Psy 361 History & Systems in Psychology Fall Quarter 2002 MWF 12:00-1:00
Instructor: Dr. George F. Michel
Office Hours: MWF 1:00-2:30
Office: 507 Bryne
Telephone: 325-4246
E-Mail: gmichel@condor.depaul.edu
Text: Schultz & Schultz: A History of Modern Psychology (7th Ed.) New York: Harcourt/Brace
Course Format: Each day I will lecture on the assigned topic and allow about 15-20 minutes for your questions and discussion of weekly topic questions. I depend upon you for letting me know what parts of the text and/or lectures need clarification. Therefore, the first day for which a chapter reading assignment is scheduled, there will be a 10 minute quiz composed of multiple choice questions about that week's topic.
Grading: Your grade will be based upon your contribution to class discussion, your written homework assignments, and your performance on the weekly (Monday) quizzes and a final examination. Homework assignments will be given for each week (see enclosed page). The homework is due on the Monday of each week.
Date Topic Assignment
9/11-13
Introduction
Ch 1
9/16-20
Philosophical Influences
Ch 2
9/23-27
Physiological Influences
Ch 3
9/30-10/4
Psychology Becomes a Discipline
Ch 4, 5
10/7-11
Functionalism
Ch 6, 7
10/14-18
Applied Psychology
Ch 8
10/21-25
Behaviorism
Ch 9, 10
10/28-11/1
Neobehaviorism & Gestalt Psychol. Ch
11, 12
11/4-8
Psychoanalysis
Ch 13, 14
11/1-18
Humanism & Cognitive Psychol.
Ch 15
11/26 (Tuesday) 11:45-2:00 FINAL EXAM
Homework Assignments: Each assignment is due on Monday of each week. Each week, you will write a two page (about 700-800 words) report of what you learned from your readings and lecture during the previous week. This report is not a brief summary of what was discussed or read during the previous week but rather an account of those ideas, notions, or bits of information encountered in the readings or discussion with which you previously were unfamiliar or unaware. When writing this paper, first describe exactly the information of which you were unaware or unfamiliar and then describe how it has changed your understanding of Psychology. To help you with this task, each week has a set of issues (see below) that you can address in your report. Please keep a copy of your homework for your own records and use.
Week 2: When writing about what you learned consider how contextual and
political influences contribute toward understanding
human psychology.
Week 3: When writing about what you learned consider how notions of mechanism and determinism affected the history of psychology.
Week 4: When writing about what you learned consider how the 19th-C German university
system affected psychology.
Can you relate the German University system to DePaul University's College of Liberal Arts
&
Sciences and the psychology department?
Week 5: When writing about what you learned describe Wundt's goals for the new
science of psychology and
relate
them to Titchener's notions about the similarity of psychology to
the other natural sciences?
Week 6: When writing about what you learned consider Galton's
influence on contemporary psychology.
Also consider some ways in which functionalism expanded the field and/or practice of
psychology.
Week 7: When writing about what you learned consider discuss how functionalism and
pragmatism in America affected
the
development of psychological testing, Industrial/Organization Psychology, and Clinical
Psychology.
Week 8: When writing about what you learned considera Thorndike's law of effect
and Pavlov's
law of
reinforcement and discuss why America was ripe for an "outbreak of psychology".
Week 9: When writing about what you learned consider the points of agreement and
disagreement
between
neobehaviorists' systems and Watson's behaviorism and the controversy between Koehler's "insight"
learning and
Thorndike's Law
of Effect.
Week 10: When writing about what you learned consider the initial response to
Freud's
theory of the seduction
trauma and to the related controversies that surfaced on the 1980s.