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2025 Spring

INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY - PSY150/1 Spring 2025


Course
Simone Weissenberger
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See Syllabus in Resources

Here is the course outline:

1. W1.1: Course Overview, Introduction to Psychology as a Social Science and Historical Origins

Jan 30 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Course Overview and introductions. Introduction to Psychological Science

2. W2.1:Historical Schools of Psychology and Their Influence

Feb 4 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Historical Schools of Psychology

3. W2.2.: Research Methods in Psychology

Feb 6 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Research methods of modern psych

4. W3.1.: Reading Presentations

Feb 16 11:59pm .. 1:14am, 2.18

Submit reading presentations

5. W3.2.: Brain Body Monism

Feb 20 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Neurobiological basis of behavior

6. W4.1.: Development and Aging

Feb 18 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

The biological perspective

7. W4.2.: Body Monism - Quiz Review

Feb 20 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Review of quiz 1

8. W5.1.: Eriksonian Psychosocial Stages

Feb 25 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Development stages and their ties to personality

9. W5.2.: Consciousness and Dreams

Feb 27 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Consciousness and Dreams

10. W6.1.: Altered States of Consciousness

Mar 4 9:45am .. 10:45am, 2.18

Drugs, trances and the human experience.

11. W6.2.: Learning and Condition

Mar 6 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Pavlov, Skinner and Mind Control

12. W7.1.: Memory

Mar 11 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Implicit vs. Explicit Memory and Forgetting: The role of Interference

13. W7.2:: Homeostatic System aka Endocannabinoid System

Mar 18 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Intro to Endocannabinoid science and motivational theories

14. W8.1.: Nutrition, Biome and ECS

Mar 16 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

The impact of nutrition on health and psychology from an endocannabinoid system focused approach

15. W8.2:: Midterm Review

Mar 20 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Midterm Review Q and A

16. W8.2. : Take Home Exam

Apr 1 9:45am .. 10:45am, 2.18

Midterm Exam Open Book - No Class Meeting

17. W9.1.:Intelligence Theories

Apr 3 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Theories of Intelligence and Intel Testing

18. W9.2.: Intelligence and the Psyche Part2

Apr 8 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Practical application of WISC and other types of intelligences.

19. W10.1.: Emotions

Apr 10 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Theories of Emotion

20. W10.2.: Emotional Theories Across Cultures

Apr 13 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Ekman

21. W11.1.: Presentations

Apr 17 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Student Presentations

22. W11.2.: Presentations 2

Apr 22 9:45am .. 10:45am, 2.18

Presentations

23. W12.1: Presentations 3

Apr 25 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Presentation in person

24. W12.2.: Theories of Personality 1

May 1 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Persona

25. W13.1.: Personality theories 2

May 6 9:45am .. 11am

What is Personality, Basic Theories of Personality, Personality Measurement

26. W13.2: Abnormal Psych

May 8 9:45am .. 11am

Definition of Abnormal Behavior, Mental Illness, Classification and Diagnostics of Mental Disorders: DSM-V

27. Final Exam

May 13 9:45am .. 11am, 2.18

Final Exam

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