iCube--Issues in Intro (General Psychology at The University of Connecticut) Podcasts

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Weekly discussions hosted by Dr. David B. Miller, Professor of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT U.S.A. A small number of students enrolled in Professor Miller's General Psychology course meet to discuss lecture material covered each week in this large-enrollment (315 students) course. Primary Format : Higher Education Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : Unknown Region : XX User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of iCube--Issues in Intro (General Psychology at The University of Connecticut) Podcasts Methings.com listings of iCube--Issues in Intro (General Psychology at The University of Connecticut) Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Week 10: March 29, 2012 Discussion about pheromones and hormones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 9: March 22, 2012 Discussion about the nervous system and pheromones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 8: March 8, 2012 Discussion about the nervous system and procedures used to study the brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 7: March 1, 2012 Discussion about neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, anti-depressant drugs, and methods for studying the brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 6: February 23, 2012 Discussion about the nervous system, including axonal & synaptic transmission, glia, norephinephrine, glutamate, and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 5: February 16, 2012 Discussion about behavior genetics and brain-behavior relationships. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 4: February 9, 2012 Discussion about field and lab research, external validity, sham operates, yoked controls, and genetic principles, including historical and modern issues surrounding the nature-nurture controversy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 3: February 1, 2012 Announcement of cancellation of this week's discussion podcast. Please rejoin us next week! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 2: January 26, 2012 Discussion about naturalistic observation, behavioral development, continuity, and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 1: January 19, 2012 Discussion about the definition of psychology, hypothetical constructs, imprinting, critical periods, and other concepts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 1: Course Policies ENHANCED podcast covering some of the main course policies, study tips, and related issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for December 8, 2011 Discussion about learning. This is the final podcast for Fall 2011. We shall return with new students on January 19, 2012. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 27: Learning 4 ENHANCED podcast on applications of learning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for December 1, 2011 Discussion of perception and learning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for November 17, 2011 Discussion about perception, including illusions, constancies, and subliminal perception. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for November 10, 2011 Discussion about hormones and sensation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for November 3, 2011 Discussion about pheromones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for October 27, 2011 Discussion of the nervous system, including brain laterality, brain damage, and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for October 20, 2011 Discussion of the nervous system, including modern techniques for studying the brain, parts of the brain, and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Postcast 2: Psychology Major Information Session Not really course-related, this postcast is the recording of an informational session on October 18, 2011, for undergraduates seeking information on the psychology major at UConn. (Uploaded to the iCube series by request.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for October 13, 2011 Discussion about neurotransmitters, axonal & synaptic transmission, neuropeptides, and parts of the nervous system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Postcast 1: Axonal & Synaptic Transmission Special Postcast on axonal and synaptic transmission, the understanding of which is crucial for understanding many of the remaining lectures on the nervous system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for October 6, 2011 Discussion about the nervous system, including glia, myelin, axonal and synaptic transmission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for September 29, 2011 Discussion about behavior genetics, domestication, nature-nurture, and the nervous system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for September 22, 2011 Discussion about research-related ethical issues and behavior genetics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for September 15, 2011 Discussion about research methods, including naturalistic observation, correlation, experimentation, sham operates, and yoked controls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for September 8, 2011 Discussion about historical figures in the history of psychological science as well as various schools of thought and theoretical and conceptual issues that have followed us to the present. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for September 1, 2011 First discussion podcast of Fall 2011 semester. Students discuss an overview of psychological science and course policies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 1: Course Policies ENHANCED podcast describing course policies for GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY I. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 14: April 28, 2011 Discussion about learning, The Garcia Effect, and related topics. This is the final podcast of the Spring 2011 semester. We shall return for a new series of iCube discussions on September 1, 2011. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 13: April 21, 2011 Discussion about learning, including discrimination learning, classical and operant conditioning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 24: Perception 2 & Learning 1 ENHANCED podcast on backmasking, pupillometry, blinking, microexpressions, and various concepts associated with learning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 12: April 14, 2011 Discussion about perception, including illusions and subliminal perception. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 23: Perception 1 ENHANCED podcast on perception, illusions, subliminal perception, and backmasking in rock music. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 11: April 7, 2011 Discussion about hormones and sensory systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 10: March 31, 2011 Discussion about pheromones and hormones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precst 19: Exocrine & Endocrine System 2 ENHANCED podcast on human pheromones, the pituitary gland, and the thyroid gland and related hormones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 9: March 24, 2011 Discussion about the nervous system, including brain lateralization, brain damage, and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 8: March 17, 2011 Discussion about the nervous system, including modern methods for studying the brain, hallucinations, and brain-behavior relationships. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 7: March 3, 2011 Discussion about the nervous system, including neuropeptides, other neurotransmitters, and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 6: February 24, 2011 Discussion about axonal and synaptic transmission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 5: February 17 2011 Discussion about behavior genetics, domestication, and the nervous system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 9: How To Take Exam ENHANCED podcast on procedures that must be followed on exam days. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 4: February 10, 2011 Discussion about behavior genetics and various aspects of the nature-nurture problem. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 3: February 3, 2011 Discussion about research methodology, including experimentation, correlation, and ethical issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 2: January 27, 2011 Announcement of cancellation of this week's discussion podcast due to the closing of campus because of severe weather. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Week 1: January 20, 2011 First discussion podcast of the Spring 2011 semester, focusing on general psychological issues, animal research, and course policies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for December 9, 2010 Discussion on learning and related topics. This is the final podcast of the Fall 2010 semester. We shall return on January 20, 2011, for the Spring 2011 semester podcast series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Postcast 4: Review Session for Final Exam Review session for final exam with students enrolled in the INTD 1998 Learning in the Discipline course. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 26: Learning 3 ENHANCED podcast on operant conditioning, complex learning processes, and applications of classical conditioning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for December 2, 2010 Discussion about learning, especially discrimination, generalization, and classical and operant conditioning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 25: Learning 2 ENHANCED podcast on discrimination learning, generalization, and classical conditioning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for November 18, 2010 Discussion on sensation and perception. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for November 11, 2010 Discussion about hormones and sensation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for November 4, 2010 Discussion about pheromones and hormones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for October 28, 2010 Discussion on the nervous system, including the limbic system, brain lateralization, brain damage, and the next major topic, pheromones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Postcast 3: Review Session for Second Mid-term Exam Question & answer session with students enrolled in the INTD 1998 Learning in the Discipline course regarding material for the second mid-term exam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for October 21, 2010 Discussion about techniques for studying the brain and the function of structures such as the cerebellum, hypothalamus, and amygdala. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 16: Nervous System 6 ENHANCED podcast on the hindbrain, midbrain, diencephalon, and other structures. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for October 14, 2010 Discussion on the nervous system including neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, exogenous substances, and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 13: Nervous System 3 ENHANCED podcast on neurotransmitters and drugs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for October 7, 2010 Discussion on neurons, glial cells, axonal and synaptic transmission, and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for September 30, 2010 Discussion on how to improve studying, and various topics related to behavior genetics, domestication, and brain-behavior relationships. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for September 23, 2010 Discussion of behavior genetics and other topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Postcast 2: Review Session for First Mid-term Exam Review session with students from our course who are enrolled in the INTD 1998 LEARNING IN THE DISCIPLINE course, in preparation for the first mid-term exam. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for September 16, 2010 Discussion about research methods, history, and other topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for September 9, 2010 Discussion podcast on historical figures in psychology and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Postcast 1: September 9, 2010 Class Lecture For the benefit of students who were absent while observing Rosh Hashanah, this is a recording of the lecture covering the second portion of history and the beginning of research methodology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Discussion for September 2, 2010 First podcast of Fall 2010. Students in GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY I. at The University of Connecticut discuss the nature of the course and topics including the problem of defining psychology, the huge problem of confusing popular psychology with psychological science, critical periods, and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Supplemental Instruction: Fall 2010 Barbara Gruenbaum, our Supplemental Instruction (SI) leader, discusses what SI is all about and its benefits. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Postcast 3: Review Session for Final Exam Review session for final exam with students from the INTD 1998 Learning in the Discipline course. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | iCube Discussion for March 18, 2010 Discussion about the nervous system, including scanning technologies, parts of the brain, brain plasticity, autism, and related topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 9: Procedures for Taking the Exam ENHANCED podcast describing precise procedures that must be followed when taking my exams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Postcast 1: Review Session for First Mid-term Exam Review session for first mid-term exam based on questions submitted by my students who are also enrolled in the INTD 1998 Learning in the Discipline course. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Supplemental Instruction David Miller and this year's SUPPLEMENTAL INSTRUCTION (SI) Leader, Dan Galtieri, discuss what SI is all about, who it's for, and the benefits to be gained by attending. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | iCube Discussion for April 16, 2009 Students discuss perception, illusions, and submliminal perception. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Postcast 2: Coursecast of February 19, 2009 Lecture Because of inclement weather and the chance that some commuting students could not get to campus, this is an edited coursecast of the Feb. 19, 2009 lecture (continuation of genetics and domestication). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Comments on Student Evaluations from Fall 2008 David Miller replies and reacts to some comments made by Fall 2008 students on end-of-semester on course evaluations, with an eye toward helping Spring 2009 students. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | iCube Special Edition Roundtable discussion hosted by David Miller on "Podcasting Psychology: Ideas and Considerations," at the 31st Annual Meeting of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, January 5, 2009, St. Petersburg Beach, FL. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Special Edition: Advice from"A"Students Successful study tips from a group of students who earned an "A" on each of the two mid-term exams during the Fall 2008 semester. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | INTD 1998: Learning in the Discipline Interview with Cathy Healy, instructor of this special learning skills class reserved for students in my General Psychology course. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Writing Center Interview with Dr. Tom Deans, Director of UConn's Writing Center. Learn about how the Writing Center can help you develop better writing skills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | iCube Trailer and Student Comments Video trailer recorded and edited by award-winning videographer Benjamin Gruenbaum. Student comments and reactions to having participated in the creation of iCube. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Campus Technology Podcasting Presentation David Miller's invited address at Campus Technology Summer 2008 Conference, Boston, MA, July 29, 2008. Title of Presentation: Forget Coursecasting: Podcasting as Educational Inspiration at UConn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Scholarship Opportunities Interview with Dr. Jill Deans, Director of UConn's Office of National Scholarships (http://ons.uconn.edu). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Orientation 2008: High School vs. UConn David Miller discusses the academic challenges that lie ahead and adjustments students will have to undertake as they make the change from high school to UConn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 22--Perception 2 Part 2 of Perception, including illusions, perceptual constancy, and subliminal perception. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 21--Sensation 3 & Perception 1 Part 3 of Sensation, including vision and the ontogeny of sensory systems; and, Part 1 of Perception, including Umwelt and illusions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 20--Sensation 2 Part 2 of Sensation, including skin senses, kinesthetic senses, olfaction, taste, and audition. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 19--Exocrine & Endocrine Systems 3 and Sensation 1 Part 3 of Exocrine & Endocrine Systems, including sexual differentiation, adrenal medulla, gonads, and related topics; and, Part 1 of Sensation, including sensation vs. perception, and sensory thresholds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Special Edition: Studying Advice From Our "A" Students Students who earned an A on each of the 2 mid-term exams offer advice on they approached the material and prepared for the exams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 18--Exocrine & Endocrine Systems 2 Part 2 of Exocrine & Endocrine Systems, including pheromone experiments, pituitary gland, thyroid, and adrenal cortex. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 17--Exocrine & Endocrine Systems 1 Part 1 of exocrine and endocrine systems, including pheromone communication in nonhuman and human organisms. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 16--Nervous System 7 Part 7 of the nervous system, including forebrain structures, brain laterality, and brain damage. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 15--Nervous System 6 Part 6 of the nervous system, including the hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain structures and their relationship with behavior. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 14--Nervous System 5 Part 5 of the nervous system, including brain imaging technologies, and the cerebellum. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 13--Nervous System 4 Part 4 of the nervous system, including functional groups of neurons, parts of the nervous system, and methods of studying the brain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 12--Nervous System 3 Part 3 of the nervous system, including inhibition vs. excitation, endogenous vs. exogenous substances, and neuropeptides. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 11--Nervous System 2 Part 2 of the Nervous System, including synaptic transmission, neurotransmitters, and exogenous drugs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 10--Nervous System 1 Part 1 of the Nervous System, including axonal transmission. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 9--Genetics 3 Part 3 of Behavior Genetics, including a metaphor for behavioral development, monozygotic twins reared apart, and domestication. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Special Study Abroad Interview An interview with former General Psychology student, Joseph Synnott, who used podcasting technology to document a year of study abroad in Paris, France. A "must-listen" for students interested in study abroad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 8--Genetics 2 Part 2 of Behavior Genetics, including laws of inheritance, chromosomal abnormalities, and the nature-nurture controversy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 7--Research Methods 4 & Genetics 1 Part 4 of Research Methods, including ethics and statistics, and Part 1 of Behavior Genetics, including basic genetic principles. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 6--Research Methods 3 Part 3 of research methods, including correlation, experimentation, variables, and experimental and control groups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 5--Research Methods 2 Part 3 of Research Methods, including naturalistic observation and correlation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 4--History 2 & Research Methods 1 Part 2 of History, including contributions by Darwin and others, and Part 1 of Research Methods, including types of research and naturalistic observation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 3--Overview 2 & History 1 Part 2 of Overview of Psychology, including goals and diversity of psychology, and Part 1 of History, including early Greeks. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 2--Overview 1 Overview of psychological science. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sneak Preview of Course Content (Enhanced) Enhanced podcast describing course contents. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | PsychobabbleDissected The making of Psychobabble theme song. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Precast 1--Course Policies ENHANCED podcast describing course policies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | About iCube Podcasts Description of the iCube podcast discussions, enhanced Precasts, and Postcasts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Radio Interview on Podcasting WILI-AM radio (Willimantic, CT) talk-show host, Wayne Norman, interviews David Miller on podcasting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Student Discussion of iCube Podcasts David Miller is joined by former iCube student participants who discuss how iCube podcasts enhance the course. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Student Reactions to Spring 2006 Podcasts David Miller discusses student responses to survey items regarding the Spring 2006 iCube podcast series. (This is an enhanced podcast.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | iCube--Student Discussion of, and Reaction to, iCube Podcasts David Miller is joined by former iCube student participants who discuss how iCube podcasts enhance the course. Featuring Jesse Muirhead, Seth Hosmer, Benjamin Gruenbaum, Tim Hanbury, Adnan Nur, and Nidhi Shrivastava. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |