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WEEK FOUR 9/27: “STRUCTURALISM” AND LATER GERMAN
DEVELOPMENTS
Lecture Slides:
Powerpoint
Leahey, Chpt 3 pgs 87-109
Take
a look at a few of these early psychological instruments
http://vlp.mpiwg‑berlin.mpg.de/references?id=art11&page=p0001
Glance
over Ebbinghaus’s pioneering experimental studies
of memory, particularly Chapter V.
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Ebbinghaus/index.htm
An
introspection training exercise from Titchener’s
Laboratory Manual.
Complete
training up to part IV and read all the methodological reflections and the
conclusion
No
need to do the pre- post-test unless you want to.
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/articles/schwitzgebel/
Of
additional interest:
History
of mental imagery research, especially sections 3.0 through 3.4
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental‑imagery
A
collection of neat optical illusions
http://www.psycharts.com/opt_illus.html
WEEK FIVE 10/4: NO CLASS -- TEMPLETON LECTURE: Paul Bloom
WEEK SIX 10/11: FREUD AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
QUIZ
2 on material from weeks three and four
Lecture
Slides:
Powerpoint
Leahey Chapter 4
Defense
mechanisms
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/science/26hysteria.html?8dpc
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/science/22hypno.html?ex=1160712000&en=131a521029284a9b&ei=5070
http://changingminds.org/explanations/behaviors/coping/defense_mechanisms.htm
Of
additional interest:
Explore
the Freud Online Museum http://www.freud‑museum.at/e/index.html
WEEK SEVEN 10/18: EVOLUTION AND FUNCTIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Lecture
Slides:
Powerpoint
Leahey Chpts 5,6 Chapter 5
William
James and the “Principles of Psychology”
On
Habit http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin4.htm
WEEK EIGHT 10/25:
BEHAVIORISM
Lecture
Slides:
Powerpoint
QUIZ
3 on material from weeks six and seven
Leahey Chpt 6 and 7
John
Dewey “The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology”
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Dewey/reflex.htm
http://www.comnet.ca/%7Epballan/Dewey.htm
John
Watson “Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It”
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Watson/views.htm
WEEK NINE 11/1: RADICAL BEHAVIORISM
CLASS TODAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PLEASE READ BOTH THE 11/1 AND 11/8
ASSIGNMENTS FOR 11/8. QUIZ 4 WILL TAKE PLACE
ON 11/15.
Leahey Chpt 8
B.F.
Skinner and Operant Conditioning
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Skinner/Pigeon/
WEEK TEN 11/8: THE RETURN OF MIND AND LANGUAGE
Lecture
Slides:
Powerpoint
QUIZ 4 on material from weeks eight and nine
Leahey Chpt 9
Chomsky
challenges Skinner
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/1967----.htm (omit sections 6 - 10)
WEEK ELEVEN 11/15:
COGNITIVE SCIENCE
Lecture
Slides:
Powerpoint
QUIZ 4 on the following material:
Chapter 8: all
Chapter 9: beginning to 262; 267 -279; and 285 to end.
You may skip 262-267 and 279-285, and the Chomsky web reading, for now.
THIS QUIZ WILL ALSO INCLUDE MATERIAL FROM CHAPTERS 6 AND
7
We
will cover Chomsky in class THIS week and in the quiz AFTER Thanksgivng.
Leahey Chpt 10
The
Turing Test: http://loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html
Eliza
http://i5.nyu.edu/%7Emm64/x52.9265/january1966.html
WEEK TWELVE 11/22:
THANKSGIVING: NO CLASS
WEEK THIRTEEN 11/29:
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL TESTING
Lecture
Slides: Powerpoint
QUIZ
5 on material from weeks ten and eleven
Leahey Chpt 11; Chpt 12 349-357
Binet http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Binet/binet1.htm
(familiarize yourself with basics)
“Mental
age” and “IQ” http://www.wilderdom.com/intelligence/IQHistoryCalcuate.html
History
of the Control Group http://www.ppsw.rug.nl/~teng/artikel2.pdf
Use instead:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=9794871
WEEK FOURTEEN 12/6:
THE RISE OF PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Leahey Chpt 12, 357- end; Chpt 13
Henry
Goddard http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/goddard.shtml
The
Kallikaks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kallikak_Family
Be
sure to read updated Control Group article: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=9794871
Jastrow “Has Psychology Failed?” http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Jastrow/failed.htm
QUIZ
6 on material from weeks thirteen and fourteen
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