• Behind in your reading?
• Audio: Science and Pseudoscience
• Distinguishing pseudoscience from science
• Video: Open-mindedness
• Video: Bill Nye on astrology
• Video: Astrology demonstration
• Police Psychics
• Sylvia Browne: Psychic
• The art of cold reading
• SEC charges psychic with fraud
• John Edward and probability
• A psychic dog?
• "Be an expert on anything"
• Aromatherapy
• The automated phrenologist
• Graphology ("Paper Personality") - video
  • Connections between handwriting and personality are illusory
• Will Twilight create more vampire believers?
• Dilbert cartoon
• A faith healer
• Video: It could just be a coincidence
• Rock stars die early?
• VIDEO: Stephen Colbert

Ch. 1: Is it psychology or common sense?
Ch. 13: Student stress
Faulty thinking

• Deceptive marketing practices
• Marketers of 7 day miracle cleanse banned
• Video: Drug ad analysis
• "Miracle" cure for dyslexia
• Deflating the bogus insomnia 'epidemic'
• Infomercials
• Miracle mineral
• NeuView glasses
• Power Balance Magic Bracelet
• Superfruits?
• Alternative medicines - watch video
  • save us from...
  • The Alternative Fix
  • Supplements lose luster
  • Herbal medicine research

Ch. 1 (M); Essay

Ch. 17: Doing social psychology research
Correlation coefficients
Type of correlation?

• Misrepresenting science: Autism
• Facilitated communication
  • 2008 court case with FC
  • The costs of FC
• Theories of autism
• Video: Dr. Temple Grandin
• Profiling case
• Forensic "science"
• Pseudoscience and police work
• The danger of knowing for sure
• Certainty: Eyewitness testimony (video)
• 25 fallacies that lead us to believe weird things
• Half-baked theories
• How the media messes with your mind
• If the television program...
• Misconceptions about science

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Ch. 2: Connect the dots

• Correlation or causation?
  • Correlation and causation in the media
  • Height and affluence: U.S. no longer the tallest
  • HS GPA best predictor of college performance
  • Number of bumper stickers predicts road rage
  • Myopia and night lights
  • Crime and unemployment
  • Wearing red=winning gold?
• Case studies: A case study
  • Audio: Famous case studies
  • Famous case studies
  • Getting lost: A new disorder (case)
  • Face inversion effect
  • 2-year-old obsessive sponge eating
  • Teen survives spear through brain
• Framing of polls
  • A dog of a poll study
  • 30% of football players gay?
  • Cable TV news polling
• 20 most bizarre "experiments"
  • The urinal study
  • Loud music in bars increases alcohol consumption
• Operationally defining 7 deadly sins
• Applying the scientific method
• Spilled coffee brews scientific breakthrough

Article: Does drinking promote...

• Assignment 3

Jumping to conclusions
ESP trick

• watch video on "The Wonder Pill"
• What's wrong with the placebo effect?
• Thinking the hurt away
• Seeing results of surgery improves outcomes
• Drinking too much water
• An empirical question?
• How to deal with false research findings
• How we know what we know
• Rock stars die early?
• One study not enough
• Rare coincidences are very common
• What causes ulcers?

Article: Imperceptibly off-center...

• Assignment 4

• VIDEO: Vividness effect: Summer of the shark
• VIDEO: Prisoners of Silence
• Research Randomizer
• Science and politics; more
• Conflict of interest
• Looting versus finding; more
• Anecdotal evidence
• Video: The problem with anecdotes
• Add a picture of a brain to your message

Article: Buying behavior as...

• Assignment 5

Article: Unit bias...

• Assignment 6
  

Ch. 3: Scanning the Brain
Compare brains
Test your reaction time
Test a split-brain patient
Probe the motor cortex
Tour of the brain

• Neural transmission
• Neuron animations
• Nerve Virtual Encycloportal
• Restoring severed neurons
• Sprouting of new neurons
• Synapse structure varies across species
• The Whole Brain Atlas
• Architecture of the brain (video lecture)
• Why can't you tickle yourself?
• Video: Split-brain patient
• Left-brain, right-brain myths
• Left-brain, right-brain "test"
• Left-brain vs. right-brain learning styles
• Video: Brain disorders
• Video: Wernicke's and Broca's aphasia
• Video: Prosopagnosia - Face blindness
  • More on prosopagnosia
  • The importance of faces
• Developmental phonagnosia
• Brain damage curbs cigarette urge
• Hidden Brain Damage Scale
• Reverse autism spectrum disorder?
• Taco town (unit size)

Ch. 2 (M)

Assignment 7

Ch. 9: Identifying sleep disorders
Ch. 9: Sleeping in stages
Ch. 9: You are getting very sleepy
Ch. 9: How are you sleeping?

• Half-asleep birds
• Sleepwalking
• Mutant flies need less shut-eye
• Why dream?
• Video: "What's in a dream?"
• Sleep aids memory, problem-solving
• Video: Cataplexy in narcoleptic girl
• Center for Narcolepsy
  • video: dog narcolepsy
• Lots of sleep info
• Why some people sleepwalk (possibly)
• Is sleep essential?
• Sleep makes you smarter
• Violence during sleepwalking
• Incubus attack
• The science of sleep
• Consolidation of emotional experience in sleep
• Benefits of napping
• Video: Secrets of the sleeping brain

Ch. 3 (M)

Article: Is television traumatic...

• Assignment 8

Ch. 3: The Neuron
How Drugs Work

• Botox for writer's cramp?
• Fetal brains and alcohol
• All about drugs
• Crossing the blood-brain barrier
• Drug animations - see Mouse Party
• New pain reliever more potent, less addictive
• Pheromones in Humans
• 10 unsolved mysteries of the brain
• Hand actions fire mirror neurons in handless
• Why migraines strike
• Eating as an automatic behavior
• Obsessive-compulsive mice
• Alex the parrot; More Alex
• Fruit Fly Fight Club
• 5 things about migraines
• The interpreter in your head
• Brainfacts.org

Ch. 8: What's the pattern?
Ch. 11: Gender expectations..
Ch. 12: Baby's first love affair
Ch. 12: Peers and psychosocial development
Ch. 12: Test your knowledge about.
Ch. 12: Where'd you get those eyes?
Ch. 12: Understanding genetic disorders

• What does Batman think about Spongebob?
• Learning a language easier in kids
• Toddlers and robots
• Video: Visual cliff
• Blind relatives "prove" facial expressions are inherited
• The violent brain - multiple causes
• James Watson and the missing gene

Ch. 4 (M)

Assignment 9

• Risk-taking: Nature or Nurture?
• Accidental twins
• Math gender gap: Culture? Biology?
• Family resemblance - confirmation bias
• Musical ability connected to genes
• finger length and autism
• response to disgust
• science of sexual orientation
• Origins of sexual orientation
• birth order and homosexuality
• The inheritance of face recognition
• Can animals predict disaster?
• Gene difference between humans and chimps
• VIDEO: Chimp playing Ms. Pacman
• VIDEO: Expression of emotion in infant

Ch. 5 (M)

Article: Try it, you'll...

• Assignment 10
  

Ch. 4: If you can't do this Netlab..

Ch. 4: Pain: Where does it come from?
Speed tracking

• How observant are you?
• Video: Inverted vision
• Synaesthesia
  • Tasting words
  • I feel for you
• Imagination influences perception
• Human, cat, pigeon...walking
• The seeing tongue: Image; Video
• Blind person whose vision is restored
• Does blindness heighten other senses?
• Hallucinations after sensory deprivation
• Tactile rehabilitation

Ch. 6: Understanding classical conditioning
Train Pavlov's Dog
Train Skinner's Pigeon
Ch. 6: Learning by removing
Ch. 6: Test your knowledge of ...
Ch. 6 Schedules of reinforcement
Ch. 6: Identifying the reinforcers...
Ch. 6: Learning about learning

• Bad Thai cops wear Hello Kitty
• Video: Skinner and pigeons

Ch. 7 (M)

Article: Are pets a healthy...

• Assignment 11

• Classical or Operant Conditioning?
• Video: Rat Basketball ; more
• Teach a rat to play basketball
• Video: Squirrel obstacle course
• Pigeon-based Search Engine
• Pigeon-guided missile; more
• Punishment: Prison loaf!
• Bribing kids to eat their vegetables
• "What Shamu taught me..."
• Fish training
• video: C.C. on The Office
• video: Baby having tantrum
• Video: More modeling
• Video: Using positive reinforcement
• Behavior modification apps for your phone

Article: The impact of pets on human health...

• Assignment 12

Ch. 5: Pay Attention!
Ch. 7: A chunk of pie
Ch. 5: When meaning interferes with image; Stroop effect
Ch. 7: How's your short-term memory?
Try it: Driving while texting

• Cell phones and brain damage; More research; recent research;pregnant moms ; cell phones cause cancer?
• cell phone vs. passenger distraction
• Cell-phone-induced driver distraction

Ch. 8 (M)

Assignment 13

Ch. 5: Shortcuts and schemas
Ch. 7: How's your memory for memory?
Massive memory demo

• Amnesiacs cannot imagine future
• Consolidation and sleep
• Superior serial memory in the blind
• The case of Clive Wearing
• Losing memory overnight
• Video: Brain Man
• Body position as a memory cue
• How scandalous info affects memory
• Snapping 3 times leading way to recall movies, actors
• Reactivation of memory in the brain
  • research article
    

Article: The Scooter Libby effect

• Assignment 14

• Do you know anyone who is possessed?
• A memory artist
• Imagery helps memory
• Short-term memory loss (video)
• Inside the brain: Alzheimer's tour
• Curry Power: Help Alzheimer's patients?
• Prevalence of dementia/Alzheimers
• Video: Change blindness
• Video: Change blindness

Ch. 10: Test your intelligence (psychometric)
Ch. 12: Do you value yourself?
Ch. 15: Personality testing in the workplace

• Amnesia at the movies
• Your brain lies to you
• Know the best way to study?
• How are episodes separated in memory?
• VIDEO: The testing effect

Ch. 9 (M)

Article: Believing is seeing...

• Assignment 15
  

• Big Five Personality Test
• Lemon drop test
• Do dogs resemble their owners?

Ch. 12 (M)

Paper 3 due

Ch. 11: Planting the seeds for eating disorders
Ch. 13: Putting common sense...
Ch. 14: Where do adult behaviors..
Ch. 14: Defensive strategies
Ch. 14: Which jury consultant...

• Is procrastination a personality problem? (Part 1) / (Part 2)
• Reading your Facebook photo
• Shoes as a source of first impressions
  • research article

Article: First impressions...

• Assignment 16

Ch. 15: Depression: Common cold
Ch. 15: The case of the confused..
Ch. 15: Alcohol: America's...
Ch. 15: Suicide...
Ch. 15: How much do you know about suicide?

• Video: Abnormal psychology
• DSM-IV classifications
• Nose-picking abnormal?
• Audio: What is normal?
• Eating inedible objects
• Phobias; Fears and phobias
• Spider Phobia Questionnaire
• Video: Paranoia on the Tube
• Depression (answers from NIMH)
• Depressed? Think faster thoughts
• What is bipolar depression?
• Video: Personal reflection on bipolar disorder
• Video: Psychopathic killers
• "A crime of insanity"
• FAQs on the insanity defense
• Decriminalizing mental illness

Ch. 13 (M)

Ch. 15: You be the jury
Ch. 15: What's your anxiety level?
Ch. 15: Categorizing disorders
Ch. 15: Jenna's case
Ch. 15: The case of Jackson...
Ch. 15: Schizophrenic thoughts...
Ch. 15: Schizophrenia: What's the...
Ch. 15: What's the problem with...

• The persistence of mental illness
• Chemical signature of bipolar disorder
• Booklet on schizophrenia
• Schizophrenia resources
• Degrees of paranoia
• Video: Tourette's Syndrome

Assignment 17

Ch. 16: Name that therapy
Ch. 16: What's my specialty?

• 1-800-PSYCH
• Therapeutic Touch
  • study
• Foreign accent syndrome ; video
• Audio/video on schizophrenia
• The rise and fall of the prefrontal lobotomy
• Why suicide?
• Understanding the anxious mind
• IMAGES: Psychiatric treatments of the 19th and 20th centuries
• Can test tell who is a psychopath?
  • Video: What is a psychopath?
  • Psychopathy in children

Ch. 14 (M)

Feelings into words...

• Winter Depression Therapy
  • How light deprivation causes depression?
• Psychodiagnostic Chirology
• Careers in psychology
• Community Psychology
• Audio: Cognitive behavioral therapy: Thinking positive
• Self-help -- "The Secret"
  • More on The Secret
• EMDR therapy successful?
• How gene therapy could cure brain diseases
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of insomnia
  • CBT help for self-harm
• ECT without cogntive side effects
• Cognitive Bias Modification
• Psychiatric drug ads 'frequently misleading'
• Anti-depressants found no better than placebos for mild-moderate depression
• Shortage of hospital beds for mentally ill
• Video: Medicating kids
• The failure of clinical psychology
• Video: Watch counseling sessions

Assignment 18

Mar 11

10:00-12:00