REQUIRED TEXTBOOK:
Bjorklund, D.F. (2012). Children's Thinking (5th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
OTHER RECOMMENDED BOOKS:
American Psychological Association (2009). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, D.C.: Author.
Kirkpatrick, L.A. & Feeney, B.C. (2006). A simple guide to SPSS for Windows, Version 14.0 (8th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Any supplemental readings will be made available to you on Sakai.
A NOTE ABOUT WRITING IN THIS COURSE:
This is a "writing intensive" course, as described on pages 10 and 11 of the 2012-2013 Pitzer College course catalogue. What this means is that you will be expected to have completed some written work almost every other week (in the aggregate). This does not mean you must produce new material each time; rather, you will be expected to improve drafts of previous work (because that, in fact, is how high-quality writing gets produced in the "real world"). Plan on submitting a first draft of the following three assignments to a fellow student AT LEAST one week before it is due in my hands:
- Research Project proposal
- Sex Differences lab
- Final Research paper
(The more time you give your peers to look over your work, the more they will be able to make constructive suggestions, and the more time you'll have to implement those suggestions). Details on our peer-review process will be forthcoming. For now, just be aware that in addition to writing, three times during the semester you will be called upon to evaluate the writing of your peers.