The comprehensive final exam will be worth 150 points towards the final grade. Some assignments will be group projects, some individual projects. Some assignments will be graded, some will be ungraded. Some assignments will be reviewed by peers, some will be reviewed by the instructor. Some assignments will be done in class, some outside of class.
All assignments are due on a specific date, as indicated when assigned.
One aim of this course is to help prepare students to be critical consumers of psychological findings. This objective will be accomplished by providing students with sufficient background to develop a frame of reference from which they can evaluate what they read. In addition, each student will prepare a critical analysis of several psychological studies. Chapter 1 in the student's text, Davis et al. Each student will choose a topic.