers take away a neighbor. The request really is Don't look. Once we ve agreed to this request, the request will be to avoid much greater emergencies and go along with the new rules or the new violence. The key to foot-in-the-door there is a first request followed by a second request that is larger. This is different than reciprocity. In foot-in-the-door I ask, Can I borrow your pen? and then they I ask to borrow your phone. Did I ever give you anything? No. Reciprocity, sometimes called tit-for-tat, occurs when I give you something, you give me something. Reciprocity is the glue that holds most societies together. If you take anthropology you'll see it's one of the main concepts they ll talk about. It develops over time and really binds us to our social group. Sometimes in foot-in-the-door the first request is not explicit. That is, somebody doesn't say, Can I borrow? It is a more implicit request. We see this in the bystander effect when an authority may simply ask you not to notice something. They don't directly ask you, Please don't notice, they imply that noticing would cost you. In Hotel Rwanda a soldier glares at Paul, his wife and brother-in-law while they are watching the soldiers take away Paul s neighbor. The request really is, Don't look. The second request will be to ignore much greater emergencies and go along with the new rules for the new violence.