EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, FALL 2001

This page provides materials and information for the Fall 2001 course on Experimental Psychology. Classes meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 2:50 in Penn 401.   Labs meet on either Tuesday or Thursday from 3:00 to 6:00 pm. Most labs meet in rooms B-23 in the basement of Armitage Hall, except as noted on the Schedule of Lab Activities.

* * * *  January  1999 Posting of Research Presentations * * * * *

Presentations for some of the Research Projects for the Fall 1998 semester are available at the following site:

                Presentations and Papers for Fall 1998 Experimental Research Projects

50:830:381 Experimental Psychology - the Course

Course Description
Course Outline/Lecture Notes
Schedule for Projects
Guidelines for Evaluation of Projects
Schedule for Exams

50:830:380 Experimental Psychology - the Lab Sessions

Schedule of Lab Activities
Guidelines for Laboratory Reports

Current Events and Publications of Interest

The following commentary and articles about alternative medicine come from the New England Journal of Medicine, and is relevant to our discussion of science as a way of knowing.  Check out any of the following:

http://www.nejm.org/content/1998/0339/0012/0839.asp#tref-1

http://www.nejm.org/content/1998/0339/0012/0846.asp

http://www.nejm.org/content/1998/0339/0012/0847a.asp

http://www.nejm.org/content/1998/0339/0012/0855.asp

The following article on placebo effects is from The Scientist and raises some interesting questions use of a placebo control

                    http://www.the-scientist.library.upenn.edu/yr1998/sept/bunk_p1_980914.html

 

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