General
Graphic from Psychology, 10th edition, David G. Myers, Worth Publishing
This course is an overview of the major areas in the science of psychology. Students will be able to describe major psychological theories and empirical findings discovered in the West and the local soil, and to apply the theories and empirical findings in the analysis of human behavior and social phenomena in a relevant context. Student will also learn how psychologists think and approach questions on human behaviors.
After taking this course, students will be able to:
- Describe and demonstrate major theories and empirical findings in different areas of the psychological sciences.
- Observe and analyze the results of experiments designed for the study of human behavior in different domains.
- Apply psychological theories to explain human behaviours in a relevant context.
- - check out this overview of the course to gain a holistic understanding (the big picture)
Turnitin Assignment (20% of total grade)
Please submit the assignment on Turnitin no later than 5pm on 17 July 2015
Resources
- lots of interesting psychology-related articles and resources here!
- - free quiz questions, flashcards, vocabulary, animations, etc
Getting Started
- you can use this chat room to communicate real-time with other students who are online!
- Describe and demonstrate major theories and empirical findings in different areas of the psychological sciences.
Learning
Images courtesy of a Stanford University collection of Albert Bandura's papers
Lecture material
This video is a recorded lecture introducing the topic of Learning.
This is the lecture notes for Lecture 6, without any audio narration or embedded videos.
(Note: this is a 5MB PDF file, so it may take a minute to load)
Links
Graphics (click on the thumbnail to view a larger image)
Acquisition and extinction of conditioned response Associative Learning Classical Conditioning of Pavlov's dogs Classical Conditioning can be generalized to include new stimuli 
Generalization to even previously aversive stimuli! Conditioning to wince at flash of lightning Correlation between TV watching and violent acts How did they collect saliva from Pavlov's dogs? 
How was Little Albert conditioned to be afraid? Operant conditioning - a Skinner box Reinforcement can strengthen behavior Reinforcement schedules Videos
- Classical Conditioning techniques applied to teach a human baby to fear certain objects
- Observational Learning
Activities - Part A
You can take this formative assessment with unlimited tries to build your knowledge, and the system will keep the highest grade you achieve. Keep trying until you master these 20 questions and get full marks!
Activities - Part B
Activities - Part C
Unlimited tries, keep the high grade: how high can you go?