Schedule and Outlines Social Psychology Fall 2001

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Date	Chapter	Topic	Assignment
8/28	1	General Class Info & Introduction to Social Psychology
8/30	2	Methodology: How Social Psychologists Study Social Psychology
9/4	2	Methods part 2
9/6	5	Self Perception Part 1 -- What is the self?
9/11	5	Self Part 2 : Class was shortened today and we did not talk about any material on the self. Instead, we will talk about that material on 9/13.
		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.
9/13	6	Self justification
9/18		**********EXAM 1********** Click here for important information regarding info you will *not* need to know for the exam Click here for the study guide.
9/20	3	Social Cognition Part 1 -- Schemas
		Do a demonstration on shortcuts and schemas by clicking here. Choose "shortcuts and schemas" under Chapter 4
		Learn more about the representative heuristic in this detailed tutorial
		Info and links on counterfactual thinking
9/25	3	Part 2 -- Effects of schemas: Shortcuts and biases
9/27	4	Social Perception Part 1 -- Causal attributions
10/2	4	Part 2 -- First impressions
		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.
10/4		FALL BREAK
10/9	10	Attraction Part 1 -- Close relationships and love
10/11	10	Part 2 -- Friendship and initial attraction
		See a demonstration on how composites of faces are perceived as more attractive than the individual faces
10/16		"**********EXAM 2********** Click here for the study guide
10/18	8	Conformity Part 1 - Obedience to Authority	App paper 1 due
		Learn more about Milgram and his obedience experiments
10/23	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.
10/25	8	Part 3 - Informational and Normative Social Influence
10/30	7	Attitudes Part 1 -- Their origins and relation to behavior
11/1	7	Part 2 -- Changing attitudes
		Read a recent review about subliminal influence. Includes lots of good references
11/6	11	Prosocial Behavior Part 1 -- Theories of Helping
11/8	11	Part 2 -- When will people help
		Read more about Kitty Genovese's murder, which started much researchon bystander intervention
11/13		**********EXAM 3********** Click here for the study guide
11/15	12	Aggression Part 1 -- Causes of aggression	App paper 2 due
11/20	12	Part 2 -- Social Issues
		Do violent video games make people more violent?
11/22		THANKSGIVING
11/27	13	Prejudice Part 1 -- Stereotypes
		Stereotype Threat article in the Atlantic Monthly, by Claude Steele
		Read more about illusory correlations
11/29	13	Part 2 -- Prejudice
		Learn more about the jigsaw classroom approach
12/4	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
12/6	SPA3	Social Psychology and the Law
		How good of an eyewitness would you make?
12/11	SPA1	Stress and Health
		Read more about the effects of social support and assess your own level of social support
12/13	SPA1	Health Part 2, Wrap up	App paper 3 due
12/14		**********FINAL, 7:30 - 10:00PM.*********** Click here for a copy of the quiz from the 1st day of class Click here for a copy of the final study guide

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