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List of Required Readings:

• Terrace, H. S. Chapters 1-6, 8-10 & 12 (in manuscript form) are available at the College Bookstore. NOTE: Chapters 7 & 11 are not and will not be available.
• Asch, S. "Opinions and Social Pressure." Scientific American, November, 1955. Vol. 193, Iss. 5, p31-35.
• Block, N.J. & Dworkin, G. The IQ Controversy, Critical Readings. [Selections]
• Freud, S. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. Chapters 27 & 28.
• Gregory, R.L. Eye and Brain. McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition. pp. 9-24, 37-66, 76-91.
• Hess, E. "Imprinting in Animals." Scientific American. March, 1958. Vol. 198, Iss 3, p. 81-90.
• Lazarus, A. A. "The treatment of chronic frigidity by systematic desensitization." The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1963, p. 272-278.
• Lehrman, D. S. "The Reproductive Behavior of Ring Doves." Scientific American, November, 1964., Vol. 211, Iss. 5, pp. 48-54.
• Milgram, S. "Behavioral study of obedience." Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 1963, pp. 371-378.
• Premack, D. & Premack, A. "Teaching Language to an Ape." Scientific American, October, 1972.
• Shettleworth, S.J. Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior. pp 96-98, 110-112.
• Szasz, T. S. "The myth of mental illness." American Psychologist, 1960, 113-118.
• Terrace, H. S. "How Nim Chimpsky Changed My Mind." Psychology Today, November, 1979.
• Tuddenham, R. S. "Jean Piaget and the world of the child." American Psychologist, 1966, 21 (3) p. 207-217.
  

Lecture #1 – September 2
INTRODUCTION
Required Readings:
- Terrace, H. S. Chapter 1, "Introduction."Suggested Readings:
- Bever and Terrace. "Introduction and review of the issues," pp. 3-8.
- Bever, T. G. and Terrace, H. S. Human behavior: Prediction and control in modern society.
- Bronowski, J. Science and human values. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
- Kuhn, T. The structure of scientific revolutions. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1972.
- Miller, G. A. "Psychology as a means of promoting human welfare," pp. 147-159.
- Skinner, B. F. Science and human behavior. New York: The Free Press, 1953.
- Skinner, B. F. Beyond Freedom & Dignity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.
- Skinner, B. F. "The design of cultures," pp. 11-23;

Lecture #2 – September 4
HISTORY AND BASIC PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS
Required Readings:
- Terrace, H. S. Chapter 2, "History."
Suggested Readings:
- Herrnstein, R. and Boring E. A source book in the history of psychology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.
- Hilgard, E. R. Psychology in America: A Historical Survey. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, Inc., 1987.
- Murphy, G. and Kovack, J. Historical introduction to modern psychology. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich, Inc., 1972
- Rachlin, H. Introduction to modern behaviorism. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1970. Paperback.

Lecture #3 – September 9
FREUD
Required Readings:
- Terrace, H. S. Chapter 3, "Freud."Suggested Readings:
- Brown, R. Social psychology. New York: The Free Press, 1986.
- Hall, C. S. Primer of Freudian psychology. New York: The World Publishing Co., 1954.
- Freud, S. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Chapters 1-3, 5-11, 17-20.
- Freud, S. The interpretation of dreams. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1960.
- Freud, S. Three contributions to the theory of sex. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1962.
- Jones, E. The life and work of Sigmund Freud. New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1963.

Lecture #4 – September 11
PIAGET
Required Readings:
- Terrace, H. S. Chapter 4, "Piaget."
- Tuddenham, R. "Jean Piaget and the world of the child." American Psychologist. 1958, pp. 1-15. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.Suggested Readings:
- Brown, R. Social psychology. New York: The Free Press, 1965.
- Flavel, J. H., Miller, P. H., Miller, S. A. Cognitive development (3rd ed.). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993.
- Furth, Hans G. Piaget and knowledge. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prenctice-Hall, Inc., 1969.
- Ginsberg, H. and Opper, S. Piaget's theory of intellectual development: An introduction. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1969

Lectures #5 and #6 –September 16 & 18
ETHOLOGY, APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR, AGGRESSION AND SEXUAL BEHAVIORRequired Readings:
- Terrace, H. S. Chapter 5, "Motives & Instincts."
- Hess, E. H. "Imprinting."
- Lehrman, D. S. "The reproductive behavior of ring doves." Scientific American reprint #488, November, 1964.
Suggested Readings:
- Alcock, J. Animal behavior: An evolutionary approach (3rd edition). Sunderland, MA: Sinaeuer Associates, 1984.
- Carlson, N.R. Physiology of Behavior. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1986 (3rd edition).
- Eibel-Eibesfeldt, I. Love and hate. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.
- Ford, C. and Beach, F. Patterns in sexual behavior. New York: Harper and Row, 1951.
- Hinde, R. A. Animal behavior. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970, 2nd ed.
- Lorenz, K. On aggression. (Translated by M. K. Wilson). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.
- Tinbergen, N. The study of instinct. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951.

Lecture #7 – September 23
CLASSICAL CONDITIONING
Required Readings:
- Terrace, H. S. Chapter 6, "Conditioning," pp. 1-18Suggested Readings:
- Black, A. H. and Prokasy, W. F. Classical conditioning II: Current research and theory. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1965.
- Gallistel, C. R. The organization of learning. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990.
- Terrace, H. S. "Classical conditioning." In Nevin, J. A. (ed.), The study of behavior: Learning, motivation, emotion, and instinct. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1973, pp. 41-114.

Lecture #8 and #9 - September 30 & October 2
OPERANT CONDITIONING*NOTE: The movie BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION - LOVASS will be shown on September 30.Required Readings:
- Terrace, H.S., Chapter 6, “Conditioning,” pp. 18-34.
Suggested Readings:
- Estes, W. K. Learning theory and mental development. New York: Academic Press, 1970.
- Honig, W. K. Stimulus control, operant behavior: Areas of research and application. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1966.
- Rachlin, H. Introduction to modern behaviorism. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman & Co., 1970. Paperback.
- Skinner, B. F. Science and human behavior. New York: Macmillan, 1953, Chpts. 5-7.
- Skinner, B. F. About Behaviorism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.

Lecture #10 – October 7
CRITIQUE OF BEHAVIORISMRequired Readings:
- Shettleworth, S J. Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior. pp. 96-98, 110-112Suggested Readings:
- Gardner, H. The mind's new science: A history of the cognitive revolution. New York: Basic Books, 1985.
- Hebb, O. The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1949.
- Lashley, K. S. "The problem of serial order in behavior." In Jeffress, L. A. (Ed.) Cerebral mechanisms in behavior, the Hixon symposium. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1951.

Lecture #11 – October 9
LANGUAGE I
*NOTE: The movie SIGNS OF THE WHALES, SIGNS OF THE APES will be shown on October 15th
Required Readings:
- Premack, D. and Premack, A. "Teaching language to an ape." Scientific American, March, 1958. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
- Terrace, H. S. "How Nim Chimpsky changed my mind." Psychology Today, 1979. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.Suggested Readings:
- Cheney, D. L. and Seyfarth, R. M. How monkeys see the world. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
- Gardner, R. A. and Gardner, B. T. "Teaching sign language to a chimpanzee." Science, 1969, 165, pp. 664-672.
- Rumbaugh, D. (Ed.) Language learning by a chimpanzee: The Lana project. New York: Academic Press, 1972.
- Slobin, D. I. Psycholinguistics. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman & Co. 2nd ed., pp. 133-142.
- Terrace, H. S. Nim. New York: A. Knopf, 1979.

Lecture #12 and #13 – October 14 & 16
LANGUAGE II & IIIRequired Readings:
- Terrace, H. S. Chapter 9, "Language."Suggested Readings:
- Brown, R. Social Psychology. Second Edition. New York: The Free Press. 1986.
- Brown, R. A first language: The early stages. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973.
- Fodor, J. A., Bever, T. G. and Garrett, M. F. The psychology of language. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
- Lyons, J. Chomsky. London: The Chaucer Press, Ltd. Fontana Modern Masters, 1970. Paperback.
- Pinker, S. The Language Instinct. New York: Morrow, 1994.
- Slobin, D. Psycholinguistics. Chapter 1, pp. 1-125 (middle).
ß Chapter 4, pp. 73-92, 100-106.
ß Chapter 5, pp. 114-133.

--Lectures #14, 15 & 16 - October 21, 23, & 28
SENSATION AND PERCEPTION
Required Readings:
- Gregory, R.L. Eye and Brain. McGraw-Hill, 3rd Edition, 9-24, 37-66, 76-91. Available on Reserve in Psych Library.
- Terrace, H.S. Chapter 8, “Sensation”.Suggested Readings:
- Herrnstein, R. J. and Boring, E. G. A source book in the history of psychology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.
- Hochberg, J. E. Perception. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964.
- Hubel, D. H. and Wiesel, T. N. "Perceptive fields of single neurons in the cat's striate cortex." Journal of Physiology, 1959, pp. 574-591. Irvington reprint #Y-649.
- Kling and Riggs. Woodworth and Schlosberg's experimental psychology. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc., 1971.
- Lettvin, J. Y., Maturana, H. R., McCulloch, W. S. and Pitts, W. H. "What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain." Proceedings of the Instit. of radio engineers, 1959, pp. 1940-1951. Irvington reprint #Y-667.
- Rock, I. Perception, W.H. Freeman, 1986.
- Thompson, R. Foundations of physiological psychology. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

Lectures #17 and #18 – November 6 & 11
MEMORY
Required Readings:
- Terrace, H.S. Chapter 10, “Memory.
Suggested Readings:
- Gardner, H. The Mind’s New Science: A History of the Cognitive Revolution. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1985.
- Herrnstein, R.J. and Boring, E.G. A source book in the history of psychology. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965.
- Lindsay, R. H. and Norman, D. A. Human information processing: An introduction to psychology. New York: Academic Press, 1972.
- Loftus, E.F. “The malleability of human memory.” American Scientist, 67, 317-320, 1979.

Lecture #19 – November 13
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGYRequired Readings:
- Asch, S. "Opinions and social pressure." Scientific American reprint #450, November, 1955. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
- Milgram, S. "Behavioral study of obedience." Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 1963, pp. 371-378. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
*NOTE: The movie OBEDIENCE will be shown in class on November 19.Suggested Readings:
- Schachter, S. & Singer, J. "Cognitive, social and physiological determinants of emotional state." Psychological Review, 1062, pp. 379-399. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
- Brown, R. Social Psychology.
- Milgram, S. J. Obedience to authority. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
- Schachter, S. Emotion, obesity and crime. New York: Academic Press, 1971.

Lecture #20 - November 18
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTSRequired Readings:
- Terrace, H. S. Chapter 12, "Measurement."Suggested Readings:
- Anastasi, A. Psychological testing. New York: Macmillan, 1968. Chapters 4-6. (Ignore technical material!).
- Stevens, S. S. Handbook of experimental psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1951.

Lecture #21 – November 20
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
Required Readings:
- Block, N.J. & Dworkin, G. The IQ Controversy, Critical Readings. [Selections] ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY
Suggested Readings:
- Harvard Educational Review. Environment, heredity and intelligence. Reprint Series No. 2. Cambridge: Harvard Educational Review, 1969.
- Harvard Education Review. Science, heritability and I.Q. Reprint Series No. 4. Cambridge: Harvard Educational Review, 1969.
- Herrnstein, R. J. I.Q. in the meritocracy. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1971.
- Jensen, A. P. Educability and group differences. New York: Harper and Row, 1973.
- Layzer, D. "Science of superstition? A physical scientist looks at the I.Q. controversy." Cognition, 1972, 1, 2/3, 265-299.

Lecture #22- November 25
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Required Readings:
- Szasz, T. S. "The myth of mental illness." American Psychologist, 1960, pp. 113-118. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
Suggested Readings:
- Jackson, D. "Schizophrenia." Scientific American. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
- Davison, G. C. & Stuart, R. B (1975). "Behavior Therapy and Civil Liberties." American Psychologist, 30, 755-763.
- Gorenstein, E. E. (1984). "Debating Mental Illness: Implications for Science, Medicine, and Social Policy." American Psychologist, 39(1), 50-56.
- Mischel, W. Introduction to Personality, 1976, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
- Neale, J. M. & Oltmanns, T. O. (1980). Schizophrenia. New York: Wiley.
Lecture #23 – December 2
BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
Required Readings:
- Freud, S. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. Chapters. 27 and 28. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
- Lazarus, A. A. "The treatment of chronic frigidity by systematic desensitization." The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1963, pp. 272-278. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.Suggested Readings:
- Brady, J. and Lind, D. "Experimental analysis of hysterical blindness." Archives of General Psychiatry, 1961, pp. 331-339. ON RESERVE IN PSYCHOLOGY LIBRARY.
- Martin, G. & Pear, J. (1983). Behavior Modification: What Is It and How To Do It, Second Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
- Singer, E. Key concepts in psychotherapy. 2nd edition. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1970.
- Strupp, H. H. (1978). "Psychotherapy Research and Practice: An Overview." In A. E. Bergin and S. L. Garfield (Eds.), Handbook of Pychotherapy and Behavior Change: An Empirical Analysis, Second Edition. New York: Wiley.
- Ullman, L. P. and Krasner, L. A psychological approach to abnormal behavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.