A. P. Psychology Workshop:
Carleton College Summer Teaching Institute (June 2002)

E-mail: NLUTSKY@CARLETON.EDU
Web Home Page: http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular/PSYC/lutsky/Lutsky.html

Mailing Address: Department of Psychology, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057

Course Meetings: Olin 103 and Olin 102.
Final Projects: Due July 31.
Recommended Texts:

Psychology (6th Edition) by David Myers or
Psychology: Themes and Variations (5th Edition) by Wayne Weiten or
Psychology and Life (16th Edition) by Richard Gerrig and Philip Zimbardo and
Darkness Visible by William Styron.

• Sunday, June 23, 7:30-9:00PM: Welcome and introductions; Identifying our goals.
  
  

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• Monday, June 24, 8:30-10:00: Teaching AP psychology.
  
  Selected resources for AP courses:
  • The College Board, Psychology Packet.
    • Ernst, Teacher's Guide to AP Courses in Psychology.
  • APA, National Standards for the Teaching of High School Psychology.
  • Web: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com
  • AP Psychology Network: http://www.appsychology.net
    

  Selected Resources Supporting the Teaching of Psychology

  • Teaching of Psychology.
  • Psychology Teacher Network.
  • APA, Activities Handbooks for the Teaching of Psychology.
  • Ware & Johnson, Handbook of Demonstrations and Activities in the Teaching of Psychology.
  • Benjamin, Daniel, & Brewer, Handbook for Teaching Introductory Psychology.
  • Weiten, Technology Resources in Psychology.
  • Video Resources:
    • Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition, 1-800-Learner.
    • 20/20 Episodes and Transcripts, www.abcnewsstore.com
    • The Mind: Teaching Modules from Worth Publishers, Inc.
    • The Brain: Teaching Modules from The Annenberg/CPB Collection,1-800-Learner.
  • Cartoons:
    • Sidney Harris: http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/
    • The New Yorker: http://cartoonbank.com/

  Meeting with Gaylen Johnson, College Board Representative (9:30-10:00).
  

• Monday, June 24, 10:30-12:00: History and Systems, Statistics and Research Methods; Ethics in Psychology.
  
  Myers, Psychology, pp. 1-11, 13-45.
  Selected Resources:
  • Ethical Principles of Psychologists.
  • Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis: http://home.clara.net/sisa/
  • Concepts and Applications of Inferential Statistics: http://faculty.vassar.edu/lowry/webtext.html
  • Software: GB-Stat, StatView.
    
    
• Monday, June 24, 1:00-4:30: Social Psychology.
  
  Myers, Psychology, pp. 643-689.
  Selected Resources:
  • Reading: Sabini & Silver, Moralities of Everyday Life, pp. 55-87.
  • Reading: Browning, Ordinary Men.
  • Reading: Cialdini, Influence.
  • Video: Obedience.
  • Video: NBC Dateline (Conformity).
  • Demonstration: Gurung (1997), Demonstrating the Matching Hypothesis.
  • Demonstration: Larsen (1987), Prisoner's Dilemma as a Model of Understanding Decisions.
  • Demonstration: False Uniqueness Effects.
  • Demonstration: False Consensus Effects.
  • Correspondent Inference:
    • Web: http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular/PSYC/classes/psych110_Lutsky/
    • Demonstration: Kassin (1999), The Fundamental Attribution Error Quiz Show.
  • Implicit Associations Test: http://www.yale.edu/implicit
  • Social Psychology Network: http://www.socialpsychology.org/teaching.htm
  • Milgram Web Site: http://www.stanleymilgram.com/
  • Prisoners' Dilemma: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/playground/
  • CROW (Course Resources on the Web): http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/
  • Software: Psychology on a Disk, PsychSim.
    

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• Tuesday, June 25, 8:30-10:00: Personality.
  
  Myers, Psychology, pp. 489-529.
  Selected Resources:
  • Reading: McCrae & Costa, Personality in Adulthood.
  • Demonstration: Simpson (1988), Self-Monitoring and Commitment to Dating Relationships.
  • Video: 42 Up: http://www.shop.pbs.org/
  • Web: http://www.acad.carleton.edu/curricular/PSYC/classes/psych110_Lutsky/
  • Personality Theories: http://www.coping.org/courses/theories/theorieslinks.htm\
  • Web: http://www.personalityresearch.org/
    
    
• Tuesday, June 25, 10:30-12:00: Development.
  Guest Presentation by Professor Dana Gross, St. Olaf College.
  
  Myers, Psychology, pp. 119-169.
  
  
• Tuesday, June 25, 1:00-4:30: Project Planning; Website Review.
  
  • Teachers of Psychology in Secondary Schools: http://www.apa.org/ed/topsshomepage.html
  • Society for the Teaching of Psychology: http://www.teachpsych.org
  • STP Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology: http://www.lemoyne.edu/OTRP/index.html
  • American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org/
  • American Psychological Society: http://psych.hanover.edu/APS/teaching.html,
    http://psych.hanover.edu/APS/exponnet.html
  • PsychScholar: http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/
  • Psych Experiments: http://psychexps.olemiss.edu/
  • ePsych: http://epsych.msstate.edu/
  • Ansburg site: http://clem.mscd.edu/~ansburg/intro/IntroWebDemos/startofdemospage.htm
  • Amoeba Web: http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/ddegelman/amoebaweb/
  • High School Psychology: http://clipper.jbhs.wi.k12.md.us/~cgreiner/resources.html
  • Psychology Activity Kits: http://www.psychkits.com

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• Wednesday, June 26, 8:30-10:00: The Nature and Nurture of Behavior.
  
  Myers, Psychology, pp. 85-117.
  Selected Resources:
  
• Wednesday, June 26, 10:30-12:00: Biological Psychology.
  Guest Presentation by Professor Larry Wichlinski, Carleton College.
  
  Myers, Psychology, pp. 47-83.
  Selected Resources:
  • Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, pp. 8-22, 77-84, 92-101, 108-115.
  • Video: Secret Life of the Brain: http://www.shop.pbs.org/
  • Neuroscience Tutorial: http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/
  • Brain Site: http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~iwinship/studyguide/brain_study.htm
  • The Brain and the Actions of Cocaine, Opiates, and Marijuana: http://www.nida.nih.gov/Teaching/Teaching.html
    
    
• Wednesday, June 26, 1:00-2:30: Sensation and Perception.
  Guest Presentation by Professor Uta Wolfe, St. Olaf College.
  
  Myers, Psychology, pp. 171-207, 209-239.
  Selected Resources:
  • Stroop Effect: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/java/ready.html
  • Illusions: http://www.worthpublishers.com/myers5e/content/psychsim/
  • Illusions: http://home.talkcity.com/LaGrangeLn/ronaldblue/index.html
  • Illusions: http://www.uni-mannheim.de/fakul/psycho/irtel/cvd.html
  • Illusions: http://www.eyetricks.com/illusions.htm
  • Software: Psychology on a Disk, PsychSim.
    
• Wednesday, June 26, 3:00-4:30: Psychopathology and Psychotherapy.
  
  Myers, Psychology, pp. 531-565, 567-599.
  Selected Resources:
  • Reading: Styron, Darkness Visible, pp. 1-84.
  • Reading: Sheehan, Is There No Place on Earth for Me.
  • Reading: Schiller & Bennett, The Quiet Room.
  • Reading: Jamison, An Unquiet Mind.
  • Video: The Brain: Module 25.
  • Video: The Mind: Module 30.
  • Video: Three Approaches to Psychotherapy.
  • Video: HBO: Dead Blue/Surviving Depression.
  • Cassette: Virtual Hallucinations.
  • Demonstration: DSM-III Case Book.
  • Demonstration: Outcome Research: Regression to the Mean.
  • Demonstration: Improving Listening Skills.
  • Software: Exploring Psychological Disorders.
  • Phobias Crossword Puzzle: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/xwords/index.html
    
    

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• Thursday, June 27, 8:30-10:00: Basic Models of Learning.
  
  Myers, Psychology, pp. 287-315.
  Selected Resources:
  • Demonstration: Bare, Shaping Word Choices.
  • Demonstration: Vernoy (1987), Demonstrating Classical Conditioning in Intro. Psych.
  • Demonstration: McEntarffer (1998), Variation on Operant Conditioning.
  • Demonstration: Shapiro (1995), Demonstrations of Human Capabilities and Limitations.
  • Reading: Skinner, Walden Two.
  • Video: Limitations of Classical Learning Theory.
  • Video: Bandura's Bobo Doll Study.
  • Video: The Mind: Module 36.
  • Learning Theory Taught at the Zoo: http://www.csub.edu/~gleblanc/research.htm
    
    
• Thursday, June 27, 10:30-12:00: Teaching Advance Placement Psychology.
  Guest Presentation by Peter Woollen, Social Studies Teacher at Lakeville High School.
  
  
• Thursday, June 27, 1:00-4:30: Memory, Thinking, and Intelligence.
  
  Myers, Psychology, pp. 317-355, 357-389, 391-421.
  Selected Resources:
  • Neisser, John Dean's memory, pp. 139-159.
  • Video: The Brain: Module 18.
  • Demonstration: Mental Set.
  • Demonstration: Insight.
  • Demonstration: Confirmation Bias.
  • Demonstration: Cognitive Heuristics.
  • Hot Hand Research: http://www.hs.ttu.edu/hdfs3390/hothand.htm
    
    

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• Friday, June 28, 8:30-10:00: Article Presentations.
  
  
• Friday, June 28, 10:30-12:00: Summary and Concluding Session.