Timeline:

Social Psychology experiment essay: Due Friday
Revised interview paper: Due Monday

HW: Writing assignment to complete the Social Psychology unit.

1. Identify the group, the norms of which you challenged in your experiment.
2. Describe the group:
a. Who comprises the membership of the group?
b. How are members chosen for the group?
c. What are some of the informal norms by which group members abide? (Appearance, attitude, speech, behavior, etc.)
3. Identify the specific norm you violated in your experiment, and the way in which you did so.
a. What are the consequences of violating a norm in this group?
b. What response did you receive from members of the group?
c. Did you receive any response from members outside of the group?

Length: 1-2 pages
Text Format: APA title page, 12-pt Times New Roman, double spacing.
Due Date: Friday, October 2nd. (Note: I will be out on Friday, but you will still be expected to turn in your essay by that date. You may submit it either electronically via email or in hard copy, and you must do so by the start of class Friday for full credit.)

HW: Develop a written proposal for Friday describing what behavior you plan to enact in order to violate the norms of one of the groups of which you are a member. Your proposal should contain the following information:

1. What is the relevant group of which you are a member?
2. What group norm do you plan to challenge, and how?
3. How do you expect the other members of that group to respond to your behavior?

Remember: Keep it classy. Your proposal must pass review by the "Institutional Review Board," aka: me.

HW: None. But you will be reworking your essays this weekend, after I had them back to you. So if you want to get a head start, you should some ideas about where you can start the revision process, even though I haven't given your draft back.

HW:

(1) Read the brief description of the Kitty Genovese event on the first page of the packet.
(2) Read the section of the packet beginning on the second page with "When do people help" and ending just before the section "Aggression: Harming others."

(3) Write a paragraph (a good, solid, well-written paragraph) briefly summarizing the Kitty Genovese event and applying the ideas from the following two pages to help explain the actions of the bystanders.

APA Formatting Information:

1. Text format: The paper should be written in Times New Roman, 12 pt font with standard margins. You should set the formatting on your document to double spacing before you start and leave it, as every element should be double spaced - no more, no less.

2. Title page: The title page should contain (a) a title for your paper, (b) your full name, and (c) your educational institution: "North Cross School."

3. Header: Go to "View," then "Header and footer" to create a header. This will appear at the top of every page. In the header, type the title of your paper. If the title is lengthy, you may abbreviate it. (Example: If your title is "An Interview with Clinical Psychologist Dr. George Revercomb," you may instead put "Clinical Psychologist," or some other piece of the title, as the header.) Then, at the right side of the header, enter the page number. Be sure to use the "#" button on the header form, rather than typing in a number.

4. Body of paper: Begin your second page with the full title of the paper centered on the first line. Begin the body of the paper just below that. If you have double-spaced the document, you need only hit enter once between the title and the first line.

5. Reference page: The last page should be entitled "References," which should be centered on the top line. Your interview will NOT be listed in the reference section. Any other research sources will be listed here. I am assuming that most of you have used an internet source, so I will provide several options, as the format will depend on the type of internet source you've used. Find instructions here.

6. In-text citation: As all of the information in your paper will come from either your interview or your research source, there should be at least one citation in each paragraph of your paper. Cite your interview like this: (S. Freud, personal communication, September, 15, 2009.) The date should reflect the date of your article. This citation should appear at the end of each paragraph or section of the paragraph where you have discussed the interview, or at the end of each direct quotation. As for your research source, see options for citation format here.

Note: On any writing assignment on which you are asked to use APA format, a portion of your grade will be based on the extent to which you followed APA guidelines. Because this is your first exposure to APA style, I am looking for a reasonable attempt at replicating APA style. Like anything else, it gets easier the more you do it.

Below is the video we watched in class today about the Stanford Prison Experiment.

HW: Read article about the Zimbardo prison experiment. Answer the following questions. I will collect your responses at the beginning of class.

1. Identify the independent and dependent variables.
2. What did the researchers find?
3. What ethical problems do you see in this study?

To-do List:

1. Study for quiz Tuesday. (See review items below.)
2. Watch the YouTube video below and consider the following scenario (For Wednesday):

Researchers find that there is a strong positive correlation between chocolate consumption and automobile accidents after collecting data from various communities in Canada. If we can assume that neither variable is causing the other, what third, "lurking" variable might be influencing the other two?

3. Interview paper is due Monday, September 21. Get crackin'. (Note: The assignment is embedded in the link at the beginning of item #3, in case you lose yours.)

Quiz Tuesday: History and approaches

Figures:

Hippocrates
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Wilhelm Wundt
Edward Titchener
William James
Sigmund Freud
Charles Darwin
Ivan Pavlov
B.F. Skinner
Edward Thorndike
John Watson
Abraham Maslow

Terms:

Introspection
Functionalism
Structuralism
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic perspective
Behavioral perspective
Behaviorism
Cognitive perspective
Humanistic perspective
Biological psychology
Evolutionary psychology

Paper Assignment

Interview subject due: Friday, September 11th
Paper due: Friday, September 18th

HW: Your interview subject is due by the beginning of class on Friday. You will need to provide me with a name and job title so that I can approve your interview subject. If you already know your intended subject, you may email the information to me any time before class begins Friday.

Also, do Tuesday's homework.

Also... Remember Carl Rogers?: The curative property is the warmth and genuineness of the relationship between the therapist and client. I wonder what he'd think about this article...

HW: Read this article from Newsweek about the back-and-forth that should be inherent in scientific study. Submit a paragraph summarizing the author's argument. *This is your first shot at academic writing in this class: Full sentences, spelling, etc... all important! Assignment will be due at the beginning of class.

Have a great long weekend!

HW: Complete this activity on the 7 Perspectives of modern psychology.