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LONG SYLLABUS AND READING LIST

The Science of Psychology, W1001y, Graham, Spring 1999

This syllabus and reading list are offered as a general guide to the course and to your reading.

Required readings: The only readings that are required are the "Required Reading" directly under the major headings (those giving class numbers) in the list below.

Most of the required readings are from the textbook, which is Psychology by Peter Gray (Third Edition. Worth: NY. 1999) A small amount of other required reading may be added to this list at a later date.

This is not the sort of material that you can just read through once and look over before the exam. This is the sort of material that requires extensive studying to understand and to remember.

Exception to last statement: where you are told to "skim" below, you are meant to only read once through (rather quickly, you needn't study).

You should probably pace your reading in order to read much of the relevant material before each lecture. But you may wish to study the material in detail after the relevant lectures. Don't forget to read the figures and figu re legends -- they contain a good deal of information.

The textbook by Gray that we use (and also the textbook by Henry Gleitman) are useful general references to the current state of psychology. You may wish to keep the textbook after the course is over. If so, you should probably write in the margins w hile studying (e.g. questions, summaries, ideas).

For those of you who eventually take the psychology GRE: The textbooks by Gray and Gleitman are reputed to be very good for studying for the psychology GRE.

A study guide to the Gray textbook is also available. Some students find it useful. Others don't.

Optional readings: Subheadings are given under the major headings. Most of the subheadings give special topics that may be discussed in class. The readings listed under these subheadings are optional and are listed for those who wish to pursue some of the topics further and/or as references for material given in the lecture but not in the text. Some of the references for special topics are primary journal articles and may be quite difficult to understand. If you also do some suitable backgro und reading, however, these references ought to be useful to you.

The books and journal articles ought to be available in the psychology library If you have difficulty finding any of the references, I would be happy to lend you my copy to xerox -- if I still have a copy to lend.

The newspaper and magazine articles listed below -- as well as some others -- will be posted on the bulletin board outside my office during the appropriate weeks of the course. (If you come visit me, you can read my bulletin boards too!)

General note. Current Directions in Psychological Science , Trends in Neurosciences, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences are journals meant to introduce current topics in neuroscience and psychology to non-experts in the topic. Each month they present many mini-reviews of currently-interesting topics.

This list is tentative. Changes may occur. There will certainly be some changes in what special topics are discussed. (If any of the topics listed or some related topics are of special interest to you, you are welcome to tell me so, a nd then I will make a particular effort to include them this year.) There may some modifications in the reading assignments.

The organization of this course is, roughly, from the little to the big. It begins with single molecules & cells -- then goes on to systems within a single individual -- then to the whole person -- then to gro ups of persons. It ends with the topic of Health and Illness, which depends on all the previous levels, from the littlest to the biggest.

•INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLASSES 1-2)

Required reading: From Gray's text: (a) Preface; (b)"To The Student";
(c) pp. 323-331 of Ch. 9 (for study hints -- we will read this again later); (d) Ch.2 on methods (Can skim statistics pp. 38- 41. It will be assigned later.); and (e) Ch.1 on history.

Please read much of this before class 2, and all before class 3.

Optional reading of an introductory sort

To Know A Fly. Dethier, V. (1962) This is a delightful illustration of scientific research -- how it proceeds, its pitfalls, its joys.

Graph it. How to make, read, and interpret graphs. (1992) Bowen, R.

•NEURON AND BRAIN (CLASSES 2-6)

Required reading: From Gray textbook: (a) Ch. 5 (the nervous system). Skim p. 165-7. You can skim p. 171-3 (will be assigned later). (b) Ch. 7 (sensation). You can skim the parts on "Pain" and "Psycho physics" (p. 259-269).

Suggestions for reading schedule: For class 3, read Ch. 5 (nervous system overall) ; for class 4, review it. For classes 5 and 6, read Ch. 7 (sensory systems). Also there are many places later in the book referring to concepts we will mention in this section. You might find them useful. You can find the pages in the index.

(Remember - everthing below the paragraph on required reading is OPTIONAL)
***GENERAL REFERENCES FOR NEUROSCIENCE - useful throughout course.***

Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology. 1997. Ed. by Feinberg, T.E. and Farah, Martha J.

Principles of Neural Science. 3rd edition (1991) ed. by Kandel,E.R, Schwartz, J.H., and Jessell, T.M. (Large, but cheap as books go.) May be new edition soon. Is a widely-used text.

Fundamental of Human Neuropsychology 3rd edition (1990) by Kolb, B. and Whishaw, I.Q.

Also the journal Trends in Neurosciences.

Neural transmitters and diseases like Parkinson's & Schizophrenia

Video: More than a Movie (about the post-encephalitic Parkinsonspatients shown in Awakenings )

Localization of function -- hemispheric differences and more

Laterality and myth. By Corballis, M

Right brain, left brain: Fact or fiction. By Levy, J. (1985) Psychology Today. 19 (May) pp 38-45

The February 1998 issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science contains many articles on lateralization of function (right/left hemispheric differences).

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Sacks, Oliver (1985) A set of essays, written for public consumption and thus quite easy and pleasant to read, on a number of interesting brain-damaged patients.

Videotape demos: excerpts from NOVA's: Left Brain, Right Brain.

Dyslexia

"To see but not to see: the magnocellular theory of dyslexia." By J. Stein and V. Walsh Trends in Neurosciences, 1997, Vol. 20, #4, p. 147-152.

"The evidence for a temporal processing deficit linked to dyslexia: A Review." By Farmer, M.E. and Klein, R.M. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, Dec. 1995, 2,4,460-493. Plus 4 commentaries by various authors, p. 494-526

Study ties dyslexia to brain flaw affecting vision and other senses. NYTimes. 9/15/91, p. 1 & p. 30.

Physiological and anatomical evidence for a magnocellular defect in developmental dyslexia. By Livingston, M.S. et al (1991). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Sept. 91, Vol. 88, pp. 7943-7947.

Dyslexia and Brain Morphology. by Hynd, G.W., and Semrud-Clikeman, M. (1989) Psychological Bulletin, 106, 3, 447-482.

Also see reference under Neural Networks under Learning and Memory.

•SEEING, HEARING, AND PERCEIVING (CLASSES 6-8)

Required reading: Ch. 8 (on perception) and review Ch.7 (sensation ) of Gray text.

Suggestion for reading schedule : For class 6, you should finish reading Ch. 7 if you didn't already. Start reading Ch. 8 for class 6 and finish for class 7. For class 8 read genetics and evolution (see next section).

This a lot of material. I wonder if I should also leave out hearing in Ch. 8 if I don't mention it this year and something in Ch. 9 -- in Ch. 9 could say skim motion mid p. 317-mid319. Of course explicitly moving Ch. 7 to be in neuron and brain section only leaves Ch. 8 for this section and that isn't so bad!

General references for sensation and perception

Ratliff, F. (1965) Mach Bands: Quantitative Studies on Neural Networks in the Retina. A wonderful account of how an astronomer's puzzlement and the eye of the horsehoe crab led to some insights about neural n etworks' action in visual perception.

Hochberg, J. E. (1978) Perception.

Marr, D. (1982) Vision.

V. Bruce & P.R. Green.Visual Perception. Physiology, Psychology, &Ecology. 2nd. Ed.(1990)

Sekuler, R. and Blake, R. Perception. (several editions)

Wandell, B. (1995) Foundations of Vision. Sinauer.

Localization of function -- visual pathways in the brain

Visual Agnosias: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us about Normal Vision. Farah, Martha (1990) Oxford Press. The conclusions are summarized in a short article called

"Object recognition: You may mistake your wife for a hat, but not for a word" by M. Farah (pp 164-169 of Oct. 1992 Current Directions in Psychological Science). Summarizes her book.

McCloskey, M. and Palmer, E. (1996) Visual representation of object location: insights from localization impairments. Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 5, #1, pp25-28

Neural foundations of visual motion perception. By Movshon, J.A., and Newsome, W.T. (Feb. 92. Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 1, pp. 35-39)

Concurrent processing streams in monkey visual cortex. By DeYoe, E.A. and Van Essen, D.

Varieties of vision: from blind responses to conscious recognition. By Stoerig, Petra (1996) Trends in Neurosciences, Vol 19, No. 9, pp. 401-406.

Proximal versus distal stimuli. Constancies and ambiguities. Why does vision require so much (25-40%) of the cerebral cortex?

See, e.g. Hochberg, J. E. (1978) Perception.

Analysis: Color vision (additive vs. subtractive color mixture, opponent-color theory)

An opponent-process theory of color vision. Hurvich, L. and Jameson, D. (1957). Psychological Review, 64, 384-404. Also see Hochberg's book above.

Boynton, R.M. (1979) Human Color Vision.

Ratliff, F. (1992) Paul Signac and Color in Neo-Impression

Analysis: Low-level analyzers of visual & auditory stimuli (sinusoids, Fourier analysis)

"Breaking the visual stimulus into parts". Graham, N. (April 1992 Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol.1, pp. 55-61.) Summarizes book by Graham, N. (1989) Visual Pattern Analyzers. Oxfor d University Press

Introductory material for "Fourier analysis" ( the decomposition into sinusoidal parts as when a chord is decomposed into pure tones) can be found in book just referred to as well as in chapters by Graham and by Weisstein in Visual Coding and Adapta bility Harris, C., ed. (1980).

"The analysis of pattern" Ch.13 in Kaufman, L, (1974) Sight and Mind.

Synthesis: Putting things back together again into perceptions (representation of distal stimuli).

Impossible figures -- visual and auditory. See Hochberg's book, especially p. 152-154.

Circularity in pitch judgments. Shepard, R. N. (1964) J. Acoustical Soc. of Amer. 36, 2346-2353.

Filling-in effects, illusory-contours.

"Perceiving objects across gaps in space and time" pp.193-199 in Dec. 1992 Current Directions in Psychological Science, by P.J. Kellman and T.F. Shipley.

"Filling in Gaps in Perception: Part I" pp.199-205 in Dec. 1992 Current Directions in Psychological Science, by V.S. Ramachandran.

III. Object perception.

Farah's work on agnosias also relevant here -- see reference under Visual Pathways above.

"Structure vs. Meaning in Object Perception", on pp. 141-145 of Oct. 1992 Current Directions in Psychological Science by Cooper, L.A., and Schachter

"Objects, attributes, and visual attention: which, what, and where" in Feb. 1992 Current Directions in Psychological Science by N.Kanwisher and J. Driver.

•GENETICS, EVOLUTION (CLASSES 8-9)

Required reading: Ch. 3 of text (genetics and evolution). Can skim pp. 82-90 (assigned second half of course.) Suggestion: Do reading by class 8; start motivation reading for class 9.

Overview

August 1997 issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science is a special issue on Behavioral Genetics. Contains articles on genetics and psychopathology, cognitive functioning, development, electrophysiolog y, personality.

Color Blindness

Mollon, John (1993) Colours seen with a Darwinian eye. (From his Darwin lecture. Reprinted in The Times Higher 9/10/93. Or book of all 1993 Darwin lectures from Cambridge Univ. Press.)

**** Put Mollon London Times article here I think??

Why analysis into color, into auditory sines, into visual sines, etc.?

What is evolutionary advantage to organisms of such analyses at low levels of sensory systems?

MOTIVATION AT THE LEVEL OF A SINGLE INDIVIDUAL: e.g. SLEEP, HUNGER, THIRST (CLASSES 9-11)

Required reading: In Ch. 6, read pp. 185-190 (drives), skim pp. 190-197 (hunger), read pp. 204-6 (reward), 206-17 (sleep), and 226-7 (concl). Suggestion: Finish reading by class 10.

Drive versus incentive theories

Chapter 5. Motivation and learning. In Wickelgren, W.A. (1979) Learning and memory.

Sleeping and Dreaming

What is a dream? Seligman, M.E.P. and Yellen, A. (1987) Behav. Res. Ther. , 25, 1, 1-24. Contains an integrative theory of dreams that melds many aspects of other theories.

Eating and Dieting

Brownell, K.D. and Rodin, J. (1994) The dieting maelstrom: Is it possible and advisable to lose weight? American Psychologist, Vol. 49, 9, pp. 781-791.

•LEARNING, ESPECIALLY CLASSICAL AND OPERANT CONDITIONING (CLASSES 11-12)

Required reading: Ch. 4 of text.

Optional reading: General references for this section

Introduction to modern behaviorism. 3rd ed. Rachlin, H. (1991)

Principles of Psychology (1950), Keller, F.S. and Schoenfeld, W.W.. Appleton-Century. A classic.

Guest lecture: Lisa Son, Graduate Student, Dept. of Psychology

Classical (Pavlovian) conditioning, old vs. new interpretations

Pavlovian Conditioning. It's not what you think it is. Rescorla, R. (1988). American Psychologist., 43, 151-160.

On the cerebellum and classical conditioning. Daum, I. and Schugens, M. M. (1996) Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 58-61.

Behavior therapy

Movie Demo: Behavior Modification: Teaching Language to Psychotic Children (Lovaas's work)

Learned industriousness

Transfer of effort across behaviors. Eisenberger, R., Carlson, J, Guile, M, & Shapiro, N. (1979). Learning and Motivation, 10, 178-197.

Required high effort increases subsequent persistence and reduces cheating. Eisenberger, R.& Masterson, FA. (1983). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44, 593-599.

Neural basis of conditioning and other simple forms of learning

Is there a cell-biological alphabet for simple forms of learning. Hawkins, R., and Kandel, E.(1984) Psychological Review, 91, 375-391.

•LEARNING AND MEMORY IN HUMANS (CLASSES 12-14)

Required reading: Ch. 9 of text. In Ch. 5pp 171-174 (neural basis of learning)

Chunking, Neural Networks (see also Neural Substrate of Language)

Cognitive Psychology. by Wickelgren, W.A. (1979) Ch. 1. Introduction. Ch. 7. Short-term memory. Ch. 8. Associative long-term memory. and Ch.9. Retrieval: Recall and Recognition..

Audiotape: NETTALK demonstration of neural network. By Sejnowski and Rosenberg (1986). Described in "NET-talk: A parallel network that learns to read aloud." The Johns Hopkins E.E. and C.S. Tech. Report JHU/EECS-86-101.

A connectionist modeling approach to word recognition and dyslexia. By M. S. Seidenberg. Psychological Science, Sept. 1993, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 299-304.

Eyewitness testimony, False memories (Constructive memory)

When a lie becomes memory's truth: Memory distortion after exposure to misinformation. (October 1992, Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 1, p. 121-123.

See if I could put something explicit about "faces" either in heading title or in a new reference.

Maximizing the Utility of Eyewitness Identification Evidence. By G.L. Wells. C.A. E. Luus, and P.D. Windschitl (1994) . Current Directions in Psychological Sci., Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 194-197.

What we do NOT yet know about eyewitness identification. By H.E. Egeth (1993). American Psychologist, Vol. 48, #5,pp. 577-580. (Also 3 others articles in same issue:May 1993)

Memory, Abuse, and Science: Questioning claims about the false memory syndrome epidemic. American Psychologist, September 1996, Vol. 51, Nol 9, pp. 957-974.

Roediger, H.L. III and McDermott, K.B. (1996) Creating false memories: Remembering words not presented in lists. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1995, 21, 803-814.

Consolidation and forgetting (massed vs. distributed practice)

Storage: Consolidation and forgetting. Ch14 in Wickelgren, W.A. (1977) Learning and memory.

Conscious vs. unconscious memories.

pp. 141-145 of Oct. 1992'sCurrent Directions in Psychological Science by Cooper, L.A., and Schachter is also relevant here (see object perception above).

A process-dissociation framework for investigating unconscious influences: Freudian slips, projective tests, subliminal perception, and signal detection theory. By L.L. Jacoby and Colleen M. Kelly. on pp. 174-179 of Dec 1992 Current Directions in Psychological Science

There is a scribbled note here that says "The cognitive unconscious" I wonder what that is about.

Decided to omit the following for spring 97. pp. 635-7 of text talks about dissociations in hypnosis being like those in multiple personality. Hypnosis. Video Demonstration with Jack Hilgard of Stanford University.

•FIRST EXAM (CLASS 15)

Covers all material (required readings and lectures) since beginning of course.

•SOME STATISTICS, TESTING & MEASUREMENT (AS PARTS OF CLASSES 16-23)

Required reading for 16-19 (standard deviations, confidence limits): Chapter 2 (again, but this time emphasize pp.32-41). Statistical Appendix pp. A1-A7.

Required reading for 19-22 (correlations). Review Ch. 2, pp. 39. Read Stat. Appendix, pp. A8. In Ch. 10, review pp. 361-364 and 367-375.

Means and standard deviations, the central limit theorem and the normal distribution, the effect of sample size

Confidence limits (mean +/- standard error)-- an alternative to hypothesis testing

Correlation, reliability, and validity in intelligence and personality tests

Heritability of I.Q., personality, etc.

Sternberg, R.J. (1995) For whom the bell curve tolls. A review of The Bell Curve. In Psychological Science, Vol. 6, No. 5, p. 257 on.

•MEMORY, LANGUAGE, AND THOUGHT (CLASSES 16-18)

Required reading: In Ch. 9 review p. 335-339. Ch. 10 of text. Start Ch. 11. (Also see required reading in statistics subsection above.)

Removed for 97. Decided if wanted to use, should xerox on handout which is now legal: Brain yields new clues on its organization, N.Y. Times, 9/10/91. By Blakeslee.

General references for language

Gleitman's textbook is particularly good and detailed on language.

Pinker, S. (199x) The Language Instinct. Written for a wide audience and many like it.

NEED THE EXACT DATE>

Also see Rules in Language Use in Developmental section

Guest lecture: Ozlem Ayduk, Graduate Student, Dept. of Psychology

åConcepts (definitional versus family-resemblance meaning, concept learning)

Semantic Memory Coding, Concepts, Propositions, and Schemata. Chapter 10 in Wickelgren, W.A. (1979) Cognitive Psychology,

Gleitman, H. (1986) Psychology. 2nd ed. Ch. 9. See especially p. 302-307

Metaphor

Understanding Metaphors. By Sam Glucksberg. In Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 17, No. 2, April 1998, pp. 39-43.

Non-verbal gestures

Chawla, P. and Krauss, R. (1994) Gesture and Speech in Spontaneous and Rehearsed Narratives. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology., 30, 580-601.

Why do we gesture when we speak? By Robert M. Krauss. In Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. l7, No. 2, April 1998, pp. 54-60. (One Answer: To help us remember the words we need!)

Language of non-human animals

Videotape: NOVA: Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales.

Heuristics in human thinking (the conjunction fallacy; representativeness and availability heuristics)

On the psychology of prediction. Kahneman, D. and Tversky, A. (1973) Psychological Review, 80, 237-251.

Suppressing natural heuristics by formal instruction. The case of the conjunction fallacy. Agnoli, F., and Krantz, D.H. (1989), Cognitive psychology, 21, 515-550.

Neural substrate of language and thought

Cortical Organization of Language. G.A. Ojemann (1991) The J. of Neuroscience, 11, 2261-2287.

PET as part of an interdisciplinary approach to understanding processes involved in reading. By J.A. Fiez and S.A. Petersen (1993) Psychological Science, Vol. 4, No. 5, p. 287-293.

•INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (CLASSES 18-20)

Required reading: Finish Ch. 11 of text. In Ch. 12 read up to p. 467.

Guest appearance of the littlest T.A.: Trish's, or neighbor, or last year's

Rules in language use (language learning, sign language, gender & cultural differences)

Seeing Voices. By Oliver Sacks (1990) New York: HarperCollins (A popular book)

Critical Period Effects in Second Language Learning. By Johnson, and Newport (1989) Cognitive Psychology, 21, 60-99.

My notes say Should replace following by Natural History and American Scientist Articles.

Deaf babies use their hands to babble, researcher finds. NYTimes 3/22/91 by Natalie Angier

Babies learn sounds of language by 6 months. NY Times 2/4/92 by Sandra Blakeslee

Neural development (prenatal, infant, & aging)

Precocious cardiac orienting in a human anencephalic infant. By Graham, F.K., Leavitt, L.A., Strock, B.D., and Brown, J.W. (1978) Science, 199, 322-324.

Study finds men's brains deteriorate at greater rate. NY Times 4/2/91

Memory Changes in Normal Aging. Craik, F.M.(1994) Current Directions in Psych. 3, 155-8

Infant abilities

Schellenberg, E.G., and Trehub, S. E. (1996) Natural musical intervals: Evidence from infant listeners. Psychological Science, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 272-

The evolutionary functional question

Newport, E.L. (1991) Contrasting conceptions of the critical period for language. In S. Carey and R. Gelman (Eds). The epigenesis of mind: Essays on biology and cognition. Erlbaum.

Bjorklund and Green, in American Psychologist. Need full reference if I am to leave this here

Also see Dyslexia subsection in Neuron and Brain section

•PERSONALITY, EMOTION, AND MOTIVATION AT THE INTERPERSONAL LEVEL (CLASSES 20-23)

Required reading: In Ch. 3, read pp. 82-90 on evolution and motivation, and review material on pp. 73-79 on emotions. In Ch. 6, read pp. 197-204 (sex) and pp. 217-26 (emotions). Read rest of Ch. 12 ( p. 467 to end). Read all of Ch. 15. (Note: There is also material in Chs. 13 and 14 -- assigned for the next subsection -- on emotions.)

In Ch. 13, read pp. 507-19 (attitudes and emotions). In Ch. 14, read pp. 523-9 (emotions' influence in social behavior)

Guest lecture: Heidi Grant, Graduate Student, Dept. of Psychology

Hormones, reproductive, parental , and aggressive behavior (animal models)

Movie Demo: Research in laboratory of Prof. Rae Silver (of Barnard)

Hypotheses on homosexuality and the hypothalamus. The Journal of NIH Research, Nov. 1991, Vol. 3, pp. 20-21.

Does Testerone Equal Aggression? Maybe Not. New York Times. By Natalie Angier, 6/20/95

Putting the feeling back into (theories of) emotion

The concept of a different set of physiological changes in each emotion. Graham, D.T., Stern, J.A., and Winokur, G. (1960) Psychiatric Research Reports 12, 8-15.

Facial and autonomic manifestations of the dimensional structure of emotion. Winton, W.M., Putnam, L.E., and Krauss, R.M. (1984) Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, 20, 195-216.

If It's Not Left, It's Right. Electroencephalograph Asymetry and the Development of Emotion. Fox, N.A. (1991) American Psychologist, 46, 863-872.

Symposium on Emotion. January 1992 issue of Psychological Science .

Emotions, personality, and biochemistry

Good and Bad Humors: Biochemical Bases of Personality and Its Disorders. .(A general article) By Zuckerman, M. Psychological Science, Nov. 1995, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 325-332.

Behavioral consistency across situations? (Example: Delay of gratification in preschool, and as a predictor of adolescent behavior)

The development of children's knowledge of self-control strategies. Mischel, H.N. and Mischel, W. (1983) Child Development, 54, 603-619.

Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions. Shoda, Y., Mischel, W., and Peake, P. (1990) Developmental Psychology., Vol. 26, pp. 978-986.

*****Supposed to appear in April 1995- check exact reference

Mischel, W. & Shoda, Y. (April 1995) A cognitive-affective system theory of personality: Reconceptualizing the invariances in personality and the role of situations. Psychological Review.

Personality tests (Machiavellianism, Perceived Locus of Control).

The Machiavellis among us. Christie, R. (1970) Psychology Today. (November)

Strickland, B. (Jan. 1989).Internal External Control Expectancies. American Psychologist 44, 1-12.

Gender and culture as factors in socialization

Tannen, D. (1990) You just don't understand. Women and Men in Conversation. Ballantine Books. Oversimplified in order to be more easily read (and sold?), this book nevertheless mentions a great deal of interesting research about language-rela ted cultural differences in general (although gender differences are emphasized in the title).

The unconscious -- modern perspectives

June 1992 issue of American Psychologist contains section of 8 articles.

Social cognition and achievement motivation

Dweck, C.S. & Leggett, E.L. (1988) "A social-cognitive approach to personality and motivation" Psychological Review, 95, 256-273.

Intrinsic interest versus reward as motivation?

Detrimental effects of reward: Reality or myth? Eisenberger, R., and Cameron, J. (1996) American Psychologist, Vol 51, No. 11, 1153-1166.

•SOCIAL COGNITION AND INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCES: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (CLASSES 23-25)

Required reading : Chapters 13 and 14

(Used to say, 1993 and before, can skim stuff on self -- pp. 503- 513 -- but one of these chapters is only 30 pages and the other is 40, which isn't unusual, so...

p.10-21 of On being a Scientist. By the Committee on the Conduct of Science of the National Academy of Sciences.Wash. D.C: NAS Press. 1989. Skim rest.

In 1993, I had them skim the part of Ch. 14 on"self"whichis 503 middle to 514 top in this, the second edition. But this year, since Jim Shah is a student of Tory’s I left it in and was skipping booklet anyway.

Guest lecture: Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, Graduate Student, Dept. of Psychology

Cognitive Dissonance

Demo from movie: Social Animal .

*** Could add more about movie here or in next section

Group influence, conformity, group decision-making (and expected utility theory)

Stoner (1968) Risky and cautious shifts in group decisions: The influence of widely-held values. J. Exp. Soc. Psych., 4, 442-459.

Isenberg, D.J. (1986) Group polarization: A critical review and meta-analysis. J. Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 1141-1151.

Movie Demos from: Social Animal .

Psycholegal Research on Jury Damage Awards. By Edith Greene and Elizabeth F. Loftus. In Current Directions in Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1998, pp. 50-54
Compliance and obedience

Movie Demo: Obedience (Milgram's work on the strength of situational pressures)

Gleitman, H. (1995) Psychology. Fourth Edition. New York: Norton. p. 472-477.

Arendt, Hannah (1963). Eichman in Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil.

Cultural effects

The Pace of Life (1990). R. Levine. American Scientist. Sept/Oct 1992 issue. Vol. 78, pp. 450-459.

I should at least add a little description of what this is in title or in reference. Oh well, I guess the title is self-explanatory and I don't really cover this.

Considering human society as an example of a complex system

"The Great Asymetry" by Stephen Jay Gould. Science. Vol. 279, 6 Feb. 1998.

•HEALTH AND ILLNESS: ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY(CLASSES 25-27)

Required reading: Read Chap. 16. In Ch. 17 read from start to p. 657 and read p. 676 to end (skim the middle, p. 657-676). Review pp. 174-81 of Ch.5 (neurotransmission, drugs, and hormones).

Avoiding problems caused by mind-body dualism

Health, disease, and the mind-body problem: Linguistic parallelism. Graham, D.T. (1967) Psychosomatic Medicine, 29, 52-71.

pp. 354-357 in Lickey, M.E. & Gordon, B.(1991)Medicine and Mental Illness. NY: Freeman.

Specific attitudes and specific ("psychosomatic") diseases

Specific attitudes in initial interviews with patients having different "psychosomatic diseases. Graham,D.T., Lundy, R.M., Benjamin, L.S., Kabler, J.D., Lewis, W.C., Kunish, N.O., and Graham, F.K. (1962, 1995) Psychoso matic Medicine, Vol. XXIV, No. 3, pp. 257-266. Reprinted in Classics from Psychosomatic Medicine 1959-1979. Published in 1995 by the American Psychosomatic Society.

I think I may have an even more complete citation in new content file.

Graham, D.T.(1972) Psychosomatic medicine. In Handbook of psychophysiology. Eds. Greenfield, H.S. and Sternbach, P.A. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.

Type-A-ness and heart disease

Wright, Logan (1988) The Type A behavior pattern and coronary artery disease. American Psychologist, 43, 2-14.

Friedman, H.S., Hawley, P.H., Tucker, J.S. (April 1994) Personality, health, and longevity. Current Directions in Psychological Science, Vol. 3, #2, pp. 37-41.

Infectious diseases, Immunity

New Light on How Stress Erodes Health. N.Y. TImes, Dec. 15, 1992 by Daniel Coleman. (In Science Times section. p. C1 continued on C12)

Chronic social stress, affiliation, and cellular immune response in nonhuman primates. Cohen, S., Kaplan, J.R., Cunnick, J.E., Manuck, S.B., and Rabin, B.S. (1992) Psychological Science, 3, 301-304.

Stress and infectious diseases in humans. Cohen, S. and Williamson, G.M. (1991) Psychological Bulletin, 109, 5-24.

Maier, S.F., Watkins, L.R., and Fleshner, M. (1994) Psychoneuroimmunology. American Psychologist. Vol. 49, No. 12, pp. 1004-1017 (This is a review article)

Neural transmitters, drugs, the brain, etc.

Lickey, M.E. and Gordon, B. (1991) Medicine and Mental Illness. New York: Freeman.

Gorenstein, E.E. (1992) The Science of Mental Illness. Academic Press. New York

Autism and behavioral therapy

Behavioral Treatment of Autistic Children (Video demo- Lovaas’s work)

McEachin, J.J., Smith,T., Lovaas, O.I. (1993) Longterm outcome for children with autism who received early intensive behavioral treatment. Amer. J. on Mental Retardation, pp. 359-372.

From Mind To Molecule, Researchers Try to Unravel the Complexity of Autism. By D.J. Lewin. The Journal of NIH Research, Nov. 1995, Vol. 7, p. 44-48.

Prodigies (p. 188-242) and An Anthropolgist on Mars (p. 243-296) in An Anthropologist on Mars. By Oliver Sacks. 1995. Vintage.

Schizophrenia

Gorenstein, E.E. (1992) The Science of Mental Illness. Academic Press. New York

Walker, E., Downey, G., and Casp. A. (1991) Twin studies of psychopathology: Why do the concordance rates vary. Schizphrenia Research., 5, 211-221.

Downey, G., and Walker, E., (1989) Social cognition and adjustment in children at risk for psychopathology. Developmental Psychology, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 835-845.

Grace, A. A., Bunney, B.S., Moore, H., and Todd, C. L. (1997) Dopamine-cell depolarization block as a model for the therapeutic actions of antipsychotic drugs. Trends in Neurosciences Vol 20, No. 1, pp. 31-37.

Holzman, P.S., and Matthysse, S. (1990) The genetics of schizophrenia: A review. Psychological Science. Vol. 1, 279-286.

Depression

Learned Optimism. Selgiman, M.E.P. (1991) Knopf: New York

Prevention of Depressive Symptoms in Schoolchildren: Two-Year Follow-up. By Gillham, J.E., Reivich, K.J., Jaycox, L.H., and Seligman, M.E.P.. Psychological Science, Nov. 1995, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 343-351.

Prevention of depressive symptoms in school children. Jaycox, L.H., Reivich, K.J., Gillham, J., and Seligman, M.E.P. (1994) Behavior Research and Therapy, Vol. 32 (8) pp. 801-816.

Serotonin, Motor Activity and Depression-Related Disorders. By Barry Jacobs. American Scientist, Sept/Oct. 1994, Vol 82, 456-465.

The Destructiveness of Perfectionism. Implications for the Treatment of Depression. American Psychologist, Dec. 1995, Vol. 50, No. 12, pp 1003-1020.

Therapy outcomes

Seligman, M.E.P. (Dec. 1995) The effectiveness of psychotherapy. American Psychologist., Vol. 50, #12, pp. 965-974.

•SECOND EXAM (CLASS 28)

This second exam covers all material (required readings and lectures) since the first exam.