Personality
PSY 3113
Professor: Dr. Travis Langley = Office: McBrien 301-F, 230-5222
T.A.: funkmaster_a@hotmail.com
Required textbook:
Theories of Personality, by= Schultz and Schultz.
OVERVIEW:
This course looks at personality, your characteristic pattern of behavior. The course examines the topic from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and explores such topics as personality developme= nt, gender roles, personality disorders, character types, and other stuff.
SCHEDULE:
UNIT 1 &nb= sp; EXAM: Wednesday, February 7 &nbs= p; &= nbsp; Chapters 1-3
UNIT 2 &nb= sp; EXAM: Wednesday, February 28 &nb= sp; Chapters 4-6, 8
option= al for bonus credit: chapter 7
UNIT 3 &nb= sp; EXAM: Monday, April 2 &nbs= p; &= nbsp; Chapters 9-12
&nbs= p; &= nbsp; &nbs= p; &= nbsp; &nbs= p; &= nbsp; &nbs= p; optional for bonus credit: chapter 13
UNIT 4 &nb= sp; EXAM: Monday, April 30 &nb= sp; = Chapter 14, personality disorders
option= al for bonus credit: chapter 16
FINAL EXAM: &nb= sp; Cumulative, plus chapter 15. Optional for bonus credit: chapter 17
Refer to spring schedule for time and = date.
Refer to official schedule for last day to drop with g= rade of W. After that, the professor will not assign a grade of WP to someone wh= o is failing.
EXAMS
Each unit will conclude with a 40-item multiple choice= exam covering lecture notes, assigned readings, and class discussion. Bring #2 pencils for every test. Erase errors completely or use correction fluid to cover incomplete erasures. Any answer marked wrong due to an incomplete era= sure is simply wrong. After all, if you know you can get credit by going up to a professor later and say, "Look, I didn't erase a couple of errors, and= it counted one of them wrong," that would not motivate you to be careful = and responsible in the first place. Making responsible work habits part of your PERSONALITY will benefit you in all areas of life. On every test, put your = name and ID# on the front of the answer sheet and the back of the test, or the professor will subtract a point
ONE test score will be dropped: either your low= est test score (even if it's the final), or one mis= sing test score. Although the cumulative final will have twice as many questions= , it will weigh the same as any other test. There will be NO makeup tests. There= 's no such thing as a perfectly fair makeup test, so that's why your professor simply drops a test instead.
GRADING SCALE=
Test questions range in difficulty to get an accurate = idea of exactly how much you know and understand about the course material. The scale on the 40+ point tests = is simply this:
A 35.1 -->
B 30.1 – 35.1
C 25.1 – 30.1
D 20.1 – 25.1
F <-- 20.0
Your professor reserves the right to subtract any numb= er of points from the grade of someone who disrupts class, or to assign a course grade of F to someone caught cheating. Keep track of your own grades. If you want to keep up with your grades, write down your numerical scores along the way, not the letter grade for each t= est.
The last question on every test will be "What els= e did you learn from the current course material that was not otherwise covered by this test?" The normal maximum credit for this is 3 points, although someone who writes a lot of extra material might earn 3.5 or 4.0. As a rule= of thumb, you get half a point per distinct fact provided in your answer. Do n= ot simply write a name or term. Tell what you learned about that name or term.= For example: Writing Julian Rotter = would earn no credit by itself. Writing that Rotter developed the idea of locus control would get you half a point. Defining locus of control would get you another half. Good examples could get another half. To earn full credit on = the bonus question, you really need to talk about multiple topics.
INTERNET DAYS
Lectures and tests will be = held in class on Mondays and Wednesdays. We will NOT meet in class on Fridays except for the first and last week of = class. Friday classes will officially be held online. (However, if for some reason= the Internet day has to be some other day of the week, then class will meet on the Fri= day of that week. Because we cannot have assignments on Restricted Days (“De= ad Days”), we will meet that Friday. Each week you will be given Internet-based assignments to be completed on Fridays, for which you will receive a grade. Your total for these assignments will be equal in value to= one test. Assignments MUST be received by their stated deadlines.
ATTENDANCE
The number one correlate wi= th poor grades in any class is poor class attendance. Missing class is therefore self-punishing because you miss important material. Copying someone else's notes simply can't convey the same understanding. If you aren't here when roll is taken, the reason does not matter, so please do not tell your professor why you were absent.