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Psy.5370 Section 501 Course Syllabus
Learning, Motivation ,and Cognition
Instructor: Dr. Theron Stimmel
Office:250M UAC
Email ds03@txstate.edu
Office phone 5122453163 won’t take messages. p lease use email!
Office hours 1-2,after class online Please check if you need to see me in my office!
Goals of the Course
1. To read scientific articles and learn how they might be applied to solving a wide range of human problems.
2. To exam recent trends in the study of human motivation and explore how mainstream research in conditioning ,memory ,and cognitive psychology have contributed so much to our understanding of motivation.
3. To relate some new research on the brain to understanding why certain issues in changing behavior are complexly interrelated to the psychology of learning and motivation.
Grading procedures will be explained at the end of the class schedule. Since understanding mastery learning will be a goal of this course, you will have little need to study for the 3 quizzes in the course!!!
Online learning can be very rewarding but it does require more attention to detail on the part of the student. We will meet every class period via Zoom and sometimes move to TRACS. On quiz days,you will receive your quiz on assignments in TRACS and have 1 hour to submit it via TRACS. I will be sending all the written material ,including articles you will need .There is no textbook. My lectures fill that role. I often send you thoughts and reminders. I have learned that if something could be possibly misunderstood, it will be! Remember we meet every day at 2 or so on Zoom ,I will tell you how to get on our ZOOM via TRACS. Easy! Keep checking your email. There are 7 take-homes in this course,referred to as THs. There are 3 quizzes all of which you will submit via Assignments. We should have an intellectually rewarding time this 5 weeks.
Course Schedule
Date Topic Article last name of 1st author
June 1 Getting together Intro
June 2 Science trumps tradition Get TH2
June 3 The old Russian and his slobbering dogs! Hand in TH1 Berridge
Start work on TH2
June 4 There is more to Pavlov than you might think! Berridge, Navarette Start on operant conditioning
June 5 Really get into operant conditioning and it’s issues Eisenberger
Get TH3
June 8 Hand in TH2 after ckass and start social learning theory Bandura
June 9 Issues with social learning theory Beck, Golkar
Work on TH3
June 10 finish TH3,Hand in before quiz Review
June 11 Quiz on everything up to now Get TH4 Haeffel
June 12 Memory the essence of the mind intense lecture!
Be prepared to really go over Haeffel article Short term-memory
June 15 Begin working memory-encoding Mueller, Nairne
June 16 Forgetting and retention Start Gagne
June 17 Kinds of learning Gagne, Ashcraft
Get TH 5, Hand in TH4 before next class
June 18 Emotions and learning Ashcraft, Loftus
June 19 Autobiographical memory and the problem of “false memories”!
Hand in TH5 before quiz Shaw.Loftus
June 22 Quiz on THs 4 and 5 Weiner
Get TH6
June 23 Big views of motivation begin Weiner, Dweck and Leggett Cognitive dissonance, achievement motivation Weiner,Dweck
June 24, Attiributions theory and believes Dweck, Mueller, Haimovitz
June 25 Tie together TH6 get TH7
June 26 The central problem of self-regulation APrimer on habits
Stimmel. ,Wagner, Hand in TH6
June 29 Views of self-regulation Uziell, Job
June30 Teenage-a special time 2 articles by Casey
July 1 Ageing-lessons to be learned Carstensen
Handin TH7 before quiz
July 2 Quiz 3 Since all of the course is interrelated no need for covering earlier material on last exam THS 6 and 7 count as 40% of Quiz 3 so do a good job on them
Grading THs 20% of grade
Quiz 1 30% ,Quiz 2 20% ,Quiz 3 30% A-90% +b80-89% Below 80,C Cs almost never happen
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