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Schedule

  • Course length: 16 weeks

Note: All reading assignments should be done in the online e-text or hard copy of the textbook. Unless noted as “recommended” or “optional,” all assignments are required.

Getting Started
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Before you begin your assignments, please complete the Academic Integrity Form.
  2. Optional: Complete the World Campus Canvas Orientation if you are new to Canvas or the World Campus. 
  3. Complete the Honorlock Practice Quiz (required but not graded).
  4. Watch the Getting Started lecture presentation. 
  5. Recommended: Watch the Making Things Memorable video. 
Unit 1: Introduction to Psychology
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 1 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 1 lecture presentation. 
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 1 core assignments
    :
    • Read and take notes on “The Story of Psychology” and Module 1, “What Is Psychology?”
    • Complete the History of Psychology video activity.
    • Read and take notes on “Thinking Critically with Psychological Science” and Module 2, “Research Strategies: How Psychologists Ask and Answer Questions.” 
    • Complete the How Would You Know If There Is a Hot Hand in Basketball? activity.
    • Complete the How Would You Know If There Is a Hot Hand in Basketball? activity.
    • Recommended: Complete the Research Methods video activity.
  4. Complete at least one Unit 1 Digging Deeper quiz.
  5. Watch the Unit 1 Penn State Connections video.
Unit 2: Nature and Nurture
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 2 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 2 lecture presentation
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 2 core assignments
    • Read and take notes on “Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity” and Module 10, “Behavior Genetics: Predicting Individual Differences.”
    • Complete the Behavioral Genetics video activity.
    • Complete the How Would You Know If Personality Runs in Our Genes? activity.
    • Read and take notes on Module 12, “Culture and Gender Diversity: Understanding Nature and Nurture” (up to, but not including, “Gender Development”).
  4. Complete at least two Unit 2 Digging Deeper assignments.
  5. Watch the Unit 2 Penn State Connections video.
Unit 3: Developmental Psychology
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 3 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 3 lecture presentation.
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 3 core assignments:
    1. Read and take notes on “Developing Through the Life Span” and Module 13, “Developmental Issues, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn.”
    2. Read and take notes on Module 14, “Infancy and Childhood.”
    3. Complete the Cognitive Development video activity.
    4. Complete the How Would You Know If Having Children Relates to Being Happier? activity.
  4. Complete at least two Unit 3 Digging Deeper assignments (at least one from Group A and one from Group B).
  5. Watch the Unit 3 Penn State Connections video.
Unit 4: Friendship, Love, and Emotion
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 4 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 4 lecture presentation.
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 4 core assignments:
    1. Read and take notes on Module 34, “Affiliation and Achievement.”
    2. Read and take notes on Module 43, “Prosocial Relations” (up to, but not including, the section on altruism).
    3. Read and take notes on “Emotions, Stress, and Health” and Module 35, “Introduction to Emotion.”
    4. Complete the What is Emotion? video activity.
  4. Complete at least one Unit 4 Digging Deeper assignment.
  5. Watch the Unit 4 Penn State Connections video.
Exam 1
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Review the Exam 1 Study Guide.
  2. Complete Exam 1.
Unit 5: Social Psychology
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 5 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 5 lecture presentation.
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 5 core assignments:
    1. Read and take notes on “Social Psychology” and Module 40, “Social Thinking.”
    2. Read and take notes on Module 41, “Social Influence.”
    3. Complete the Asch Conformity Study video activity.
  4. Complete at least one Unit 5 Digging Deeper assignment.
  5. Watch the Unit 5 Penn State Connections video.
Unit 6: Sensation and Perception
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 6 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 6 lecture presentation.
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 6 core assignments:
    1. Read and take notes on “Sensation and Perception” and Module 17, “Basic Concepts of Sensation and Perception.”
    2. Complete the Attention video activity.
    3. Read and take notes on Module 18, “Vision: Sensory and Perceptual Processing.”
    4. Complete the Vision: How We See video activity.
  4. Complete at least two Unit 6 Digging Deeper assignments.
  5. Watch the Unit 6 Penn State Connections video.
Unit 7: Learning
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 7 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 7 lecture presentation.
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 7 core assignments:
    1. Read and take notes on “Learning” and Module 20, “Basic Learning Concepts and Classical Conditioning.”
    2. Complete the Classical Conditioning: Pavlov and His Legacy video activity.
    3. Read and take notes on Module 21, “Operant Conditioning.”
    4. Complete the Operant Conditioning: Learned Behaviors video activity.
    5. Read and take notes on Module 22, “Biology, Cognition, and Learning.”
    6. Complete the How Would You Know If People Can Learn to Reduce Anxiety? activity.
  4. Complete at least one Unit 7 Digging Deeper assignment.
  5. Watch the Unit 7 Penn State Connections video.
Unit 8: Memory
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 8 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 8 lecture presentation.
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 8 core assignments:
    1. Read and take notes on “Memory” and Module 23, “Studying and Encoding Memories.”
    2. Complete the Models of Memory video activity.
    3. Read and take notes on Module 24, “Storing and Retrieving Memories.”
    4. Read and take notes on Module 25, “Forgetting, Memory Construction, and Improving Memory.”
    5. Complete the Human Factors in Wrongful Convictions video activity.
  4. There are no Digging Deeper assignments for this section.
  5. Watch the Unit 8 Penn State Connections video.
Exam 2
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Review the Exam 2 Study Guide.
  2. Complete Exam 2.
Unit 9: Sleep and Dreams
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 9 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 9 lecture presentation.
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 9 core assignments:
    1. Read and take notes on Module 8, “Sleep and Dreams.”
    2. Complete the How Would You Know If Sleep Deprivation Affects Academic Performance? activity.
  4. Complete at least one Unit 9 Digging Deeper assignment.
  5. Watch the Unit 9 Penn State Connections video.
Unit 10: Personality
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 10 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 10 lecture presentation.
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 10 core assignments:
    1. Read and take notes on “Personality” and Module 44, “Introduction to Personality and Psychodynamic Theories.”
    2. Read and take notes on Module 45, “Humanistic Theories and Trait Theories.”
    3. Complete the How Would You Know If Astrologers Can Describe People’s Personality? activity.
    4. Read and take notes on Module 46, “Social-Cognitive Theories and the Self.”
  4. Complete at least one Unit 10 Digging Deeper assignment.
  5. Watch the Unit 10 Penn State Connections video.
Unit 11: Psychological Disorders
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 11 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 11 lecture presentation.
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 11 core assignments:
    1. Read and take notes on “Psychological Disorders” and Module 47, “Introduction to Psychological Disorders.”
    2. Read and take notes on Module 48, “Anxiety-Related Disorders.”
    3. Read and take notes on Module 49, “Depressive Disorders and Bipolar Disorders.”
    4. Complete the Teen Depression and Brain Studies video activity.
  4. Complete at least two Unit 11 Digging Deeper assignments.
  5. Watch the Unit 11 Penn State Connections video.
Unit 12: Psychological Therapies
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Complete the Unit 12 class activity.
  2. Watch and take notes on the Unit 12 lecture presentation.
  3. Go to Achieve and complete the Unit 12 core assignments:
    1. Read and take notes on Module 53, “Introduction to Therapy and the Psychological Therapies.”
    2. Complete the Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies video activity.
    3. Read and take notes on Module 55, “The Biomedical Therapies and Preventing Psychological Disorders.”
    4. Complete the How Would You Know How Well Antidepressants Work? activity.
  4. Complete at least one Unit 12 Digging Deeper assignment.
  5. Watch the Unit 12 Penn State Connections video.
Exam 3
Assignments:

Complete the following assignments in the order listed below:

  1. Review the Exam 3 Study Guide.
  2. Complete Exam 3.
  3. Complete the SEEQ (non-graded). 

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