This textbook is a great source for you to use for review if you are planning on taking the Graduate Record Exam in psychology and feel a need to review for the Advanced Psychology Test.
Even the Rat was White
This book will be used as the basis for a guest lecture on multicultural issues in psychology. It is highly recommended.
If you plan on applying to a graduate program in psychology you should obtain a copy of the American Psychological Association's book on graduate programs.
This capping course explores the historical development of psychology as a science. The content of the course necessarily begins with the rise of modern science and universities as a background for the various schools of thought, systems, and theories that have contributed to psychology both from within and without the discipline. This course provides a perspective on contemporary psychology through reviewing the questions that psychology has confronted over the years and its interrelationships with other disciplines.
The faculty of Marist College mandated the capping course to prompt reflection on the relationship between a major field's methods and content with broader ethical and humanistic concerns. The course must encourage students to situate their specialized studies within the broader context and readings must reflect its interdisciplinary and integrative intent. The course provides a means for reviewing and applying perspectives introduced in the foundation courses and reinforced in the distribution studies. Liberal study has a clear relation to the goal of professional preparation. The capping course should refer to significant themes of human consciousness and value orientations developed in the core foundation courses.
This is a great site to visit about Isaac Newton.
The midterm examination will assess your understanding of the development of the science of psychology within the context of the rise of modern science. The format of this exam will be short essay. Your answers should be specific, detailed and precise. On this examination your performance will be ranked against that of your peers--make sure that you understand what is expected of you for this examination. In order for you to do well on this exam you must use higher order reasoning and see interconnections between disciplines.
The final exam will be a multiple choice exam resembling the GRE in Psychology. This exam will assess what you have learned as a psychology major here at Marist College. It would be wise for you to look back over your course notes from all of your psychology classes in preparation for this exam. Your faculty are inclined to make this into an exit examination--meaning that your bachelor's degree will depend on an acceptable level of performance on this type of exam. This exam is completely objective and covers material you should have already learned over the past four years of study here at Marist in your major field of psychology. You can review for this examination by reviewing any introductory psychology text and by going back over your course notes from over the years (hopefully you kept them.) I strongly encourage you to work in study groups to prepare for these examinations. If there is no speaker scheduled for the time allocated for the seminar, you should use that time to prepare for these examinations. Preparing for this examination will help you get ready for the GRE.
To earn an A in this course you must do well on both exams! Performance on these exams is what distinguishes between students who receive an A in this course and those who do not, so if your goal is to earn an A in this course, it is your responsibility to begin preparing for examinations from the first week of this semester.
To assist you gaining an historical perspective for this course, we are going to watch several films during this semester. As you view them you should be taking notes on the technologies and attitudes toward science that are shown. These films should help you with your reaction papers and your reflections about them should be considered in the journal exercise (see below).
Frankenstein is the story of a doctor who used his training to try and overcome death. Dr. Jekyll and M Hyde is about another doctor who devises a means for splitting his personality into his good and evil sides. Each book presents a view of what shapes the self (nature or nurture). Using specific examples from each work, compare and contrast these views and decide which one you believe is most important in the formation of our character and personality. Do you believe you are primarily the result of your genetics inheritance, a 'chip off the old block' or are primarily the result of the way you were raised? What makes you the way you are? What forms your personality and character? Try and find specific examples as you read through the books.
B.F. Skinner's Walden II is the story of a behaviorally engineered utopian society. Skinner was one of the most influential psycholgists who ever lived. How have his ideas shaped our world? Where do you see conditioning used in our society? Brave New World is another utopian vision that incorporates genetic engineering. Is this becoming a part of our social fabric? What do you believe you may live to see in your lifetime?
During the course of this semester you are required to keep a journal of critical reflections on material from the course. On April 29th you are to hand in at least 10 of these journal entries prepared as a typed manuscript. It will not be possible for you to do well on this assignment unless you make it a habit to reflect he content of this course after every class. You might find that this journal contains ideas that will help you to do well in preparing for your midterm examination. If you habitually skip classes you will not be able to complete this assigment since you won't have 10 class meetings to discuss. These entries must include your thoughts on the films viewed in class.
One of the requirements for every capping course at Marist College is a major paper. The paper you will be writing for this class must: (1) provide a critical summary of your orientation within the discipline of psychology, and (2) provide an explicit plan of action for your future professional plans after graduation from Marist.
In the first half of your paper (3-4 pages), critically discuss which system or specialty in psychology you have adopted. This part of the paper should outline the empirical data, landmark studies, and theories which undergird the orientation you have adopted in psychology. This half of the paper should integrate coherent stands on at least some of the critical questions raised during the semester. Write this portion of the paper as if you were writing an introduction to a scientific paper - be specific, detailed and precise in your work.
The second half of your paper (2-3 pages) should describe your future professional plans. This part of the paper should outline a definite course of action you will pursue for achieving your professional goals. The plan should be based on researching possibilities, a reasonable appraisal of the options available for you and your personal inclinations. A clear and obvious relationship should exist between the two parts of this paper.
This paper must be technically correct in every respect and demonstrate a good measure of thoughtful effort on your part. If you need assistance editing or proof reading your paper for grammatical or spelling errors, it is your job to make these arrangements. I will deduct from your grade for nonstandard spelling, grammar and poor style. This is the final paper of your academic career--it should reflect the very best of your abilities. The manuscript should conform to American Psychological Association guidelines for manuscripts. You must hand in two copies of this paper--one will be archived by the Psychology Department.
This paper will be reviewed and evaluated by your peers in the course. Peer review is an essentialpart of the advancement of scienced. For the rest of your professional career you will be writing for your peers. Your peers will determine whether your papers is excellent, good, in need of revisions, or ought to be rejected. On April 15th you are required to bring 4 copies of your paper to class. One paper will be given to me and the other three will be distributed to your classmates for review. You will be taking home papers by three other students. Using the criteria for this course, you will review these papers, making comments on the manuscrips for the author. On April 19th you are to bring the papers you have peer reviewed back to class and give them to the author of the paper. Students have until April 26th to revise their papers. They should bring the manuscripts with peer reviewers comments and four copies of their revised paper back to class with them. Peer reviewers will get back the copy of the manuscript they made comments on as well as the author's revised version. Peer reviewers will have until May 3rd to evaluate the revised paper. They will assign it an evaluation of 'excellent' = A, "good" = B, "in need of revision" = C or "reject" = D. I will collect manuscripts with the peer reviewers comments as well as the final paper. You final grade on this assignment will be based on the evaluation of your peer reviewers and also on the quality of your work as a peer reviewer. Critically evaluate each other's work against the standards established for this final paper. Is it technically correct in every respect? does it conform to APA standards? does it fulfill the objectives set forth for the assignment? How well you complete your peer review influences your grade in this course - so help you classmates. If the peer reviewer are conscientious, everyone should obtain an A on this paper.
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Final grades in this course will be awarded based on a 1000 point grading scale. This criterion-referenced grading system makes it possible for everyone to earn a high mark in their capping class--but it also makes it possible for everyone to fail The total number of points earned during the semester determines the final letter grade you will be assigned at the end of the semester. Midterm grades are necessarily calculated as a percentage of the points earned as of that point in time. Take the time to read the Marist College grading policy so that you will understand the distinctions between letter grades at this institution.
Exam I 200 points Exam II 200 points Reaction Paper I 100 points Reaction Paper II 100 points Reaction Paper III 100 points Journal 100 points Term Paper 200 points
940 - 1000 points A 910 - 939 A - 880- 909 B + 840 - 879 B 810 - 839 B - 780 - 809 C + 740 - 779 C 710 - 739 C - 640 - 709 D 0 - 639 F
Do you know who these individuals were? Make a timeline of the individuals on this list who lived after 1640. On this timeline you should note some of the significant events that were taking place in history during their lives (for example, the Pilgrims landing, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WWI, WWII etc.) Try and select a few historical events that you can easily recall as a framework for this timeline.
Aristotle, Boyle, Galileo, Newton, Royal Society, Baldwin, Descartes, Piaget, Locke, Erikson, Berkeley, May, Hume, Maslow, Kant, Rogers, Darwin, Chomsky, Newton, Sperry, Fechner, Helmholtz, Galton, Spencer, Wundt, Ebbinghuas, Wm.James, Freud, Jung, Titchener, Dewey, Pavlov, Watson, Lashley, Skinner, Wertheimer, Kohler, Koffka, Lewin, Fisher, Spearman, Burt, Thurstone, Guthrie, Hull, Tolman, Thorndike, Luria, Hebb, Bandura, G.S. Hall (Please Note: this list is not exhaustive).
This capping course provides an opportunity to review and apply perspectives introduced in the foundation courses. The foundation course in philosophy provided "ways of understanding one's relationship with the world." The framework of these "modes of consciousness" (mythological, religious, scientific, and philosophical) are to help students become more aware of the cultural influences that shape their own understanding of themselves, their world, and how much value judgments are influenced by historical experience. The value-consciousness theme was further developed in the history course taken by all students at this institution.
Students in this capping course should demonstrate, both through their written products and by their classroom participation, a grasp on how their own value judgments are influenced both by the times in which we live and by the historical events which have shaped our present era.
The ethics courses taken in the junior year is designed to make students aware of "value assumptions of our Judaeo-Christian and secular humanistic traditions." The ethics course also exposed students to new ethical demands prompted by our scientific-technological culture.
Students in this capping course should demonstrate, both through their written products and by their classroom participation, an understanding of the value assumptions underlying the Judeao-Christian and secular humanistic traditions as these relate to ethical questions in psychology and related to scientific and technological advances.
Marist College strives for academic excellence, a concept which includes mastery of a body of knowledge.
After completing the course work required for the psychology major our students should be able to demonstrate knowledge of a core body of knowledge identified by their faculty. Students in this section of the capping course must perform at an acceptable level on objective multiple choice exam.
The curriculum for the psychology major at Marist is a highly integrated blend of the theoretical and applied aspects of the discipline.
The final paper for the capping course should reflect the student has adopted a theoretical orientation within the discipline and has a plan for applying it to professional goals.