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| Review exercises are available at the textbook's web site. | The Situationist Blog |
| EXAM Information | Understanding Prejudice.org |
| Links to Helpful Studying & Writing Resources | Society for Personality and Social Psychology |
| Avoiding inappropriate paraphrasing (REQUIRED READING) | Social Psychology.org |
Tentative Reading/Assignment Schedule
Assignments and supplementary readings are due on the date listed. For textbook chapters, you should familiarize yourself (i.e., skim) the entire
chapter in preparation for the class unit, and carefully read the
chapter during the unit. It is important to keep up with readings, so
plan to have each chapter finished before we move on to the next
chapter. Check
often (weekly) for schedule revisions/updates/additions. Supplementary
class readings are available via Moodle. See the syllabus for instructions on how to access Moodle. The
file for each reading is a "PDF" file. If you would
like to download Acrobat, visit
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html.
Acrobat is a free download (though large) and should be on all campus
computers.
Please bring a copy of supplementary readings to class with you on the day we discuss them.
| Date | Topic | Readings | Assignments |
| OVERVIEW & METHODS | |||
| T 8/31 | Intro | Chapter 1 | |
| R 9/2 | Methodology Exercise |
Chapter 2 | Blog Report Topics: please turn in a piece of paper with 3 choices (in order of preference). You will be assigned to one topic. |
THE INDIVIDUAL IN THE SOCIAL WORLD |
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| T 9/7 | The Self |
Chapter 3 |
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| R 9/9 | " |
Chapter 2, Apply It! Exercise: "Recession Causes Increase in Teen Dating Violence" (Questions 5 & 6) (Carefully review & follow the Apply It Exercise instructions in the Course Syllabus; Turn in your work via Moodle.) |
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| T 9/14 | Self-Esteem |
Culture & Self Blog Reports (See syllabus for instructions; Turn in your work via Moodle.) (11 am) Dahlia W., Shana |
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| R 9/16 | " |
Leary (1999); and Solomon, Greenberg & Pyszczynski (2000) Reading Guide Questions: |
(11 am) Keri S., Kim Y. |
| T 9/21 | Attribution Theory |
Chapters 4 & 5 (You will be responsible for the material in Chapter 5, though we will not cover it in class) |
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| R 9/23 | Fundamental Attribution Error |
FAE Blog Reports (11 am) Maggie R., Cristina G. |
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| T 9/28 | Self-fulfilling Prophecy
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Snyder,
Tanke & Berscheid (1977) |
Chapter 3, Apply It! Exercises: Questions 3 & 4 (be sure to read both of the relevant links) SFP Blog Reports (11 am) Kimberly K. |
INFLUENCING OTHERS |
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| R 9/30 | Attitudes & Persuasion |
Chapter 6 & pp. 316-327 of Chapter 9 | |
| T 10/5 | Cognitive Dissonance
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| R 10/7 | " |
Cognitive Dissonance Blog Reports (11 am) Heather S., Genna W., Will K. |
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| T 10/12 | Catch up Day |
Apply It! Exercise: Watch: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-february-9-2009/bill-o-reilly-s-right-to-privacy Answer these questions: 1. Jon Stewart is suggesting Bill O’Reilly should be experiencing cognitive dissonance. Explain the source of that cognitive dissonance. 2. Assuming O’Reilly actually does feel the dissonance, explain one way he might be relieving it and, thus, allowing his television program to air the contradicting stories Jon Stewart pointed out. |
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| R 10/14 | Exam 1 |
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Fall Break |
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| R 10/21 | Conformity & Obedience |
Chapter 8 | Conformity Blog Reports (11 am) Erin W., Samantha F. |
| T 10/26 | " |
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| R 10/28 | " |
Sabini & Silver (1982) Hersh (2004) linked here: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/05/10/040510fa_fact |
Obedience Blog Reports (11 am) David K., Zach W. |
| SOCIAL RELATIONS | |||
| T 11/2 | Aggression | pp. 484-520 of Chapter 13 |
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R 11/4 |
Media Violence |
Aggression Blog Reports (11 am) Jen T., Stephen L. |
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| T 11/9 | Helping Behavior |
Watch these videos, thinking about the situational determinants of helping (about 20 minutes total): 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49YQhTLoGuA&feature=related |
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| R 11/11 | "
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Altruism Blog Reports (11 am) Michele T., Amy L. |
| T 11/16 | Social Power |
Chapter 12 and read this blog post. Also watch these 2 videos (about 20 minutes total): 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFO1b9I-u5Q |
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| R 11/18 | Implicit Prejudice |
After you've taken the assigned Implicit Association Tests, watch these videos, in this order (about 10 minutes total): 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmF8iIeOVEo&NR=1 |
Take the "Gender-Science" and the "Race" Implicit Associations Tests (you'll need about 20 minutes) at: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.html (Select "Demonstration" ; Note: cookies must be allowed in order to proceed with the test.) Optionally, you may also take one or both of the following IATs: http://humanoralien.com/ ; http://deadidentity.com/ |
| T 11/23 | Jigsaw Classroom |
Note: Eventually you will have to read all of these articles. For now, however, you should read and be prepared to answer the Reading Guide questions about the article that has been assigned to you. (Reading Guide)
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Stereotyping & Prejudice Blog Reports (11am) Amanda M., Matt F., Andrew B., Tory M. Becca R. |
| Thanksgiving Break | |||
| T 11/30 | Jigsaw continued & Stigma |
Skim all of the articles listed above. |
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| R 12/2 | Stigma continued |
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| T 12/7 | Social Dilemmas & Conflict Resolution |
pp. 521-531 of Chapter 13 |
Morality/Justice/Cooperation Blog Reports (11 am) Molly D., Joe M. |
| R 12/9 | EXAM 2 |
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