Date                                   Topic                                             Assignment

9/10-12                               Introduction                                          Ch 1
9/15-19                           Philosophical Influences                       Ch 2
9/22-26                           Physiological Influences                       Ch 3
9/29-10/3                           Psychology Becomes a Discipline        Ch 4, 5
10/6-10                             Functionalism                                         Ch 6, 7
10/13-17                           Applied Psychology                                Ch 8
10/20-24                         Behaviorism                                            Ch 9, 10
10/27-31                         Neobehaviorism & Gestalt Psychol.      Ch 11, 12
11/3-7                              Psychoanalysis & Humanism                    Ch 13, 14
11/10-17                           Contemporary Developments.             Ch 15
 

11/25 (Tuesday) 11:45-2:00          FINAL EXAM

Homework Assignments: Each assignment is due on Monday of each week. Each week, you will write a 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 and 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.