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Course Outline for PSYC 1013 (Introductory Psychology) Online Instructor: Dr. Biljana Stevanovski, Psychology, University of New Brunswick Email: [email protected] Phone: 506-458-7693 Course Description: A general survey of perspectives and methods in selected areas of psychology including learning, memory, cognitive and biological psychology. Students will be asked to participate in various learning and research activities. Some course credit may be earned by participation in these activities. Course Format: PSYC 1013 is an online course that has no meetings (e.g., discussion groups, online forums). You can pace yourself, as needed, to complete the course. It is recommended that you aim to study and complete a chapter every two weeks in order to complete the course before your course deadline. You have 6 months to complete the course, from the date that you are officially registered in the course. Note that this includes the completion of all requirements, including the final exam. As such, please make sure to leave enough time to schedule and write the final exam within your 6 month period. Course Textbook: Weiten, W., & McCann, D. (2015). Psychology: Themes and Variations (Fourth Canadian ed.). Toronto, ON: Nelson Education Ltd. The textbook comes bundled with a concept chart and access to online resources (MindTap). The course code for MindTap is: MTPP-7NPP-9CW0 Companion site for our textbook: http://www.cengage.com/cgi-wadsworth/ course_products_wp.pl? fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9780176706494&template=nelson I encourage you to use all of these components to engage in the material. Course Materials: The course includes 8 modules that correspond to the first 8 chapters of the Weiten and McCann textbook. For each module, students are required to: a) read a chapter from the textbook, b) review the accompanying lecture slides and information provided by the professor (all available on the Desire2Learn site), and c) write a quiz, which is also provided on Desire2Learn Quizzes: Each quiz is composed of 20 multiple choice questions and is worth 5% of the total grade. Thus, the 8 quizzes will be worth up to 40% of the final grade. No

proctor is needed for these quizzes, however, you are expected to write them without any assistance from others or from your study notes or textbook. Final Exam: The final exam is composed of 100 multiple choice questions that are drawn from all 8 chapter materials. It is worth 60% of the final grade and is required for all students. Note that the password-protected final exam is provided on Desire2Learn, but it requires the presence of an invigilator or proctor (who is appointed or approved by CEL) who will enter the password. Note: All module quizzes must be completed in order to receive permission to schedule and write the final exam. As such, make sure to allow for enough time to complete the final exam prior to your six month deadline. Evaluation: 8 Quizzes (one for each of Chapters 1 through 8) Final Exam (covers all of Chapters 1 through 8)

40% 60% 100% Research Participation (optional) – up to 5% added to your final grade

Bonus Credit Options: As part of this course, you are given the opportunity to participate in research activities to earn up to 5 bonus credits. Note that these are optional and that you are not required to complete these items to complete the course. This is an excellent way for you to earn marks as well as experience first-hand the type of research that you will read about in your Psychology textbooks. There are two options: psychology research participation and psychology research summary options. Details for both are given below. Up to 5 bonus points are available for your Psychology 1013 online course. You can do any combination of online research participation or research summaries, for a total of up to 5% towards your final grade. All bonus points must be submitted prior to writing the final exam. Psychology Research Participation Option: To earn these bonus credits, you can find online projects in which you can participate. Some Psychology departments maintain lists of projects that are available for online participation. These projects must have been approved by ethics committees, so please ensure that you are participating in a reputable and approved study. A comprehensive site that you can use is: http://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.html

If you are interested in participating in other studies, then you must obtain approval from your instructor prior to completing the study (i.e., I must ensure that the study has pedagogical merit and that it has received ethics approval from an institution prior to your participation).! In Introductory Psychology, you are given the opportunity to participate in Psychology experiments for additional course credit. In some cases, the course instructor is either the investigator or the supervisor of a student-investigator. You can choose to participate (or not) in studies that are associated with your course instructor; your course instructor will not know who participates or withdraws from these experiments. Therefore, there is no additional benefit or cost to you of participating in one of these studies (as compared to participating in another researcher's study). Each project that you choose for research participation should preferably represent a different textbook chapter from the chapters covered in this course (i.e., chapters 1 through 8). If you do an online experiment from one of these sites, then you must submit the following in order to obtain your bonus credits: a) a screenshot (image) of the description page from the study, as well as the URL for the study b) a screenshot (image) of the receipt of study completion (e.g., the Thank you for your participation page or debriefing letter) c) a very brief description of the study’s purpose and method (just a couple of lines; e.g., “The study investigated the impact of advertising on memory. I viewed advertisements and then completed a memory test in which I recalled various aspects of those ads.”) d) indicate the amount of time that you spent on this study If you are not sure how to generate a screenshot of your display, then please visit the following page: Windows http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/take-screencapture-print-screen#take-screen-capture-print-screen=windows-8 Mac http://www.imore.com/how-take-screenshot-mac-os-x Participation is credited as follows: 1 hour of participation = 1 bonus credit, 30 minutes or less = .5 bonus credit.

Psychology Research Summary Option: If you are not interested in research participation, you have the option to earn bonus credits by reading a Psychology journal article and writing a research summary of that article. Each summary is worth one bonus credit and is graded on a pass-fail basis. For your summary, you should read an empirical research article (i.e., it should have a method, results, and discussion section; magazine articles, web summaries, and wikipedia articles are not journal articles). One suggested journal that has high-quality research and shorter articles is Psychological Science. To ensure that you have chosen a suitable article, you should contact your professor with information regarding any articles that come a sources other than the one suggested. This research article should be related to a topic that was covered in one of the modules for this course. For your summary, a) summarize the research covered in the article and b) discuss how the research is related to some topic covered in one of your modules. Cheating: The University of New Brunswick places a high value on academic integrity and has a policy on plagiarism, cheating and other academic offences. Plagiarism includes: !!1. quoting verbatim or almost verbatim from any source, including all electronic sources, without acknowledgement; !!2. adopting someone else's line of thought, argument, arrangement, or supporting evidence without acknowledgement; !!3. submitting someone else's work, in whatever form without!acknowledgement; 4. knowingly representing as one's own work any idea of another. Examples of other academic offences include: cheating on exams, tests, assignments or reports; impersonating somebody at a test or exam; obtaining an exam, test or other course materials through theft, collusion, purchase or other improper manner; submitting course work that is identical or substantially similar to work that has been submitted for another course; and more as set out in the academic regulations found in the Undergraduate Calendar. Penalties for plagiarism and other academic offences range from a minimum of F (zero) on the assignment, exam or test to a maximum of suspension or expulsion from the University, plus a notation of the academic offence on the student's transcript. For more information, please see the Undergraduate Calendar, Section B, Regulation VII.A, or visit http://nocheating.unb.ca. It is the student's responsibility to know the regulations.

Electronic Communication Guidelines:! Using email is not equivalent to writing a formal letter, but it is useful to adopt a similar approach.!That is, please write to your professors in a professional manner. • In the subject line of the communication, indicate the course (PSYC 1013 online) and the topic (e.g., Chapter 1) of your email. • Begin the communication with a salutation such as “Dear Dr. XXX.” End the communication with your FIRST AND LAST NAME, so that the instructor can properly address the reply to your email. • Write using complete sentences that are in proper English. Specifically, you should use capital letters to begin the sentence and a period to end the sentence. Avoid IM speak (e.g., I want 2 C my exam) and use proper spelling and punctuation.! • RE-READ the message before sending to check for spelling errors, poor grammar, unclear sentences, or other organizational errors that happened in the first draft. • Finally, please check the course outline (e.g., to learn the chapters to be covered on an exam) and the FAQ before emailing the instructor.! Advice on Succeeding in this Class: I strongly encourage you to use the electronic resources (MindTap) that come bundled with the textbook. You can complete the practice exercises throughout and at the end of each chapter in the textbook and also use the resource website that accompanies the textbook. You should utilize all of these resources, in addition to taking advantage of recorded lectures, especially if you are having difficulty with the course material. Also, you can contact the course instructor with questions, should you have any. Generally, research suggests that repeatedly reading chapters or notes does not lead to the best recall at a later time. Instead, try to use the information in some meaningful way (e.g., try to connect it to your everyday life) or try to articulate the material to others. This will enable you to fully understand the material, which will lead to better recall. Finally, keep in mind that studying requires both time and effort. You will need to spend a considerable amount of time preparing for quizzes and final exams, and you will need to effectively use that time. Even when you think that you know the information well enough, research suggests that overlearning usually leads to even better recall....