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m]%|*LG h8C0"@%lG:S6U&Q0The style of this is there'll be two lectures a week, as well ascourse readings. Now, to do well in the course, you have to attend boththe lectures and do the readings. There will be some overlap. In somecases, the lectures will be quite linked to the readings. But therewill be some parts of the readings that will not find their way intothe lectures, and some lectures--some entire lectures that will notconnect at all to the readings. So, to pursue this course properly youhave to do both. What this means is that if you miss a class you needto get notes, and so you should get them from a friend or from theperson sitting next to you. The slides are going to be made availableonline. So, one of the things you don't have to do is you don't have towrite this down. You take notes any way you choose, but if you don'tget anything on there it'll be available online. I'm going to post itin a format which will be black and white and easy to print out so youdon't have to worry about this. But again, attending to the slides isnot a substitute for attending class.心理学空间:OTaRD lt8g
心理学空间-YqO'B-KQQhP1CMThere's a textbook, Peter Gray'sPsychology,5th edition, andthere's also a collection of short readings, The Norton Readeredited by Gary Marcus. It's an excellent textbook; it's an excellentcollection, and you should get them both. They're available atLabyrinth bookstore on York Street or you get them online. I shouldnote that last time I taught the course I used the MarcusReader, and when Professor Marvin Chun taught his course lastsemester he used Peter Gray's 5thedition textbook. So,there may be a lot of used copies floating around. You should feel freeto try to get one of those.
"_yX^ V!n$}|G0心理学空间-k2t$^9nM!LThe evaluation goes like this. There is a Midterm and there is aFinal. The Final will not be held in the exam period, because I like totake long vacations. It will be held the last day of class. The examswill be multiple choice and short answer, fill in the blank, that sortof thing. Prior to the exams I will post previous exams online, so youhave a feeling for how these exams work and so on. There will also bereview sessions.
"C0M]i9[@)`6`R0心理学空间C+Fw7d'wStarting at the beginning of the third week of class – that is notnext week but the week after – on each Monday I'm going to put up abrief question or set of questions, which you have to answer and youranswers need to be sent to your teaching fellow. And you'll be given ateaching fellow, assigned one, by Friday. This is not meant to bedifficult. It's not meant to be more than five, ten minutes of work,but the point of the question--15, 20 minutes of work, but the point ofthe question is to motivate people to keep up with the material and dothe readings. These questions will be marked pass, fail. I expect mosteverybody could pass all of the questions but it's just to keep you ontrack and keep you going.
/G [uB3`K0心理学空间2p9c n/Hn;b+nThere is a book review, a short book review, to be written towardsnear the end of the class. I'll give details about that later on in thesemester. And there's also an experimental participation requirement,and next week I'll hand out a piece of paper describing therequirement. The point of the requirement is to give you all experienceactually seeing what psychological research is about as well as to giveus hundreds of subjects to do our experiments on.心理学空间3H%IhnX5Fc+vg
}V;{,Q}:E&k0The issue sometimes comes up as to how to do well in the course.Here's how to do well. Attend all the classes. Keep up with thereadings. Ideally, keep up with the readings before you come to class.And one thing I would strongly suggest is to form some sort of studygroups, either formally or informally. Have people you could talk towhen the--prior to the exams or--she's patting somebody next to her. Ihope you know him. And in fact, what I'm going to do, not this classbecause it's shopping period. I don't know who's coming next class, orwhat but I'll set up a few minutes prior, at the beginning of theclass, for people just to introduce themselves to the person next tothem so they have some sort of resource in the class.心理学空间eMU2zY,^0k
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[P v2^]*?)aZ }0[6VHc&\8\/k0What I want to do is provide a state of the art introduction to themost important topic that there is: us. How the human mind works, howwe think, what makes us what we are. And we'll be approaching this froma range of directions. So, traditionally, psychology is often broken upinto the following--into five sub-areas: Neuroscience, which is thestudy of the mind by looking at the brain; developmental, which is thearea which I focus mostly on, which is trying to learn about how peopledevelop and grow and learn; cognitive, which is the one term of thefive that might be unfamiliar to some of you, but it refers to a sortof computational approach to studying the mind, often viewing the mindon analogy with a computer and looking at how people do things likeunderstand language, recognize objects, play games, and so on. There issocial, which is the study of how people act in groups, how people actwith other people. And there is clinical, which is maybe the aspect ofpsychology that people think of immediately when they hear psychology,which is the study of mental health and mental illness. And we'll becovering all of those areas.心理学空间-y;T5bh`g
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