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Assignment Table

Due Task Value Course Learning

Requirements

Assignment 1 – Reviewing Research 10% CLR1

Discussion Forum 1 – The Important Role of 5% CLR6

Memory

Discussion Forum 2 – Multiple Intelligences 5% CLR2

Assignment 2: Classical Conditioning 15% CLR5

Discussion Forum 3: Application of 5% CLR3

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (5%)

Assignment 3: The Five-Factor Personality 10% CLR7

Test

Assignment 4: Group Project 25% CLR1, 2, 3, 5, 6

Assignment 5: Peer Evaluation 5% CLR1, 2, 3, 5, 6

Assignment 6: Stress Management Plan 20% CLR4

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Theme or Topic Readings for Course Learning Learning Activities Assignments /Tests /E
k
Lesson/Module Lesson/Module Content Requirements (practice) (with % or point value

Read the welcome Review the “Getting Started”

announcement on section on Brightspace
re Brightspace
s Introductions
ns Post an introduction (and optional
Review the course photo) in the introductions forum
materials for this course on the discussion board

Module 1 Goals of Psychology

1 CLR1
Goals of Module 1 Course Notes
Psychology

Reflection on Naturalistic
Observation
Textbook pages 85-90, 93-
Module 2 95 Types of Descriptive Research
2 CLR1
Research in Module 2 Course Notes Breaking Down Experimental
Psychology
Research

Reflecting on Research

Assignment 1: Reviewi
3 Module 2 cont’d CLR1
Research (10%) due w

Systems of Memory

Categorizing Different Types of

Module 3
Module 3 Course Notes Memory Discussion Forum 1: Th
4 CLR 6 Important Role of Mem
Human Memory due week 4
Textbook pages 340-348 Demonstration of primacy and
Systems
recency effect

Reasons we Forget
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Identifying Multiple Intelligences

Module 4
Module 4 Course Notes
Emotional Intelligence Self-
Discussion Forum 2: M
5 Measures, Types, CLR2 Assessment
Textbook pages 387-392, Intelligences (5%) due
and Theories of
395-396
Intelligence Emotional Intelligence in your
Everyday Life

Module 5 CLR5 The Little Albert Experiment Assignment 2: Classica

Module 5 Course Notes Conditioning (15%) due
6 Shaping Classical Conditioning in your Life
Behaviour Textbook pages 304-316
through Learning Operant Conditioning Matching

Module 6 CLR3 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation Discussion Forum 3:

Module 6 Course Notes
Theories of
7 Motivation Section 55 of “Psychology”
“Punished by Rewards”
Application of Maslow’s
Optimal Levels of Arousal Hierarchy of Needs (5%
week 7
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

CLR3 Evaluating Freud’s Psychosexual

Module 7 Course Notes Theory
Module 7
8 Textbook pages 503-510 Compare and Contrast Freud and
Theories of Neo-Freudians
Personality Section 62 of “Psychology”
Theorists and their Ideas

CLR7 Cattell’s Personality Factors

Questionnaire Assignment 3: The Five
Module 8
Module 8 Course Notes Personality Test (10%)
9 Personality Traits That Help week 9
Personality and Teachers and Students Succeed
Textbook pages 489-490
Potential
Best Possible Self

10 Module 9 Module 9 Course Notes CLR4 Identify the GAS Stage

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Theories of Textbook pages 695-698 Social Readjustment Rating

Stress Scale

Process-Based Model of Stress

CLR4 Assignment 4: Group P

(25%) due week 11
11 Module 9 cont’d
Assignment 5: Peer Ev
(5%) due week 11

CLR4 Coping Resources

Module 10 Module 10 Course Notes
12 Locus of Control
Staying Healthy Textbook pages 698-702
Self-Care in a Selfless Field

CLR4 Assignment 6: Stress

Management Plan (20%
13 Module 10 cont’d
week 13

This course does not have an in-person exam.

14 The stress management plan worth 20% is the final assessment for this course.