NCKU Moodle V1(Minor): 心理系(Psychology)

Text Description: E. Bruce Goldstein's SENSATION AND PERCEPTION has helped a myriad of students understand the ties between how we sense the world and how the body interprets these senses. A key strength of this text has always been the ability to illustrate concepts through examples and visuals. Dr. Goldstein walks students through an intriguing journey of the senses with both clarity and thoroughness, combining his extensive classroom experience and the most innovative research to create a visual, colorful text unparalleled in the field. Complemented by nearly 500 illustrations and photographs, the Eighth Edition has been updated throughout to reflect the latest research, and sharpened to enhance readability based in part on feedback from 2,000 student users. The accompanying VIRTUAL LAB media exercises (available on CD-ROM or online) offer a wide array of animations and examples designed to stimulate understanding of difficult concepts.

Course Description: A survey of theories and historical and contemporary research in how the auditory, visual, gustatory, olfactory, kinesthetic, and touch senses acquire information and how psychological, anatomical, physiological, and environmental factors help us perceive the world.

Scores:

(a) Quizzes During the ppt of each lecture, we will have random quizzes throughout. Therefore, you will need to attend the course, get your IRS (infrared response system) before class starts, and use this IRS （按按按）for response, in order to get your responses recorded. Your test results will comprise 50% of your final grade, so do show up in each lecture to get this important 50%.

Extra warning: if you get caught pressing the IRS for others, both of your scores for the whole semester will be zero-ed（被發現幫別人按鍵作答者，兩者學期分數皆以零分計算）. And if you forget to turn in the IRS after exiting the course, we will also call your cell (so you have to fill out the cell phone number and email address, in case we need to reach you). If you make the IRS kit damaged or lost, you have to pay $2000 NTD for re-purchasing the item. So please beware of the consequence.

(b) Midterm report (25%) We will have each student participate the famous contrast sensitivity experiment, which requires about 1 hours to finish the 7x7 (probably divided by 2 halves: 25 + 24) combinations of spatial and temporal frequencies. Each student will do according to the assigned time slots to finish the exp, get the results, and plot individual and, if can be done in time, group results together.

(c)Final report(25%) For the final report, we will not split into groups (number of students per group depending on the size of the class), but everybody focuses on the famous Muller-Lyer illusion, first introduce the phenomenon of interest, and then report all the possible explanations you can find, for this illusion. According to some report, there are up to 13 explanations for the Muller-Lyer illusion. We want everybody to find out all the possible explanations, share in the online forum, and turn in individual report at the end of the semester.

(d) Optional field trip report (5-10%) Extra credit can be earned by writing a no-more-than-10-page report of the field trip to the Chi-Mei Museum toward the end of the semester (strongly encouraged to go, though not necessarily to write the report). If, near the end of the semester, you find your scores are in the danger zone (50-59), please definitely join the trip, and write an impressive report to let me give you the impressive grade. Grades will depend on the quality of the content, the comprehensiveness, and insightfulness, among others.

Class Etiquette: If you have a pager or a cell phone, make sure that it is set to vibrate prior to entering the classroom…if it rings during class, I will get to answer it! And if you plan to leave early, please sit at the back to minimize affecting others. And please add Yun-Yun’s warning: bring those bottles/juices/food bags with you when you leave the room (instead of leaving it under your seat).

Course Schedule (Tentative):

Dates	Reading	Topic	Notes
2/22/2011	None	Syllabus overview; how to get the textbook, course website, etc
3/1	Chapter 1	Introduction to Perception.	Class 3: Introduction on the CSF exp
3/8	Chapter 2	Introduction to the Physiology of Perception.	Class 3: Introduction on how to analyze the CSF exp results
3/15	Chapter 3	Introduction to Vision.	Class 3: Mach band and other illusions
3/22	Chapter 4	The Visual Cortex and Beyond.
3/29	Chapter 5	Perceiving Objects and Scenes.
4/12	Chapter 6	Visual Attention.	4/5 spring recess
4/19	Chapter 7	Taking Action.	Midterm report due
4/26	Chapter 8	Perceiving Motion.
5/3	Chapter 9	Perceiving Color.
5/10	Chapter 10	Perceiving Depth and Size.
5/17	Chapter 11	Sound, the Auditory System, and Pitch Perception.
5/24	Chapter 12	Sound Localization and the Auditory Scene.	Class 3: guest lecture by Dr. Kueiju Lin
5/31	Chapter 13	Speech Perception.	5/29 Sun field trip to Chi-Mei Museum
6/7	Chapter 14	The Cutaneous Senses.
6/14	Chapter 15	The Chemical Senses.	Guest lecture from 祐明協會
6/21	Chapter 16	Perceptual Development.	Final paper due

教師: 龔俊嘉

992_心理學概論（二） INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY(2)

Syllabus for Introduction of Psychology (II), 2011 Spring semester

Time: Wed 10:10-11:25am, Fri 8:45-10am

Location: Social Science building 2F, 80201

Instructor: Chun-Chia Kung, Ph.D. (龔俊嘉),

Email: chunkung@mail.ncku.edu.tw

Co-instructors: Prof. Hu （胡中凡教授, Chap 11）, and Prof. Chou （周麗芳教授, Chap 12）.

Phone: (06) 2757575 #56508

Office hours: Tue/Wed 2-3pm, and by appointment

Teaching Assistant: 林梵

Email: fanvan6@gmail.com

Office hours: by email appointment.

Textbook: Psychological Science: Mind, Brain, and Behavior (3^rdedition, 2009) by Gazzaniga, Halpern, and Heatherton

Text Description: During the past decade, unprecedented advances in neuroscience have revolutionized the field of psychology, posing exciting new questions and reinvigorating classic lines of inquiry. In Psychological Science: Mind, Brain, and Behavior, brain scientist Michael Gazzaniga, former president of the APA Diane F. Halpern, and social and personality psychologist Todd Heatherton integrate the latest findings in cognitive, social, developmental, personality, and clinical psychology in a text perfectly pitched to the undergraduate student. With coverage of cutting-edge research, an exciting interdisciplinary approach, and a talented author team,Psychological Science: Mind, Brain, and Behavior captures the dynamism and energy of contemporary psychology.

Course Description: Psychological Science gives students an enticing overview of contemporary psychological research. It develops psychological literacy by presenting the material in a way that is directly related to their lives. It shows students how culture and gender can affect the way they view the world. And it asks them to consider the difficult new ethical dilemmas stemming from advances in psychological research. Throughout the text, real world psychology icons point out especially relevant examples, case studies important areas of applied research, and even potential career fields. Examples include how to deal with pain, whether childhood memories can be trusted, how to get better sleep, and how to maintain a long-term committed relationship.

Scores:

(a) Tests There will be 3 exams during the fall semester. The dates of these tests are noted in the Course Schedule included below. Each test will be worth 100 points, and comprise 20% of your final grade. Each test will consist of 50 multiple-choice questions (2 points each). The tests will cover each section of the course independently, except the last exam, which will be cumulative. All test questions will come from lectures and readings in the textbook. Therefore, you MUST read the textbook in order to do the test well.

(b) Quizzes Depending on the speed and the progress of content, we will have random quizzes during each course (and sometimes even at the beginning of each class). Therefore, you will need to attend the course, get your IRS (infrared response system) before the class starts, and use this IRS （按按按）for response, in order to get your responses recorded and collected. Your test results will comprise 40% of your final grade, so do show up in each lecture to get this important 40%.

(c) Research participation Every student enrolled in Psychology 101 is required to take part in psychological research currently conducted in the Institute of Cognitive Sciences. Through the doodle online booking system (you can even create a free user account at http://www.doodle.com), participants will receive one extra point (to a maximum of 5 points) of the final grade for each experimental session.

(d) Research summary Extra credit can be earned by writing a 5~10-page abstract of (at least) two articles from current (published in 2009 or 2010) APA journals, chiefly from Trends In Cognitive Sciences (TICS) and Psychological Science. Students who do well on this will be given some extra final grade. If, near the end of the semester, you find your scores are in the danger zone (50-59), please seriously consider writing one or two papers. Examples of past example of full (5) points is given in the moodle forum.

You might notice that our total grades, when adding up, will exceed 100 points. This is primarily because in the past, there were students who desperately needed those extra points to be over 60 (or sometimes not even enough), while some others exceeded 100 (if adding everything).

Academic Integrity Academic integrity is one of the fundamental principles of a university community. Our university expects the highest standards of academic honesty from all students. Violations of academic integrity include the following: (1) peeking other’s answer during the exam, (2) unauthorized assistance on others’ exam, (3) plagiarism, and (4) any other serious violation of academic integrity as established by the instructor.
If your academic integrity is not maintained on a test or the final report, you will automatically receive a grade of zero for that test or report, and you will be reported to your departmental office in accordance with NCKU academic integrity policy. Penalties can be severe. So please respect the dictum: “Honesty is the best policy”.

Course Schedule:

Dates	Readings	Topic	Notes
2/23	Chap 8	For new people: How to get the textbook, course website (moodle), how to use the IRS, etc. For everyone: we will get to the rest of chap 8	Remember your number for IRS and for the exams
2/25, 3/2	Chapter 8	Thinking and Intelligence
3/4, 3/9, 3/11, 3/16	Chapter 9	Motivation and Emotion
3/18, 3/23, 3/25	Chapter 10	Health and Well-being
3/30 (Wed)		First exam	4/4-8 spring recess
4/1, 4/13, 4/15, 4/20, 4/22	Chapter 11	Human Development	4/1 exam 1 discussion; taught by Prof. Hu
4/27, 4/29, 5/4, 5/6	Chapter 12	Social Psychology	Taught by Prof. Chou
5/11, 5/13, 5/18, 5/20	Chapter 13	Personality
5/25 (Wed)		Second exam
5/27, 6/1, 6/3, 6/8	Chapter 14	Disorders of Mind and Body	6/6 dragon festival)
6/10, 6/15, 6/17, 6/22	Chapter 15	Treating Disorders of Mind and Body
6/24 (Fri)		Final exam	7/1 summary paper (if necessary) due

教師: 龔俊嘉