Course Schedule and Readings

Week 1 - Jan 06 & 8  - Introduction to History and the Philosophy of Science
   Benjafield J.G. (2015). A history of psychology.  Ch 1 (pp. 1-14) Ch 16 ( pp.432-440; 445-446)

Week 2 - Jan 13 & 15- . . . Introduction . . . History of Psychology & Worldviews
    Benjafield:Ch 2 (pp. 16-38); Ch 3 (pp.44-49)

Week 3 - Jan 20 & 22- Darwin, Evolution, Adaptation and Individual Differences
    Benjafield:  Ch 2 (pp. 39-41); Ch 3 (pp. 49-63; 68-74); Ch 4 (pp.95-103).

Week 4 – Jan 27 & 29 - Wundt, Consciousness and the Beginnings
    Benjafield:  Ch 3 (pp. 64-67); Ch 4 (pp. 77-95); Ch 5 (all) Ch 8 (pp.174-180) - - - [ Quiz ]

Week 5 - Feb 3 & 5 - Freud, the Unconscious and Psychoanalysis  
    Benjafield: : Ch 7 -(all)  

Week 6 - Feb 10 & 12  Canada & Common Sense
   Supplemental Reading:Tolman C.W. (1996). Opposition to the ideal system
   as leitmotif in nineteenth centuryAnglo-Canadian psychology. Canadian Psychology, (37), 137-144.

Week 7 - Feb 17 & 19 - Reading Break

Week 8 – Feb 24 & 26– America and Functionalism: The New World part II
    Benjafield:  Chapter 6 (all); Chapter 8 (pp. 180-186); Chapter 13 (pp. 329-336) - - [Midterm]

Week 9 - Mar 3 & 5 Applied Psychology in North America: The New World part III
   Benjafield:  Chapter 8 (pp. 187-198)

 Week 10 - Mar 10 & 12 - Rise of Behaviorism and Gestalt Psychology
   Benjafield:Ch 9 (pp. 208-226); Ch 10 (pp.238-256l); Ch 8 (pp. 198-204)

Week 11 - Mar 17 & 19 - Behaviourism & Logical Positivism in 20th Century Science
   Benjafield: Ch 11 (pp.272-290); Ch 12 (pp. 293-314)   

Week 12 - Mar 24 & 26 - Canadian Psychology: WWII and the aftermath - - [ Paper - Due]
   Benjafield: Ch 12 (pp. 312-325) 

Week 13 - Mar 31 & Apr 2 - Neo-Behaviorism and Social Constructionism
   Benjafield:  Ch 9 (pp. 227-235); Ch 13 (pp. 352-356); Ch 16 (pp. 441-447)

Week 14 - Apr 7 & 9- Explosion of Diversity, ... into the Future
   Benjafield: Ch 10 (pp 257-270); Ch 13 (pp 340-352); Ch 14 (all) Ch 16 (pp. 448-455).

Exam Period - Final Exam due Apr 14


Study Questions and
Key Concepts for Psychology 210