Brain Myths Schedule

 

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Course Schedule

Date

Topic/Activity

Reading(s)

9/3

á    Overview and Intro

á    What is Folk Psychology?

LECTURE NOTES 1

 

9/10

MOVIE: Defending Your Life (2001)

 

9/17

Thought paper 1 is due

á    Do you more than 10% of your brain?

á    Basics of brain anatomy & function

LECTURE NOTES 2

á    Beyerstein (1999)

á    Damasio et al. (1990)

á    Mayer et al. (2008)

9/24

MOVIE: At First Sight (1999)

 

10/1

Thought paper 2 is due

á    What you see is what you get?

LECTURE NOTES 3

á    Sacks (1993)

á    Weisel (1982)

á    Ostrovsky et al. (2006)

10/8

á    Are you a Left-Brain or a Right-Brain?

á    Hemispheric Differences

LECTURE NOTES 4

á    Gazzaniga (2005)

á    Josse & Tzourio-Mazoyer (2004).

10/15

Thought paper 3 is due

á    IQ testing and Flowers for Algernon

LECTURE NOTES 5

á    Exam review  Review Outline (very basic)

á    Flowers for Algernon

á    Spreen et al. (1995)

á    Sternberg (1996)

á    Jaeggi et al. (2008)

10/22

á    2:00-3:15: EXAM 1

á    3:30pm: VIDEOS: Baby Einstein

 

10/29

Thought paper 4 is due

á    Feral children & Magic Hour

á    Making Smarter Babies

LECTURE NOTES 6

á    Steele et al. (1999)

á    Knudsen (2004)

á    Park (2007)

á    Zimmerman et al. (2007)

11/5

MOVIE: Memento (2000)

 

11/12

Thought paper 5 is due

á    Amnesia and memory systems

LECTURE NOTES 7

á    Squire et al. (1993)

á    Packard & McGaugh (1996)

á    Corkin (2002)

11/19

MOVIE: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

 

12/3

Thought paper 6 is due

á    Can we wipe out memories?

á    Wixted (2004)

á    Forcato et al. (2007)

á    Loftus (2005)

12/12

2:00-5:00pm Final Exam AMES 234

NOTE THIS CHANGE

Note: Movies in this course are R-rated for various reasons, including language, sexual content, violence, and nudity.  They are shown unedited to preserve the filmmakers original intent.  If this poses a problem for you, please discuss it with your instructor immediately.  The movies are essential to the course.

 

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