School of Health Sciences Discipline of Psychology

BESC1123/1380 Principles of Psychology Weekly Schedule

Prescribed texts: (BWK) Burton, L.J., Westen, D., & Kowalski, R.M. (2009). Psychology. (2nd ed.). Australia: John Wiley and Sons. (S) Salkind, N. (2009). Exploring research (7th ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Prentice Hall. (B) Burton, L.J. (2010). Interactive approach to writing essay and research reports in psychology. (3rd ed.) Australia: John Wiley and Sons.

Wk 1

Date July 18/19 July 25/26

Lecture Program What is psychology? Ethics and Psychological Research Psychopathology 1: Introduction

Doing Research (DR)

Tutorial Program No tutorial

Readings BWK Ch. 1 S Ch.3B

Due Dates

DR 1: Introduction to the lab report DR 2: Why do we do research and how do we do it well?

Psychopath exercises BWK Ch. 15, What is a lab report? pp.587-611 B Ch.5 BWK Ch.15 pp.615-620 B pp.5-15, 89-90, & Ch. 6 S Ch 11 & 12

Short Quiz 1 fundamentals of a lab report

Psychopathology 2: Mood Disorders 3 Aug 1/2

Psychopath exercises Writing the Introduction and citing sources

Short Quiz 2 citing sources Data collection for lab report

Psychopathology 3: Anxiety Disorders 4 Aug 8/9

Psychopath exercises Putting together a reference list

BWK Ch.15 pp.621-625 B p.106 & Ch.7 BWK Ch.15 pp.625-627 BWK Ch.11 pp.413-427

Short Quiz 3 formatting the reference list

Aug 15/16 Aug 22/23 Aug 29/30

Psychopathology 4: Eating Disorders Personality 1: Intro to Personality & Psychodynamic Theories

Psychopath exercises

Lab report intro due

Personality exercises Writing the method

Short Quiz 4 writing the method

B pp. 91-93 MID SEMESTER BREAK DR 3: Understanding our results: descriptive statistics Test administration BWK and feedback Ch.11 pp.433 Intro feedback session -441,445-447 S Ch 7 BWK Ch.11 pp.428-423, 441-444, 449-452 B pp 93-105 BWK Ch.18 pp.738-745 B pp. 105106 S Ch 8 & 9 BWK Ch.18 pp745-758 B Ch. 8 In-class test Lab report intro returned

Personality 2: Type vs. Trait Theories & Genetic Influences Sept 5/6

Personality 3: Humanistic & Cognitive-Social Theories 8 Sept 12/13

Personality exercises Reporting and interpreting results

Short Quiz 5 reporting results

Social Psychology 1: Aggression 9 Sept 19/20

DR 4: Understanding our results: ttests and correlations

Social Psych exercises

10

Sept 26/27

Social Psychology 2: Social Influence

Social Psych exercises Final check and FAQs

11 12

Oct 3/4 Oct 10/11

Social Psychology 3: Prosocial Behaviour Review

Social Psych exercises Review Course Evaluation

BWK Ch.18 pp.733-739

Lab report due