PSY 202A —
Introduction to Psychology, Part 2
Psychology is about your experience with the world. Your
desires, motivations, your influence on others, memory,
dreams, reactions, fear, lust, your childhood, language,
personality, and your mental health — these are all topics
we’ll explore in some detail in your introductory
psychology course. Of course, since this is an introductory
survey of psychology, the topics will have to be covered in
broad stroke. If you study well in this course, you’ll
learn a lot about how and why you behave the way you do,
and about the behavior of others toward you.
Catalog
Description: The second term of a two-term sequence
in introductory psychology, covering emotion, motivation,
intelligence, personality theory, health psychology,
abnormal psychology, therapies, and social psychology.
Course taught from a sociocultural approach which assumes
that gender, culture, and ethnicity are essential to
understanding behavior, thought, and emotion. Meets
cultural diversity requirements for Associate Degree.
Required
textbooks: Lefton, L. A. & Brannon, L. (2006).
Psychology. 9th ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon
Publishers. ISBN 0-205-47500-0
Course
Downloads: To download a syllabus, course calendars,
handouts, or other documents, click here.
Textbook
Companion Web Site: The textbook publisher has a web
site for the textbook with learning objectives, web
resources, practice tests, and other resources. Here's the
link for that site: Companion Website for Psychology, Ninth edition
MyPsychLab
Web Site: If your textbook came bundled with
MyPsychLab, you can log into that web site using the
following link: MyPsychLab (CourseCompass) Web
Site
Weblog:
To see my weblog, which includes interesting information
about psychology I gather in my daily Internet travels,
point your browser to: http://danaleighton.edublogs.org
Podcast:
I podcast my lectures for this class. The
podcast includes lecture audio, and the slides from my
presentation. To see more details, click here.
If you have iTunes installed, use the following link to
subscribe:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=200199659
For information on viewing the slides in the Artwork
Viewer, see:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301462
To download iTunes, go to:
http://www.apple.com/itunes