Students are required to read the following book:
Lauren Slater
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Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century 074756860x
This book is “psychologist Slater's account of 10 of the most influential-and controversial-experimental forays into the mind's inner workings…” |
The assignment for Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century are as follows.
On the first day of class, you will hand in 10 journal entries (word processed), one for each chapter. In the journal entries, you will write one paragraph for each chapter, in which you give a brief description of the experiment.
ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED BUT NOT REQUIRED READING
Gladwell, Malcolm
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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
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Haddon, Mark
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
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Keyes, Daniel
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Flowers for Algernon
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| Sacks, Oliver |
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat |
| Sapolsky, Robert M. |
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers |
| Schreiber, Flora Rheta |
Sybil |