Course
Requirements

Copies of the text are on 2-hr reserve in the library. The department has used the same texts now for several years in a row, so you might also be able to get books from another student who has taken this course in the past. NOTE: There is a new edition of this text coming out this fall, but we are using the old (2004) edition for this semester!

In addition to the text, there are several readings that will be available on the electronic reserves list for this course. To find the readings, navigate to the library website and click on "course reserves" under the "Course Materials" heading on the left hand side of the page. Search under "Psychology" to find the readings for our class.

These readings are as follows:

Brescoll, V., & LaFrance, M. (2004). The correlates and consequences of newspaper reports of research on sex differences. Psychological Science, 15, 515-520.

Cadinu, M., Maass, A, Rosabianca, A., & Kiesner, J. (2005). Why do women
underperform under stereotype threat? Psychological Science, 16, 572-578.

Derks, B., Inzlicht, M., & Kang, S. (2008). The neuroscience of stigma and stereotype threat. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 11, 163-181.

Keppel, B. (2002). Kenneth B. Clark in the patterns of American culture. American Psychologist, 57, 29-37.

Krendl, A.C., Richeson, J.A., Kelley, W.M., & Heatherton, T.F., (2008). The negative consequences of threat: A functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation of the neural mechanisms underlying women's underperformance in math. Psychological Science, 19, 168-175.

Phelps, E. A., & Thomas, L. A. (2003). Race, behavior, and the brain: The role of
neuroimaging in understanding complex social behaviors. Political Psychology,
24, 747-758.

Richeson, J.A. & Trawalter, S. (2008). The threat of appearing prejudiced and race-biased attentional biases. Psychological Science, 19, 98-102.

Sangrigoli, S., Pallier, C., Argenti, A.-M., Ventureyra, V.A.G., & de Schonen, S. (2005). Reversibility of the other-race effect in face recognition during childhood. Psychological Science, 16, 440-444.

You are also expected to subscribe to the class listserv (psych202@wheatoncollege.edu) and to check your email account at least once a day for postings relevant to this class. Class announcements, study guides for quizzes, and news articles appropriate for this course will be posted to the list. Any news articles posted to the list can and will be used in exams and quizzes. You may also use this list to ask questions, form study groups, or post your own animal behavior comments and observations.

To subscribe to the list, click here. Leave the subject heading and body of your message blank. You should get a message back from the listserv (a listserv is a computer, by the way) that you must reply to in order to be subscribed. Follow the instructions in the message from the listserv, and you should have no trouble getting onto the list!

If you do not use your Wheaton email account as your primary email source (for example, if you use a gmail account or a comcast account instead), then you will have to email the Wheaton systems administrator (Brian Gibson) directly and ask to be subscribed to psych202@wheatoncollege.edu.

You will need access to a computer in order to check your email and get messages from the list. You will also need access to a computer in order to submit class assignments. All submitted writing assignments should be word-processed, spell-checked, and double-spaced, with adequate margins for comments. If you send me material to read as an attachment via email, I can only open MS Word documents. Your material must be in MS Word or MS Excel in order for me to open it.

You will also need a Blackboard account through Wheaton College. I will post Powerpoint slides from lecture and occassional additional documents on this site. Check the class listserv for updates on when new items are posted to the class Blackboard site. We will also use Blackboard to facilitate group work on other projects throughout the course of the semester, and to share data.

On some occassions, you may be asked to collect, summarize, and analyze data using MS Excel.

If my computer skills allow it, some quizzes or other tutorials may appear in the class website. You can also find lecture notes, assignment material, helpful hints for exams and assignments, and similar material here at the course website. So check back here often to see what is new!