AP Psychology 2015-2016 Summer Assignment

http://allpsych.com/dictionary/l.html
www.nimh.nih.gov
http://www.scribd.com/doc/89025/AP-Psychology-Terminology
http://www.scribd.com/doc/89027/AP-Psychology-Important-Theorist-Names
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/perscontents.html
http://psychology.about.com/od/historyofpsychology/a/schoolsthought.htm
http://www.thepsychfiles.com (click on Major Topics)
www.socialpsychology.org/social-figures.htm
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/index.htm
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~psych200/unit1/1cont.htm
http://www.unmc.edu/physiology/Mann/mann19.html

The purpose of a summer assignment is to familiarize oneself with the subject. Play around with the above websites. You will find some more interesting, others more useful.

When focusing on the task items below, remember the primary goal is “to analyze.”

 Analyze: to examine methodically and in detail in order to discover meaning.
               :to examine critically so as to bring out the essential elements.
               :to examine carefully and in detail so as to identify key factors.

Essential Questions/Skills: Respond to one (1) item in each category (A, B, C, and D).  Document your sources(Where did you get your information)

A) History & Perspectives
What is psychology/what makes it a science?
How do psychology “schools of thought” complement each other?

B) Human Development
Are we products of nature or nurture?
Describe stage theories/theorists.
Are gender differences a product of genetics or society?

C) Personality & Social Processes
Describe/explain Freud’s view of personality structure. 
Analyze the contributions of Neo-Freudians. 
Analyze the contributions of the major Behaviorists.
Describe the humanistic perspective.
How has it influenced psychodynamic & behavior theories?
Describe/explain the ideas of the major Social, Cognitive, and Humanistic theorists.
Are personalities constant over time or do they change with each new experience?

D) Abnormal Psychology & Treatment
What is “normal” or “abnormal?”
Describe the aims of the DSK-IV.
Identify the criteria for judging whether behavior is psychologically disordered.
Describe the prevalence and symptoms of various disorders and the timing of their onset.
Describe the commonalities and differences among the psychotherapies.
Is there one type of treatment that works best for the most disorders? Explain.
Why do therapists use an eclectic approach when treating patients?
Identify the common forms of drug therapy.

2) Ten influential and/or controversial experiments: Analyze 3 of the following. What did they involve?  Why were they considered to be controversial? 

The ten influential and/or controversial experiments:
1. Skinner's box
2. Stanley Milgram's shock machine
3. David Rosenhan's infiltration of various mental institutions by feigning schizophrenia
4. Darley and Latane's helping behavior studies
5. Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance, where people who lied for $1 were more likely to believe the lie than if they lied for $20
6. Harry Harlow's monkeys
7. Bruce Alexander's rat park, where he studied addiction in rats inside a cage and in a rat park, a sort of rat paradise
8. Elizabeth Loftus' "lost in the mall" false memory experiment
9. Eric Kandel's sea slugs, where he searched for the mechanism by which we store a memory
10. Lobotomies and other psychosurgeries, following it from Moniz's first lobotomy, to its usage by Walter Freeman (who arguably gave them their bad reputation in the US), to its modern equivalents

Commentary 

Skinner’s Box & Rosenhan’s Being Sane in Insane Places
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=1947 (type in search) http://www.genderforum.org/issues/literature-and-medicine-ii/lauren-slaters-lying/
Re: Slater’s version of Rosenhan’s "On Being Sane in Insane Places," disputed.
And Commentary on the above dispute

http://www.snopes.com/science/skinner.asp
http://www.skeptically.org/skinner/id6.html
Re: Slater’s version of Skinner’s daughter growing up psychologically damaged refuted David Rosenhan- Being Sane in an Insane Places

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6bmZ8cVB4o
http://www.holah.karoo.net/rosenhanstudy.htm
Re: Background, aim, procedure, and result of the 1973 Study

Stanley Milgram’s shock machine
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2264 (Type in Search)
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2009/01/would_we_still_obey_the_first.php (type in search)
Re: Jerry Burger, Santa Clara University replication narrative
ABC podcast of Burger’s replication

http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2009/06/episode-97-stanley-milgram-obedience-study-finally-replicated/
http://www.experiment-resources.com/milgram-experiment-ethics.html
Re: Ethical critique (note additional experiments)

Darley & Lante- Bystander Apathy Effect
www.wadsworth.com/psychology_d/templates/student_resources/0155060678_rathus/ps/ps19.html
http://www.pineforge.com/newman4study/resources/latane1.htm
http://prevos.net/ola/helping_behaviour.pdf ! ! http://psychology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/cacioppo/jtcreprints/cpl86.pdf
Re: commentary concerning cf experiments of Bystander Effect In Helping Behavior

Leon Festinger- Cognitive Dissonance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=korGK0yGIDo Zimbardo’s lesson
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Festinger/
www.colorado.edu/communication/meta-discourses/Papers/App_Papers/Jean.htm (term paper)

Harlow’s Monkeys 
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Harry_Harlow
Re: maternal-deprivation and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys = cruel, even brutal, with some researchers citing them as factors in the rise of the animal liberation movement.

http://www.mrmcmed.org/mom.html
Re: Critique of maternal deprivation experiments on primates

http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2004/06/mcilwain.html
Re: topical, contextual critique


Bruce Alexander’s Rat Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhK-6jSN3x8
http://globalizationofaddiction.ca/articles-speeches/rat-park/148-addiction-the-view-from-rat-park.html
http://www.parl.gc.ca/Content/SEN/Committee/371/ille/presentation/alexender-e.htm
Re: The Myth of Drug-Induced Addiction


Elizabeth Loftus' "lost in the mall" false memory experiment
http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory-fms/a-brief-history-of-the-false-memory-research-of-elizabeth-loftus-2/
Re: a history of her experiment

http://eassurvey.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/elizabeth-loftus-critiques-of-her-research/
Re: critique/rebuttal

Eric Kandel's sea slugs
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/nobel20.html (note 3rd winner)
Re: neuroscience for kids site; an approachable discussion

http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/articles/2004/01/09/memories.php
Re: short journal review

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/25/science/25MEMO.html
Re: New York Times article