TESC - Insights - Social Psychology 379 textbook

[JBtesc]

Can anyone who has taken this class tell me specifically how much the "Insights" textbook was used?

Were there assignments based on it? Did the tests ask things that were only in that book?


Also, if anyone happens to still have theirs, can you tell me what a few of the titles were so I can tell if I have the correct one? I have a feeling I don't.

[Sterling Archer]

JBtesc,
I just received my copy of the Insights study guide yesterday as they were out of stock for over a month. The book is softcover with 298 pages. The title page reads: "Insights Social Psychology. A customized Psychology Reader. Compiled by Thomas Edison State College Social Psychology"

By the end of the third week, we are supposed to have read the first 136 pages of the study guide.

Send me a message if you have any questions

[JBtesc]

Over a month? Holy cow.

Are the written assignments connected to the Insights book?

Also, can you tell me some of the titles of the articles in your edition?

[Sterling Archer]

I would say about 50% of the assignments require reading the study guide. I don't even know if Amazon carries this version. Compared to the study guide for Experimental Psych, Insights is a gold-bound, encyclopedia. I think it is definitely worth the $52.

Here are the first few chapter/article titles:
What is Social Psychology?
Social Psychology's Three Little Pigs
A Procedure for Explaining Experiments Involving Deception
Self-Reports: how Questions Shape The Answers
Virtual Subjects: Using the Internet as an Alternative Source of Subjects and Research Environment
Social Psychologists reflect on their History
They saw a Game: A case study
the Seven Sins of Memory: Insights from psychology And Cognitive Neuroscience
Forming Impressions o Personality

[JBtesc]

I only have two of those. What a racket! Regular textbooks aren't expensive enough they decided to come up with a super special CUSTOM one! omg lol



Thanks so much for taking the time to help me with this, I really appreciate it.

[Sterling Archer]

Anytime, my friend. Let me know if theres anything else I can help with

[JBtesc]

Ok sorry to be a p.i.t.a but... lol

I'm trying to piece this together. Because my book does seem to have *some* of the correct titles, I decided to see if I could find the others online, and some of them are available for public use/printing. I just printed a couple of the articles I found online, but then I realized the book has "questions" that the original article of course does not.

I found this thread; http://www.degreeforum.net/excelsior-tho...379-a.html

On this forum, but it's old.

Are you currently taking the course?
If so, could you compare the Module 1 assignments to this?

It says "written assignment, answer all questions".
Which doesn't make a lot of sense to me, seems awfully vague, and there are quite a few questions in the Insights book I have corresponding with those articles.

If you could copy/paste the Module 1 assignment for me I would be forever in your debt!
I know I'm asking a lot but I'm desperate here! lol


copy/paste from that old thread , does it look like this still?
"Reading Assignment for Module 1

Baron, Branscombe, and Byrne, Social Psychology, chapters 1 and 3


Insights, pp. 1–53 and 79–99:


Arthur Aron and Elaine N. Aron, "What Is Psychology?" 1–10
Donelson R. Forsyth, "Social Psychology's Three Little Pigs," 11–12
Judson Mills, "A Procedure for Explaining Experiments Involving Deception," 13–19
Norbert Schwarz, "Self-Reports: How the Questions Shape the Answers," 20–34
Michael A. Smith and Brant Leigh, "Virtual Subjects: Using the Internet as an Alternative Source of Subjects and Research Environment," 35–46
Arthur Aron and Elaine N. Aron, "Social Psychologists Reflect on Their History," 47–53
S. E. Asch, "Forming Impressions of Personality," 79–87
Victoria Husted Medvec, Scott F. Madey, and Thomas Gilovich, "When Less Is More: Counterfactual Thinking and Satisfaction among Olympic Medalists," 88–96
Thomas J. Schoeneman and Daniel E. Rubanowitz, "Attributions in the Advice Columns: Actors and Observers, Causes and Reasons," 97–99


And your written assignment was:
Answer all questions.

Explain how variables such as social interactions, cognitive processes, environmental variables, cultural context, and biological factors shape what social psychology is all about and how it is practiced.


Choose one of the "cutting edge" issues discussed in the text, and explain its significance in modern social psychology.


Read the advice columns in several newspapers or magazines. Choose 3 to 5 situations that you personally found interesting. Why do you think the actors or observers in these situations behaved the way they did? In your answer, consider consensus, consistency, and the distinctiveness of the person's reactions.
"

[Sterling Archer]

Yes, those are still the assignments. The first 2 questions are assignment #1 and the one with the 5 advice columns is assignment #2