Text:
Gleitman, Gross, and Reisberg. Psychology
You will need a clicker for this class. If you do not own one, they can be purchased from the Coop.
You do not need to bring the textbook to class, but you do need to bring the clicker to class.
There is a website available with the textbook that contains many features which you will find useful in
learning the material for this class. It has chapter reviews, quizzes and exercises that will enable you to
check your knowledge. No password is required:
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/psych/psychology8/
Attendance: Attendance is required for this class. Much of the material that is covered in lecture is not in
the textbook, and will be tested on the examinations. If you do miss a class, then you are responsible for
finding out about class announcements. Missing an announcement because you were not in class to hear it
is not an acceptable excuse for failing to fulfill your obligations.
Experiment Requirement: The Psychology Department has a requirement that students in Psychology
301 either participate in a certain number of psychology experiments or write a paper. No course credit is
given for either the experiments or the paper. However, you must complete this requirement in order to
receive a grade in this class. In order to be eligible for many of the experiments, you must complete on-line
pre-testing. The details about this requirement are contained in your green handout. If you have lost this
handout, or added the class late and did not receive it, you can get another one from the Undergraduate
Psychology Office (Seay 2.216). You can also find out about this requirement by going to the location in
the Psychology Department WebSite that describes this requirement. This link will also allow you to go to
the location for signing up for studies on-line, for doing pre-testing, or for learning about the paper that can
be done instead of doing the experiments:
http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/undergrad/courses/info/pretesting.html
Exams: There will be three kinds of testing used in this class: hour-exams, an optional final exam, and
daily quiz questions.
Three hour-exams will be given, all during regular class times. Each hour-exam will cover only the
material since the previous exam. An optional final exam will be given. This exam will be cumulative. It
will be given on the scheduled date and time for the final examination for this class. The grade on the
optional final can be used to replace the grade for any one of the hour-exams. A student who is satisfied
with his or her grades on the hour-exams does not need to take the final exam. Daily quiz questions will be
asked about the lecture material, and answered using clickers, at some point during each class.
Course Grades: Each of the hour exams will contribute 30% to your final grade. The average of the daily
quiz questions will contribute 10% to your final course grade. Final course grades will be determined by a
weighted average of the number of points earned on the exams and quizzes.
Final course grades, will be assigned on the following basis: A 92-100, A- 90-91, B+ 88-89, B 82-87, B-
80-81, C+ 78-79, C 72-77, C- 70-71, D+ 68-69, D 62-67, D- 60-61, F 0-59
Please note: (1) Grades will NOT be rounded up. (2) No extra credit is available in this course. (3) Only
performance, not effort, influences your final grade. (4) You must complete the Psychology Department
research requirement in order to receive credit for this class.