Social Psychology (2606)
Spring 2001  

Schedule and Outlines

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Date	Chapter	Topic	Assignment
1/16	1	General Class Info & Introduction to Social Psychology
1/18	2	Methodology: How Social Psychologists Study Social Psychology
1/23	5	Self Perception Part 1 -- What is the self?
		Take a self-esteem questionnaire by clicking here. To access the questionnaire, choose the "I'm OK, You're OK, Right? " option under Chapter 3.
		Take a self-handicapping questionnaire by clicking here. To access the questionnaire, choose the "Creating Cop-Outs?" option under Chapter 3.
1/25	5	Part 2 -- Self-regulation
1/30	6	Self justification
2/1		*****NO CLASS*****
2/6		**********EXAM 1********** Lectures 1/16-1/30 & Chapters 1,2,5&6 Get a copy of the study guide
2/8	3	Social Cognition Part 1 -- Schemas
		Do a demonstration on shortcuts and schemas by clicking here. Choose "shortcuts and schemas" under Chapter 4
2/13	3	Part 2 -- Effects of schemas: How they affect our understanding of social psych experiments
2/15	4	Social Perception Part 1 -- First impressions
2/20	4	Part 2 -- Causal attributions
		See the examples you generated for Kelly's covariation model. It would not at all be surprising if some of these appeared on an exam...
		How are our impressions affected by race? Read the Daily Camera article talking about a 3rd grader's science fair project that addresses this topic.
2/22	10	Attraction Part 1 -- First impressions
2/27	10	Part 2 -- Close relationships and love
3/1		"**********EXAM 2********** Lectures 2/8-2/27 & Chapters 3,4,&10 Get a copy of the study guide
3/6	8	Conformity Part 1 - Informational & Normative Social Influence	App paper 1 due
3/8	8	Part 2 - Persuasion
		Learn more about compliance. Take the influence quotient questionnaire. Many of the questions directly test material we covered in class. You should be able to answer these correctly.
3/13	8	Part 3 - Obedience to Authority
		Learn more about Milgram and his obedience experiments
3/15	7	Attitudes Part 1 -- Their origins and relation to behavior
3/20	7	Part 2 -- Changing attitudes
3/22	11	Prosocial Behavior Part 1 -- Theories of Helping (no outline. see study guide for list of relevant concepts)
3/27 & 3/29		Spring Break
4/3	11	Part 2 -- When will people help
		Read more about Kitty Genovese's murder, which started much researchon bystander intervention
4/5		**********EXAM 3********** Lectures 3/6-4/3 & Chapters 7,8,11 get a copy of the study guide
4/10	12	Aggression Part 1 -- Causes of aggression	App paper 2 due
4/12	12	Part 2 -- Social Issues
		Do violent video games make people more violent?
4/17	13	Prejudice Part 1 -- Stereotypes
		Stereotype Threat article in the Atlantic Monthly, by Claude Steele
4/19	13	Part 2 -- Prejudice
		Learn more about the jigsaw classroom approach
4/24	13	Part 3 -- Racism & Sexism
		Complete an IAT. Visit both the Yale web page and the Tolerance.org page for different kinds of IATS that measure different kinds of biases.
		Consider how sex and sexist images are used in advertising
4/26	SPA3	Social Psychology and the Law
		How good of an eyewitness would you make?
5/1	SPA1	Stress and Health
5/3	SPA1	Health Part 2, Wrap up	App paper 3 due
5/7		**********FINAL, 10:30 - 1:00.*********** Lectures 4/10-5/3 & Chapters 12, 13, SPA1, SPA3 Get a copy of the study guide

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