Psych 301
If you are confused about an assignment, you could do any of the following EXCEPT:
Ask any PRO Guide or the receptionist in the psychology office for help
Planning your courses and timely progress toward your degree requires that you: (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
develop a plan that respects prerequisites as well as other commitments on your time plan your college coursework for every semester, all the way to graduation obtain the exact requirements for earning your psychology degree at CSULB
PSY 301 is a course that:
is created for psychology majors provides information for getting the most out of your undergrad education offers lots of extra credit uses the resources in the Psychology Resource Office (PSY 206) for some assignments
For most BeachBoard quizzes (all except the GRE quizzes and the final exam):
it is OK to refer to course materials while answering questions. you may retake the quizzes as many times as you want during the time the quizzes are available. all questions are objectively scored by BeachBoard. it is possible to lose work if you save your work but do NOT submit it before the due date/time.
In 2013, the APA developed and revised very explicit guidelines about the nature of academic work for the undergraduate psychology major. Some of these 10 guidelines are: (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
knowledge base in psychology communication skills professional development ethical and social responsibility in a diverse world scientific inquiry and critical thinking
The Psychology Student association (PSA) and Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society: (check all that apply)
meet together every other week look good on vitas and resumes for applying to graduate
If you want prompt (within 48 hours) feedback to a question submitted via email, you should send it:
monday morning- thursday noon
when looking for research opportunities, you should focus on asking tenured or tenure-track faculty members
True
if you were looking for opportunities for research experience, where could you look
- faculty research areas section -in psych resource office (PRO) -by asking faculty you've taken classes with
12 units 16 units 18 units 28 units 120 units
-Grade Averaging -Grade forgiveness -units allowed to withdraw -units allowed to repeat -needed to graduate with a BA
to graduate from CSULB, you need
-at least 120 total units -to complete upper division Capstone courses -at least a 2.0 in all four GPAs (overall, CSULB, major and upper division major GPA) -to complete all major requirements -to complete all lower division GE courses or have your GE certification
you can drop by the psych resource office (PRO) in room psych 206 for
-ques about psych department resources -grad school psych resources -help finding a job with a BA -psy 301 help -course syllabi
PSY 241- Psychobiology is required for:
-taking PSY 331, 332, 333 and all the other Group 1 psychology courses -psychology major requirements for graduation
1. Acacdemic advising for psych majors... 2. General psychology related questions... 3. Where to file to graduate
1. ATLAS 2.PRO-psych resource office 3. Enrollment services
Students at CSULB are limited to ____ units of repeating.
28
Assignments that are NOT graded by BeachBoard (for example, paper hard copy assignments due to the Black Box) will be graded:
3 - 4 weeks after the due date and a news announcement will be posted when points are available
Learning research (Wagner, Schober, & Spiel, 2008) has found that students had the best academic performance working on a variety of tasks in discrete (separate) ____ intervals.
30 minute
a 35 point quiz has___ questions
35
How much time should you plan on spending on 301 work each week?
6-8 hrs per week
A student named Sarah Alexander who has a question for the instructors should use which of the subject headers on her email?
Alexander, Sarah- question
As a student, it is useful for you to have "test-wiseness" - namely, the ability to use features of a test to improve your scores. Some common test-wise strategies are which of the following? (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
Always look over the exam before starting to develop a plan for working through all items. Be alert for key words in questions (e.g., except, not, all, but). Recognize patterns on a specific professor's test (e.g., "none of the above" is never correct). Eliminate options you are sure are incorrect by physically removing them from consideration.
One of the following statements about the services that PRO Guides provide to PSY 301 students is not true. Identify the false statement.
Any PRO Guide will be able to help you with all of the assignments, because all PRO Guides have completed PSY 301 and the course does not change from semester to semester.
Which sources could you use to find out what the prerequisites for psychology courses are? (check all that apply)
CSULB catalog your MyCSULB account the Psychology Major Handbook on the Psychology Major & Minor Checksheets
Where should you click to find the 301 required assignments? (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
Click on Content then scroll down to Assignments Clicking on the 301 Course Home and then finding the bookmark to Assignments
Research shows that adopting an internal or external locus of control has measurable consequences. Which of the following statements best describes what we know from that research?
College students with an external locus of control experience greater stress and higher rates of substance abuse, while students with an internal locus of control experience greater academic achievement.
Currently, the Chair of the psychology department is:
Dr. Dave Whitney
All departments handle prerequisites differently. In the psychology department, you can take a psychology course without the prerequisites.
False
At CSULB, you can take PSY 100, 110, and 220 all in the same semester.
False
Late work is accepted in psy 301
False
Research shows there is strong positive correlation between hours spent studying and grades earned (i.e., studying longer results in better grades).
False
Some assignments have minimum score requirements for particular grades. For instance, you must earn 195 on the major project to get an A in PSY 301. (THESE FIRST TWO STATEMENTS ARE TRUE.) Given those facts, is it true or false that, if you do not meet one of the minimum grade requirements, you can apply extra credit points to the grade of that specific assignment?
False
Students can send email through BeachBoard in PSY 301
False
The first step for organizing a literature review paper is to begin to identify and locate potential sources of information.
False
When submitting more than one assignment to the Black Box at the same time (such as Assignments 15 and 16), it is okay to staple both assignments together.
False
Most of the follow are TRUE about organizing literature review papers. Which one is NOT true?
It is a common experience that students struggle with the small number of sources that are available.
The amount of material students are assigned to read in their courses dramatically increases in college. Which of the following are important techniques for boosting reading comprehension? (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
Link the topics you are reading to knowledge you already possess Examine major topics to be covered (e.g., a chapter outline) before reading Generate a list of questions about the topics that you want to cover Quiz yourself about the major topics after you finish reading
If you plan on going to Graduate School in Psychology, you should plan on taking: (check all that apply)
PSY 310 Intermediate Statistics, 411 Experimental Design & Analysis, and 412 Multivariate Statistics PSY 314 Assessment and/or 315 Testing PSY 499 (Independent Study credit doing research with a faculty member)
You can submit an assignment to the Black Box at any date or time when PRO is open, as long as it is before the due date and time. For example, you could submit an assignment one, two, three (or more) days before the assignment's due date. (Assignments become available 3 weeks before they are due).
True
Because employers value writing skills highly, being able to write well can really set you ahead of the competition when it's time to apply for jobs. Writing is highly valued in the undergraduate psychology major, so this is the time to polish your skills. Three of the following are suggested steps for enhancing your success in adjusting to the writing demands of academic work in psychology. Which one is NOT?
Psychology as a discipline believes that practice makes perfect, and undergraduates are required to write a great deal so that they will eventually produce excellent papers on their first attempt that need no revision.
Which of the following best represents appropriate and professional viewpoints regarding the research and applied areas of psychology
Research and applied areas of psychology are intertwined, and it is unwise to separate the two.
College assignments usually require extensive writing. There are several strategies that help you to be successful across many varieties of writing assignments. What are those successful strategies? (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
Start early, because good writing requires time. Draft your written assignment and revise it repeatedly. Break large written assignments into independent stages.
Being a successful student requires you to appreciate which of the following (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)?
That everyone at CSULB wants you to succeed You might find it takes more effort to make friends here than at other (smaller) schools That you have to work more independently on your studies than you might have before That you have to be more self-motivated than ever before
Which group of psychology courses are open to Psychology majors only? (Meaning you must be declared as a psychology major to take these courses)
The 400 level courses
With decreased time spent in the class, professors are less available than your teachers were in high school, but professors form very strong mentoring relationships with outstanding students who show interest in working with them on their research or teaching
True
Why is it necessary to earn a minimum number of points on the project and the final exam to earn an A or B or C in the course, even if the total points accumulated are more than needed for that letter grade? Check all that apply. (All correct answers must be selected to receive credit for this question.)
The instructors feel the project is one of the most important assignments in the course. There is more control over who has contributed to (and completed) the project and the final exam than there is for many of the quizzes. The final is a better reflection of what the student has retained than are individual quizzes that can be completed by guessing and repeating the quiz until the desired points are obtained.
You should post your PSY 301 Assignment Schedule somewhere you can see it every day.
True
All courses take at a Community or Junior College are considered lower division.
True
All of the following are places to find Volunteer opportunities: at PRO (in the Career Resource Room), at SLD (Student Life and Development), and at ASI (Associated Students, Inc.).
True
Almost every college student at some point procrastinates, and over half of them engage in systematic procrastination that leads to academic problems
True
At CSULB, a grade of D is considered a passing grade. However, the Psychology Department requires you to have a grade of C or better in PSY 100, 110, and 220 for admission to the major.
True
Because all psychologists are trained in how to design research, gather data, and analyze results, research-based careers occur in every subfield of the discipline, including clinical and counseling psychology.
True
Experimental psychologists' research skills are general enough to be applied to a variety of topics.
True
If you are declared as a psychology "pre-major", you will have to declare a "real" major by 60 units.
True
It is necessary to earn at least 135 points on the major project in order to get a C in the class, even if you have enough overall points to get a C (or better) grade.
True
Psi Chi is the honor society in psychology
True
The College of Liberal Arts Advising Center (ATLAS) is in PH1 Room 104. ATLAS is open Monday-Friday, and you can drop in or make an appointment to see them about Psychology major requirements, declaring the psychology major, GE requirements, units, GPAs, or other majors and minors in the College of Liberal Arts. ATLAS does all the academic advising for psychology students.
True
The psychology department has over 1,500 psychology majors/minors
True
Which of the following are TRUE regarding the submission of work to the BeachBoard Dropbox? (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
You must submit your Dropbox work as a Word document with .doc or .docx file type ONLY. If your Dropbox file for the major project is not formatted as a .doc or .docx file, you will get a D or F grade in the PSY 301 course. The Course Procedures document explains the steps for checking that your Dropbox file can be read by Turnitin.
Gaining experience outside of the classroom provides many benefits including: (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
a new perspective about possible career paths greater maturity regarding your academic and career goals knowledge and skills that cannot be developed through in-class coursework
College professors rely heavily on ______ as the primary organizing element of a course.
a syllabus
One reason college campuses are great places to be is because they are loaded with services designed to help students succeed, available mostly for free or for a nominal fee. Check them out at CSULB, and use them to your advantage!! Just to name a few, campuses provide students with services for: (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
academic advising career development counseling disability support tutoring writing assistance
The best way to find internships and other out-of-class experiences is to:
actively seek them out on your own
You must file a request to graduate (using the form found online at the enrollment services website):
after 90 units and before the enrollment services deadline for graduation terms.
The final exam will be given
all of the above
Research has repeatedly surveyed psychology undergraduates and faculty regarding their expectations about what psychology majors should learn (Gaither & Butler, 2005; McGovern & Hawks, 1986). Although there is much overlap in the views of undergraduates and faculty, students and faculty disagree strongly in their expectation about:
applied skills like therapy - students expect this as a core part of the undergraduate degree while faculty do not
In college, organizational skills are essential because assignments
are usually more labor intensive and you have less time to complete them
30 units out of your 120 total units needed must be taken in Residency, this means:
at least 30 out of your 120 units must be taken at CSULB
A study investigating long-term effects of stress on the body would most likely be conducted by a __________ researcher.
biopsychological
Questions or comments for the instructors regarding PSY 301 MUST be sent to:
Assignments to be submitted to the Black Box in the Psychology Resource Office (PRO - in room PSY 206D) are due:
by 3pm of the due date
One of the most helpful strategies you can undertake to ensure your success in and progression through the psychology major is to:
carefully plan how you will go about completing your degree requirements
Students who gravitate to psychology believing it to be a relatively easy route to a bachelor's degree often:
caught off guard by the academic rigor of the major
To receive an A in the course, you need to:
complete this Course Procedures Quiz with a score of 30 or better earn at least 210 of 300 possible points on the final exam complete all sections and subsections of the major project earn at least 195 points on the major project submit the academic/career planning assignment
This document is a graph depicting median weekly salaries and rates of unemployment across persons of various education levels (Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014). A college education should be valuable to you in many ways, but certainly one practical value of it can be measured in terms of financial gain. The 2014 graph shows that, as compared to a high school graduate, a college graduate with a bachelor's degree:
earns, on average, $433 more per week and is about half as likely to be unemployed
Academic success in college is largely based on your ability to learn new information and master new skills. Research in cognitive psychology has taught us that learning is maximized when the information to be learned is: (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
ehearsed and reviewed repeatedly over time reduced to meaningful and manageable units actively processed
Developmental psychologists view development from a ______ perspective.
global
After the due date/time, you can only review quizzes you had taken before the due date. You review past quizzes by:
going to the quiz on the Quizzes tab on BeachBoard and clicking on Submissions.
Undergraduate degree programs in psychology cover a broad scope of the field by ensuring all majors learn all of the following EXCEPT:
how to provide basic counseling skills to help others with their problems
Indicate which of the following situations are appropriate to bring to the course assistants. You should visit a course assistant . . . . . (Check all that apply.) (All answers must be correct to receive credit.)
if you need clarification about the meaning of the instructions for an assignment if you feel overwhelmed and want someone to help you set up a plan to manage your time
When performing literature searches, results of searches are best examined:
in chronological order, with most recent first
There are many different Extra Credit assignments available during the semester. Each student may earn:
no more than 160 points
Instructions for Extra Credit can be found:
on beachboard
The academic environment of college classrooms requires that you are:
open and tolerant of diverse points of view
There is a sizable body of research to show that improved academic performance is related to taking notes:
particularly when students add their own ideas
To declare the psychology major you need
psy 100,110, & 220 with a grade of C or better and an overall gpa of 2.5
You will face academic challenges in your psychology major that, if you successfully overcome them, make your academic work worthy of a degree in a field. Of all your choices for how you might respond to these challenges, we hope you aspire to overcome them by:
putting forth effort to meet these challenges and, in so doing, acquire valuable skills and knowledge that represent a psychology degree
An explanatory style refers to your beliefs about what causes the positive and negative events in your life. A student with an internal locus of control would likely explain a poor grade she received on a written assignment by:
recognizing her own shortcomings in preparing the paper
A core part of your education as an undergraduate and graduate student in psychology will include training in: (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
research statistics
If a student discovers that no credit has been received for work that was submitted, the student should:
send an email message to [email protected] within ONE week of the due date or grade posting.
According to the research on time management, _____ appears to play an important role in working efficiently (Strickland & Galimba, 2001).
setting personal goals
To keep up with all information and assignments in the course it is suggested that you check BeachBoard News announcements and email:
several times per week including a monday and tuesday
Two factors that are known to impact academic performance, and which you have considerable control over, are: (CHECK TWO BELOW)
sleep & stress
As compared to high school, the difficulty of the academic work increases significantly in college. This increase in difficulty takes the forms of: (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
the amount of material you are expected to learn can be extensive the expectation that students will demonstrate purposeful and reflective thinking about the material understanding the material in greater depth as topics are covered in more detail professors assigning and expecting work to be completed at an advanced level
Several difficulties common among psychology majors relate to understanding the scientific basis of the discipline. These difficulties are described in all of the following EXCEPT:
the lack of opportunities to practice scientific skills in their courses
when submitting written assignments, it is NOT acceptable
to do any of the above
The questions on the final exam are taken from the quizzes. To do well on the final exam you should do all of the following EXCEPT:
try to read all of the course materials when you are studying for the final
There are several strategies you can incorporate into your approach to the academic work in the psychology major that will improve your chances of success in adjusting to the type of learning that is required. These include: (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
working to combat any misleading expectations you have for passive learning in your courses making it a top priority to stay up to date with your academic work learning to ask for help when you need it, but not before you put forth a concerted effort
if you must miss a quiz
you can make up missing points by doing one or more of the Extra Credit assignments
In high school, teachers bear much of the responsibility for their students' learning. In college, however, professors organize and facilitate the course, while you are largely responsible for actively engaging in your own learning. This expectation for students to independently direct their own learning is why:
you spend fewer hours in college classes than in high school
If you try to register for a psychology course and do not have the prerequisites:
you will not be prepared for the course and will have a difficult time with the material.
