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Psychology 1: Intro to Psychology
Syllabus
Instructor: Dr. Shannon Kroner
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Required Book: Psych101 by Paul Kleinman (Find it on Bookshop.org)
Week 1: What is Psychology? (pgs. 7-19)
Important names in Psychology: Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner
Week 2: What is Psychoanalysis? (pgs. 20-32)
Important names in Psychology: Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud
Week 3: Morality, Obedience and Individual Psychology
(pgs.33-47)
Important names in Psychology: Lawrence Kohlberg, Stanley
Milgram, Alfred Adler
Week 4: Basic Theories on Groups, The Stanford Prison
Experiment, The Power of Social Influence (pgs. 48-60)
Important names in Psychology: Philip Zimbardo, Solomon Asch
Week 5: Behaviorism, Inkblots, Visual Perception (pgs 61-79)
Important names in Psychology: John Watson, Hermann
Rorschach
Week 6: Gestalt Psychology, Cognitive Psychology (pgs 80-94)
Week 7: Cognitive Dissonance, Drive Reduction Theory (pgs.
95-101)
Week 8: Rhesus Monkey Experiment, Theory of Cognitive
Development, Social Learning Theory (pgs 102-114)
Important names in Psychology: Harry Harlow, Jean Piaget,
Albert Bandura
Week 9: Self-Actualization, The Human Potential, Hierarchy
of Needs
Important names in Psychology: Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow
Week 10: Theories of Intelligence, Intelligence Testing
