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Introduction to Psychology

Psych 100: Introduction to Psychology.


Instructors:
Chris Braun
Thomas Manna
Daniel Bronson
Glenn Schafe (guest)
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HunterIntroPsych@gmail.com
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Please always check the syllabus and BB, and then


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Agenda for 8/28


Introduce Class and Staff
Class details and mechanics
Textbook
Blackboard
iClicker Response System

What is Psychology?
Historically
Professionally

Welcome to Introductory Psychology


Hunter Psych100.02
Textbook

Psychology, Contemporary
Perspectives
Paul Okami
Oxford University Press
Bookstores and Coursmart

Concept Maps

Course Stuff
Blackboard: Grading and Exams, Linked Content,
Announcements and email
iClicker: In-class questions. Register your device
BE SURE TO USE Info as on BLACKBOARD!!!
Name and ID

Textbook Website: Chapter Guides, study


questions, linked videos
http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780
199856619/

Blackboard: Check your email address and ID


number (listed as Account Info, Username)

Big Class Stuff


Please be respectful. Your voice carries. Your
video game distracts.
Adopt yourself to this room.

From student feedback:


There were a few groups of students who talked
incessantly all year long. It was quite disruptive. The
TAs would walk right by them and I cant understand
why nothing was ever done.
students are very distracting and it seems somewhat
noisy
The lecture hall is too big, so when a student talks to
another it echoes and it can be distracting
Biggest concern is that despite sitting close to the
front, there still were students who were having full
conversations during the lecture. Also, the TAs that
were walking around never told them to stop even
though these students talk every lecture.

From student feedback:


The lecture is in a BIG lecture hall, not that I'm going to complain because I
know a lot of people are interested in the course and want to take it, but it
is difficult to pay attention to the professor's lecture when students can
get distracted by their friends or their electronics.
Although I was interested in the content presented in class other students
would often interrupt.
No matter where I sat, there was always a student talking. It was really
distracting and very annoying.
Other students were considerably disruptive at times. Lighting and sound
were adequate.
The other students, with their loud talking and laughing and distracting
conversations, were the only major problem of the lecture hall.
other students
Some students are noisy
Students sitting in the back of the lecture hall were often disruptive,
carrying on their conversations unrelated to the course material.

From student feedback:


The only negative is that some students would have a
conversation even after they were asked to stop. I think you
could give people a warning and then kick them out if they
get a second warning?
Too big of a space, loud students
Disruptive Students; other than that, no issues.
The main problem with the lecture hall is sound and
distractions from other students. Even if other students are
just whispering amongst themselves, it is extremely
distracting. The sound in the hall travels far and I could
easily hear students talking from rows away.
The only problem is that the students in the back of the
lecture room always talk. Even after the TA's tell them to
lower their voices or be quiet, the students continue to
talk. I would move up a few rows and still hear them
behind me, making conversation.

Laptop-notes have more words, but


theyre more often verbatim from
lecture

Multi-taskers open 65 windows per lecture


Mean distraction for SMS is 28 seconds
Significantly correlated with lower quiz scores
Messaging is the most distracting
Self-report underestimates actual usage by 7-40%

Intelligent laptop use is better, but still


worse than longhand

Whats the point?


Good study habits can be examined empirically:
Experiments to determine what works
DATA is the pathway to understanding

Thats scientific Psychology.


Hypothesis: longhand notes result in better
retention.
Test: Two groups of identical students
Knowledge comes not from authority or guesses,
but from tests of predictions.

McGurk Effect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRZN7Tm9rnA&feature=youtu.be

The Message of The McGurk Effect


Specific insights to perception of speech sounds
Perception (not detection) forms our reality.
Perception is not always accurate.
Psychology provides the tools to study the
relationship between perception and reality.

Questions of Psychology

What is reality and how do we know it?


How do people (and animals) communicate?
What are emotions?
How do we learn from experience?
Why do we forget things?
How do our genes influence our behavior?
Do people have control over their own behavior?
What is normal and what is abnormal?
Can abnormal behavior be changed?

All civilizations have


speculated on the nature
of mind and existence

Ancient views:
India: Buddhist psychology:
The self is an illusion created by desires
Eightfold path to enlightenment

China: Taoist and Confucian Philosophy


The self is developed in relation to societal
function (and the natural world)

Greece: Platonic and Aristotelian Philosophy


The self is a modest attempt at understanding an
external reality

Roots of Psychology Philosophy

Plato
Nativism: certain kinds of
knowledge are inborn or
innate

Aristotle
Empiricism: all knowledge
is acquired through
experience

Ren Descartes: 1596-1650


Father of Rationalism,
Science.
The only certain fact is that
I exist

The Self is real, rational,


and non-material.

The Scientific Era

Mid 1800s:
Physiology: workings of
the biological machines

Psychology: workings
of the self
Wilhelm Wundt
First Laboratory
Introspection

The Scientific Era


Edward Titchener (18671927), Student of Wundt
Use trained introspection to
inventory the content of
mind and perception

Structuralism

The Scientific Era


William James (1842-1910)

Functionalism:
What are the functions
of the mind?
First textbook of
Psychology

The Scientific Era


Sigmund Freud (18561939)
Psychodynamics:
Much of the mind is outside
our awareness
Abnormal behavior can be
corrected by examination
and talk therapy

The Scientific Era


Behaviorism
Only observables:
Inputs (the world)
Outputs (actions)

BF Skinner (1904-1990)
JB Watson (1875-1958)

Most of behavior
explained by learning
and experience

The Scientific Era


Humanism
Self is real
Free will is real
Goals and needs are
real
All people benefit
from therapy
Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

Maslows Hierarchy of Needs:

Psychology Today
Basic Research

Behavior Genetics
Biopsychology
Neuroscience
Social Psychology
Perceptual Psychology

Applied Psychology

Advertising
Forensic Psychology
Health Psychology
Organizational Psychology
Clinical Psychology

Although >80% of undergraduate Majors claim interest in clinical


psychology, ~35% of Psychology PhDs are trained as clinicians

Doctoral Degrees
~40,000 per year (US)
~3,500 in Psychology
>60% female, 24% minority (2008)
Median age 32
64% had BA in Psychology
Median time to completion 7 years

Psychology as a Profession

Psych 100: Introduction to Psychology.


Instructors:
Chris Braun
Thomas Manna
Daniel Bronson
ALL CONTACT THROUGH:
HunterIntroPsych@gmail.com
Please do not use Blackboard email function to
communicate with us.

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