Welcome to General Psychology, a Bachelor Level course in the curriculum for the Degree, Bachelor of Science if Chemical Dependency. I'm pleased to offer you this course. This is an exciting course. General Psychology provides a comprehensive introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental experience.
This is a six-semester hour course. This course is allotted ten weeks of time. You must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the ten-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course, or the day which you notify me that your text book(s) have arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Please be cognizant of the time frame. It is rare that extensions of time are permitted, unless you have good justification. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded ten semester hours of credit. Students may accelerate, but may not complete this course in less than four weeks.
There is one (1) required textbook for this course.
Book 1: Exploring Psychology: 6th Edition, David G. Myers. Worth Publisher, 2005: ISBN # 0-7167-8931-0.
There are forty module exams for this course; Grades are based on completion of assignments, activities and module exams.
The grading scale for this course is as follows:
90-100% = A
80-89% = B
70-79% = C
Below 70% = Fail
40 Module Exams 80%
Self evaluation 5%
Discovery & Intention Statement 5%
Journal 10%
TOTAL 100%
You are encouraged to communicate with me. I am available as a teacher, coach, and mentor to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. Primarily, communication is through email. However, I am also available for conversation by telephone if you would like. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I am also very willing to meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at your request. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we will have some scheduled group chats. You will receive more detailed information at the time such chat sessions are scheduled. Please keep my email address handy so that you can contact me whenever necessary. Upon registration, you will receive my email address. If at any time during this course you change your email address, please be sure to notify me right away.
The aim of education about Psychology is to understand the study of behavior and the factors that determine and affect behavior.
Readings from textbook, professional books and journals. Self-awareness/exploration activities.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
1). Introduce psychology as a discipline and to describe the different perspectives from which psychologists examine behavior and mental processes.
2). Identify psychology's most important subfields.
3). Demonstrate the limits of every day intuition and common sense.
4). Discuss effective learning strategies for mastering psychology.
5). Show how psychologists use three basic research methods: description, correlation, and experimentation.
6). Answer some of the frequently asked questions about psychology.
7). Describe the structure of neurons and explain how they communicate.
8). Discuss the nature of the nervous system.
9). Describe the major techniques for studying the brain.
10). Explain how behavior geneticist weighs genetic and environmental contributions to our various traits.
11). Explore both the nature and nurture of gender.
12). Trace the course of prenatal development.
13). Identify the competencies of the newborn.
14). Discuss the course of physical, cognitive, and social development in infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood.
15). Introduce some basic principles of sensation.
16). Discuss the visual process.
17). Describe the sense of hearing.
18). Explain the sense of touch and the process by which pain is felt.
19). Describe the sense of taste and smell.
20). Describe the basic principles of depth perception.
21). Discuss the nature of the sleep cycle and to describe the nature and functions of dreams.
22). Explore the truth about hypnosis.
23). Identify the effects of various drugs.
24). Describe biological, psychological, and social roots of drug use.
25). Present the principles and processes involved in classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning.
26). Introduce memory as an information-processing system.
27). Explore how we construct concepts and solve problems.
28). Discuss language development.
29). Discuss genetic and environmental determinants of intelligence.
30). Present basic concepts of motivation.
31). Describe the basis of hunger.
32). Describe the major eating disorders and the causes of obesity.
33). Discuss sexual motivation, including sexual disorders, dynamics of sexual orientation and the strong human need to belong.
34). Describe the research on achievement motivation.
35). Present the major theories of emotion.
36). Present research on emotional expression.
37). Discuss the nature of stress.
38). Describe effective stress-management techniques.
39). Explore the meaning of personality.
40). Present the trait perspective.
41). Introduce and evaluate the humanistic perspective.
42). Describe and evaluate social-cognitive perspective.
43). Introduce the different perspectives on psychological disorders.
44). Describe the major mood disorders, and to explore their possible causes.
45). Describe the controversial dissociative disorders, and to discuss their possible causes.
46). Describe personality disorders, focusing on the antisocial personality.
47). Describe, explore the symptoms, types and possible causes of schizophrenia.
48). Present the major psychotherapies and to evaluate their effectiveness.
49). Describe the biomedical therapies.
50). Introduce the rationale and strategy of preventive mental health.
51). Introduce attribution theory.
52). Present the literature on social influence.
53). Describe the major findings on prejudice, aggression, and social conflict.
54). Explore factors that contribute to attraction, altruism, and peacemaking.
1). The history and Scope of Psychology.
2). Research Strategies: How Psychologists ask and Answer Questions.
3). Neural and Hormonal Systems.
4). The Brain.
5). The Nature and Nurture of Behavior.
6). Development Issues, Prenatal Development, and Newborn.
7). Infancy and Childhood.
8). Adolescence.
9). Adulthood.
10). Introduction to Sensation and Perception: Vision.
11). The Other Senses.
12). Perceptual Organization.
13). Perceptual Interpretation.
14). Waking and Sleeping Rhythms.
15). Hypnosis.
16). Drugs and Consciousness.
17). Learning.
18). Information Processing.
19). Forgetting and Memory Construction.
20). Thinking.
21). Language and Thought.
22). Intelligence.
23). Introduction to Motivation: Hunger.
24). Sexual Motivation.
25). Achievement Motivation.
26). Theories of Physiology of Emotion.
27). Expressing and Experiencing Emotion.
28). Stress and Illness.
29). Promoting Health.
30). The psychoanalytic Perspective.
31). The Trait Perspective.
32). The Humanistic Perspective.
33) The Social-Cognitive Perspective and Reflections of the Four Key Perspectives.
34). Introduction to Psychological Disorders: Anxiety Disorders.
35). Mood Disorders and Personality Disorders.
36). Schizophrenia.
37). Therapy.
38). Social Thinking.
39). Social Influence.
40). Social Relations.
If you have any questions regarding this program, you may contact the instructor at
kenigstein@aol.com.
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