Most assignments are given in class or in the Course Materials Packet

The assignments below are the ones assigned in class to do on-line. To get credit, put the last four digits of your student ID (CWID) in the comments box. Some of these materials are notes to help you study or perceptual demonstrations to experience, rather than items for credit. For example, notes on the history of medicine are included to help you organize what has been presented in class that is not in Kalat's book; these will help you be able to analyze the "medical model" of mental illness.

1. Columbus Debated the Scholars (Powerpoint)
2. Logic Test
3. Personality Questionnaire
4. Eliza, the Rogerian Therapist. Tell her your problems.
5. Philosophy of Science: Basic Terms (PowerPoint)
6. Theory of Unverifiable Brownies (Powerpoint)
7. Discovering Psychology: Free Video on Demand: View Programs #21 and #22:Psychopathology and Psychotherapy. (Take notes and expect quiz and exam items on these videos; e.g., What are the purposes of psychodiagnosis (#21)? What are the major categories of psychopathology? What are the 4 major types of medical/biological therapies and what are the 4 major types of psychological therapies (#22)? What evidence did you see in #22 on the effects of psychotherapy?
8. Notes on History of Medicine
9. Discovering Psychology: View Program #8 on Learning. Take notes and prepare for quiz and exam items on this video. For example, why did the rats die when drinking sweet water? Use the terminology of learning in your answer.
10. Notes on History of Astronomy
11. Link to Kalat Web site--practice tests, flash cards and more. When exams are assigned, print out and turn in p. 1 only. Do pretest, multiple choice test, and post-test for Chapters 2 (Research Methods) and Chapter 6 (Learning) Do NOT send as e-mail!!!
12. Review this before Exam 1
13. Study Guide: Review Questions
14. Practice Quiz (Do this before Exam 1 for practice)
15. Links to Statistics Reviews
16. Against All Odds: Inside Statistics. View Program # 1. For homework: identify the Independent Variable and Dependent Variable of the experiment on rewards and creativity.

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17. Three systems for Assigning Grades to Exam Scores
18. Links to Statistics Reviews
19. Link to Against All Odds: Inside Statistics--View program #9 on Correlation. For homework: What is the sign of the correlation between home runs and strike outs? What was the finding of the Coleman report that surprised the researchers on that report?
20. Discovering Psychology: View Programs #3 and #4 on the Brain. Take notes on these videos and expect quiz items and exam items on this material.
21. Link to Kalat Web site--practice tests, flash cards and more. When exams are assigned, print out and turn in p. 1 only. Do pretest, multiple choice test, and post-test for Chapter 9 (Intelligence), Chapter 3 (Brain/ Physiological Psychology/ Biological Psychology), Chapter 4 (Sensation-Perception) Do NOT send as e-mail!!!
22. Discovering Psychology: View Programs #5 and #6 on Development. Take notes on these videos and expect quiz items and/or exam items on this material.
23. Blind Spot Homework Assignment and Emmert Law Assignment
24. Discovering Psychology: View Program #7 on Sensation-Perception. Take notes on these videos and expect quiz items and exam items on this material.
25. The following Assignments are for Sensation and Perception
    • Perception Slides for Psych 101
    • Mach Bands Demonstration Look closely at the borders between shades. You will see that the color differences are exaggerated. Although the physical pattern is a step function, you see contrast at the edges. These are called Mach bands.
    • To view the next demonstration, you need to install the the Free Macromedia/Adobe Flash Player (Plug-in)
      • Wallach Demonstration Note that the square does not change in luminance, but its color seems to change as the background changes.
    • Mueller-Lyer Experiment Do this experiment. Measure the magnitude of the illusion.
    • Parallelogram-tabletop illusion. These table tops are parallelograms and the two tables have the same parallelogram. However, they both look like trapezoids and the dimension of depth is increased. Trace the tables to convince yourself that the tops are parallelograms and that they are the same.
    • Ponzo Illusion
    • Michael Bach: 87 Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena
    • Sensation-Perception Tutorials
    • Size-Constancy Tutorial
    • Link to Tutorials and Demonstrations by John Krantz
26. Discovering Psychology: View Programs #9 and #10 on Memory and Cognitive Processes.
27. Discovering Psychology: View Program #11 on Judgment and Decision Making.
28. Discovering Psychology: View Programs #19 and #20 on Social Psychology. Prof. Zimbardo specializes in Social Psychology and is famous for the "Stanford prison study." How does that study relate to recent US History? Expect quiz and exam items on topics of these videos.
29. Link to Kalat Web site--practice tests, flash cards and more. When exams are assigned, print out and turn in p. 1 only. Do Final Exam at Kalat site. Do not email.
30. Study Guide: Review Questions: Last Segment of Course
31. What to Study for Final Exam

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