Topic Name Description
File ARC Psychology tutors schedule and bios
Important Course Documents File Syllabus
File ERO requirement information - please read
File How to write a professional email to your professor
File PY 101 Final Course Grade Estimator
Lecture Outlines File Day 1 CH1-lecture outline (given out in class)
File CH2 outline (for all four days we cover Ch. 2)
File CH3 outline
URL Cool website with brain models!
URL A comedian neuroscientist discusses the brain
File CH6 outline
File CH7 Memory outline
File CH9 Human Development Outline
File CH12 SocialPsych Outline
File CH14 PsychDisorders Outline
Extra Practice Questions File RESEARCH METHODS: Identifying positive, negative, and no correlations.

Additional correlation exercise and the answer key is on page 2.

File RESEARCH METHODS: Third variables

Additional exercise on identifying 3rd variables, and the key is on pp. 2-3.

File RESEARCH METHODS: Identify correlation vs. experimental design

Additional exercise on identifying different designs & variables, and the answer key is on p. 2.

File RESEARCH METHODS: Directionality vs. 3rd Variable Prob - key on p.2

Exercise to help you distinguish between examples of the 3rd variable problem and the directionality problem

File Correlations exercise given out in class
File KEY for Correlations exercise given out in class
File Third variables (part 1) given out in class
File KEY - Third variables (part 1)
File Identify Correlational vs. Experimental Designs - part 1 - given in class
File KEY - ExpCorr NameVars - part 1 - given in class
File DrVs Notes on Class Experiment on Social Norms 9-13-21
File Ch 3 Bio Beh - practice exercises I
File Ch 3 Bio Beh - practice exercises II
File CH 3 some practice Qs from class
File TheBrainGame (CH3 review)
File K-E-Y - Classical Conditioning - identify the CS-US-CR-UR exercise
File K-E-Y Operant Conditioning - reinforcement and punishment exercise
File K-E-Y Predicting future behaviors id consequences
File LEARNING: classical conditioning exercise
File KEY - classical conditioning
File LEARNING: operant conditioning
File KEY - operant conditioning

make sure to have your Microsoft Word settings set such that you can see tracked changes and comment bubbles

File practice Qs for Learning
File A few practice questions on LEARNING from PPT slides
File Memory - Two Practice Qs
File PracticeQs Memory - answers in notes section
File Jeopardy for Memory
File Practice questions from Ch 9 Human Development
File Practice Qs - Human Development chapter
File CH 12 - Prejudice Stereotypes Discrimination
File CH 12 - Social Facilitation Practice Questions
File CH 12 - Normative vs. Informational influence
File CH 12 Attitudes and Cog Dissonance Theory
File CH 14 Psych Disorders - Some Practice Qs
File Last Day Review of Ch 12 14
Exam Preparation File Exam1
File Exam2
File Exam3
File Exam4 - Key Terminology - Ch 12 Social & Ch 14 Disorders
(Some) videos shown in class URL Jane Goodall
URL Phineas Gage
URL London Taxi Driver Study
URL Aphasia from Stroke
File Watson’s Little Albert 1
File Watson’s Little Albert 2
File Watson’s Little Albert 3
URL Skinner pigeon turn
URL Shaping - dog box
URL Shaping - dog fetching a slipper
URL Shaping a cat
URL Shaping - dog flipping light switch
URL H.M. memory
URL Clive Wearing
URL Memento
URL 50 First Dates
URL Finding Nemo (start ~18s)

Anterograde amnesia

File Discovery Channel - When Eyes Deceive
URL moro reflex
File Reflexes in the Newborn
URL Lorenz
URL Harlow
URL Strange Situation
URL Kagan temperament
URL Task: find the ball
File Conservation of Number
File Dev Psych- Egocentrism 3 Mountain Task
URL Theory of Mind test examples
File Dateline Milgram 1997
URL Famous experiments - Asch, Milgram, etc
File Cog-diss-pegturning-footage
URL Specific phobias
URL TED talk on Social Anxiety Disorder by Dr. Fallon Goodman
URL PTSD from 9/11 first responders
Podcast Assignment #1 - 9/20 File Happiness Lab Podcast Assignment 1
Podcast Assignment #2 - 10/4 File Happiness Lab Podcast Assignment 2
Self-Compassion - 10/25 File Instructions for Self-Compassion Assignment
URL Self-Compassion Scale

Complete the 26-item trait self-compassion scale developed by Neff (2003), and review your results.


URL Podcast episode on self-compassion from the show "Hidden Brain"

Synopsis: Self-criticism is often seen as a virtue. But psychologist Kristin Neff says there’s a better path to self-improvement — self-compassion. She says people who practice self-compassion are more conscientious and more likely to take responsibility for their mistakes.

File Self-compassion for freshmen - review of study (quick and easy read)
File Neff (2003)
File Leary et al. (2007)
File Breines and Chen (2012)
File Breines and Chen (2013)
File Zhang and Chen (2016)
Gratitude - 11/22 File Instructions for Gratitude Assignment
File Gratitude letter to Karen
(Optional) Resources on the Science of Memory File Retrieval Practice
File Concrete Examples
File Elaboration
File Spaced Practice
File Interleaving
File Dual Coding
File StudyStrategies Dunlosky
File StudyStrategies Putnam Sungkhasettee Roediger (2016)
Alternative ERO Assignments File ERO Alternative assignments instructions
Folder Articles to choose from for ERO journal article assignments