PSYC 1106
Labs for Introductory
Psychology I
September thru December 2011
LAB ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Check here regularly for important information regarding labs and special office hours.
Psyc1106 for the fall of 2011 is now finished. Final marks will be available on WebAdvisor in the coming days, following final approval by the Dean's office. Ken and Stephanie will be unavailable until classes begin in January. Relevant information for Psyc1107 can be found on its webpages.
Term papers that were not picked up on December 16th will be made available in January.
Do not lose your term paper after you get it back, as you will need it for the Psyc1107.
Lab material for Psyc1106 will remain posted below for students to reference as needed over the winter term.
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All submissions must be made in person
to Ken or Steph by the deadlines. Early submissions will gladly
be accepted. Anything put under (or in) office doors or
in mail boxes will be discarded – thus resulting in a
grade of zero (0) on that assignment or the term paper! Email
submissions will be deleted. For further details, see the
handouts provided below, and the Intro Lab power point.
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Textbook Alternative -- for a less expensive, electronic version of the same textbook available in the bookstore, just click below. See also How to Cut the Cost of Textbooks.
Psychology:
Frontiers and Applications, 4th Canadian
Edition
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For those who wish to buy Connect access separate from the textbook (e.g. those who buy a used book, or via CourseSmart), please call McGraw-Hill Ryerson's Customer Service number: 1-800-565-5758. Note that an electronic copy of the textbook is included with Connect access. Connect provides sample test questions, and other media to supplement the information in the textbook.
When emailing the instructors, always use stephanh@nipissingu.ca or ken@stange.com and include in the email subject-line "Psyc1106" or "Intro Psych" else your mail is likely to be thrown away as spam.
Lab Schedule and Policies
Students are required to attend labs as well as
lectures. They must attend the lab section for
which they are registered, on the dates indicated on the lab
schedule.
Labs meet approximately every other week; please see the schedule
below for details.
Psyc 1106 (Fall 2011) Lab Schedule:
For those in Mon/Wed Lecture section
For those in the Tues/Thurs Lecture
section
Questions regarding the labs should be directed to Stephanie Hevenor. Email: stephanh@nipissingu.ca
Here are the Lab Policies and the First Lab Safety sheet. Read these handouts carefully. The former explains what will happen if you miss lab or quiz, as well as the consequences and requirements for several situations; the latter explains the safety rules for the lab. If you missed the first lab, please print off and sign the safety page -- submit it to Stephanie as soon as possible.
LAB UNITS
To receive a copy of the Lab Assignments in class, you must have purchased the "Psych1106 Lab Assignment Tickets" from Print Plus. The cost is $7.75 in cash or student card account. The instructor will sign the appropriate ticket when you are given a lab assignment. Please purchase these tickets before the second lab in the schedule.
Each lab assignment is due no later than the beginning of your next scheduled lab (i.e. 2 weeks after conducting the assignment).
Lab Assignments will not be posted here. If you missed a lab or
forgot your tickets, you must see the instructor, with your Lab
Tickets to get a copy. Do not delay as they are due at your next
scheduled lab.
Presentations will be posted below just prior to the commencement
of that lab cycle. Please do not watch linked videos until
after the corresponding lab.
Introduction
Powerpoint Presentation (ppt file)
Lab Unit 01: Barnum Psi and
Psychological Testing
Powerpoint Presentation (ppt file)
Skeptoid: The Myers-Briggs Personality Test
The Interactive Personality Test
World's
Quickest Personality Test
Lab Unit 02: Colour Vision and
Introduction to Descriptive Statistics
Powerpoint Presentation (ppt file)
Vanishing Head Illusion (a.k.a. the blind spot)
Blue Man Group Rods and Cones from Venetian (hat tip to Ryan L.)Lab Unit 03: Maze Learning and
Introduction to Variability
Powerpoint Presentation (ppt file)
Lab Unit 04: Reaction Time and Introduction
to Normal Distributions
Powerpoint Presentation (ppt file)
Lab Unit 05: Parapsychology and
Probability Theory
Powerpoint Presentation (ppt file)
INFORMATION ON QUIZZES
The quizzes are each worth 5% of your final grade (grand total of
20%). Each quiz consists of 10 multiple choice questions drawn
from the following sources:
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See your lab schedule for the date your lab section will be writing the quiz. See the lab policies for procedures to follow if you miss the quiz.
Here are some tips for writing multiple-choice tests.
INFORMATION ON TERM PAPER
This is everything about the term paper, including explanations, expectations, regulations, due dates and grading procedures. It is worth 10% of your final mark.
Mandatory Deadlines for Term Paper
- Library Session: see your lab schedule (above)
- Term paper: Monday,
October 31st
Handouts and Information about Term Paper
- General
Guidelines For Writing A Psychology Term Paper
- More Advice on Writing The Paper
- Sample Title Page
- Sample Reference Page
- Link To APA Style Web Site
- APA 6th Edition Format video -- an Introduction
- Link To Very Useful Grammar Web Site
- The Wikipedia Problem
- The The Impotence of Proofreading by Taylor Mali (may be offensive to bad spellers)
- Worst
typo ever?
- Speak with Conviction by Taylor Mali (Def Poetry)
Term papers will be available for pick up during
Stephanie's office hours on Friday, December 16th (see
above). If not picked up then, they'll be available again
in January at the first lecture of Psyc1107.
Interesting Links and Quotes
The High Cost of Ignoring Scientific Facts
Why digging up primary sources is important?
The
Beautiful
Mind -- Slide Show from New York Times
Five
Commonly
Repeated Words to Hunt Down in Your Writing
Important Advice for First Year Students
Symphony of Science: A Wave of Reason
The
Brain
that Changes Itself (hat tip to Curtis C.)
Four reasons why you choke under pressure, and some practical advice.
The Feynman
Variations (BBC Discovery podcast)
Saving Money with Used Laptops and UberStudent
If You Open
Your Mind too Much...
60 Second Mind (a Scientific American Podcast)
Be a Geek and a Nerd: Jim Kakalios at Convocation 2009
The World's Quickest Personality Test
How to read articles about health and healthcare (PDF)
Neuroscience Rap -- Synaptic Cleft
Keeping some perspective in the world! Thank you Louis CK!
The James Randi Educational Foundation
Michael Shermer's TEDTalk "Why People Belief Strange Things"
Arthur Benjamin does "Mathemagic"
The Reality CheckRadio Free Thinker
100 Ways to Use Your iPod to Learn and Study Better
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?
The Inner Life of the Cell by Harvard Unversity & XVIVO -- this is one of the most beautiful videos ever created.
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.” - Robert Green Ingersoll
“Every library is an arsenal” - Robert Green Ingersoll
Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things. -- Randy Pausch (Last Lecture; Time Management Lecture)
Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil! -- T-shirt from http://www.instantattitudes.com
Relativity is to Physics as Evolution is to Biology. -- Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -- Immanuel Kant
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, "hmm.... that's funny...." -- Isaac Asimov
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk? -- Albert Einstein.
All the best,
Stephanie Hevenor
