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A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness
(Duke)
A Child Called It (Pelzer)
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
A Grief Observed (C.S. Lewis)
A Guide to Treatments that Work (Nathan and Forman)
Anger: the Misunderstood Emotion (Travis)
Anxiety Free (Leahy)
An Unquiet Mind (Jamison)
A Primer of Jungian Psychology (Hall, Nordby)
A Primer on Sleep and Dreaming (Cartwright)
A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of a
Crisis (Ackerman)
A Way of Being (Rogers)
Alcohol and Crime (Greenfeld)
Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates Itself (Feinberg)
Art of the Will (Rank)
Awakenings (Sacks)
Bad Childhood, Good Life (Schlessinger)
Being Happy (Tuffley)
Biological and Cognitive Constraints on Learning (Kimble)
Blink (Gladwell)
Body Language (Fast)
Born on a Blue Day (Tammet)
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Amen)
Child Abuse (Kempe and Kempe)
Childhood and Society (Erikson)
Children in Danger: Coping with the Consequences of Community Violence (Garbarino, Dubrow, Kostelny)
Children’s Dreaming and the Development of Consciousness
(Foulkes)
Choice Theory (Glasser)
Choosing Joy (Null)
Codependence (Whitefield)
Cognitive Therapy of Depression (Beck, Shaw, Rush,
Emery)
Confessions of a Sociopath – A Life Spent Hiding in Plain
Sight (Thomas)
Connect (Harrell and Hill)
Contagious Optimism (Mezzapelle)
Cooperation and Competition (Johnson and Johnson)
Coping with Loss (Nolen-Hoeksema and Larson)
Courage to Heal (Buss, Davis)
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches (Harris)
Creativity (Csiksentmihalyi)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky)
Criminal Psychology: A Beginner’s Guide (Bell, Bilby,
Cook)
Daydreaming (Barth)
Depression (Beck)
Dibs in Search of Self (Axline)
Divided Consciousness: Multiple Controls in Human
Thought and Action (Hilgard)
Don’t Panic (Wilson)
Doors of Perception (Huxley)
Driven to Distraction (Hallowell and Ratey)
Dying to Be Thin (Sacker)
Emotional Intelligence (Goleman)
Emotion Revealed (Ekman)
Emotional Intimacy (Masters)
Escape from Freedom (Fromm)
Everything in Its Place (Summers)
Fasting Girls: the History of Anorexia (Brumberg)
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (Jeffers)
Feeling Good (Burne)
Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience
(Csikszentmihalyi)
Focus (Halvorson, Higgins)
For One More Day (Albom)
From Panic to Power (Bassett)
From Placebo to Panacea: Putting Psychiatric Drugs to the
Test (Fisher and Greenberg)
From Sad to Glad (Kline)
Games People Play (Berne)
Getting Control – Overcoming Your Obsessions (Baer)
Girl, Interrupted (Kaysen)
Groupthink (Janis)
Hallucination (Sachs)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
He (Johnson)
Happy People (Freedman)
Head First: the Biology of Hope (Cousins)
Healing the Child Within (Whitfield)
Healing the Shame That Binds You (Bradshaw)
The High Price of Materialism (Kasser)
His Needs, Her Needs (Harley)
How to Break Your Addiction to a Person (Halpern)
How the Mind Works (Pinker)
House of Cards: Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on
Myth (Dawes)
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Carnegie)
How to Think Like a Psychologist (McBurney)
How to Think Straight About Psychology (Stanovich)
How We Know What Isn’t So: the Fallibility of Human
Reason in Everyday Society (Gilovich)
Human Emotions (Izard)
Hypnosis, Will, and Memory: a Psycho-legal History
(Laurence and Perry)
Ideology and Insanity (Szasz)
I'm Ok—You’re Ok (Harris)
Imperfect Control (Viorsk)
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s
Development (Gilligan)
Industrial/organizational Psychology: Understanding the
Workplace (Levy)
Intuition (Myers)
IQ – a Smart History of a Failed Idea (Murdoch)
Jeopardy in the Courtroom: a Scientific Analysis of
Children’s Testimony (Ceci and Bruck)
Just Checking (Colas)
Kids’ Stuff: Marketing Sex and Violence to America’s
Children ((Anderson)
King Lear (Shakespeare)
King Solomon's Ring (Lorenz)
Language and Mind (Chomsky)
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your
Life (Seligman)
Learning, Remembering, Believing: Enhancing Human
Performance (Druckman and Bjork)
Life Strategies (McGraw)
Listening to Prozac (Kramer)
Living with Schizophrenia (Emmons, Geisler, Kaplan,
Harrow)
Living the Truth (Ablow)
Love and Addiction (Peele)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Man and His Symbols (Jung)
Man's Search for Meaning (Frankl)
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus (Gray)
Mapping the Mind (Carter)
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung)
Midlife Myths (Hunter and Sundel)
Mind Wide Open (Johnson)
Mindsight (Siegel)
Multiple Intelligences (Gardner)
Multiple Personality: An Exercise in Deception (Aldridge-
Morris)
Multiple Views of Multiple Intelligence (Gardner)
Nature’s Mind: the Biological Roots of Thinking, Emotions,
Sexuality, Language, and Intelligence (Gazzaniga)
Nature’s Thumbprint: The New Genetics of Personality
(Neubauer and Neubauer)
Neurosis and Human Growth (Horney)
Nonverbal Sex Differences (Hall)
Now Discover Your Strengths (Buckingham and Clifton)
Obedience to Authority (Milgram )
On Becoming a Person (Rogers)
On Being a Therapist (Kotler)
On Death and Dying (Kubler-Ross)
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey)
Opening Skinner’s Box (Slater)
Ordinary People (Guest)
Owning Your Own Shadow (Johnson)
People Skills (Bolton)
Perception Without Awareness (Bornstein and Pittman)
Perfect Chaos (Johnson, Johnson)
Personality and Social Intelligence (Cantor and Kihlstrom)
Personality in Adulthood (McCrae and Costa)
Phobias (Saul)
Pioneers of Psychology (Fancher)
Power Sleep (Maas)
Prozac Backlash (Glenmullen)
Prozac Nation (Wurtzel)
Psycholinguistics (Foulkes)
Psychology in America (Hilgard)
Psychology Through the Eyes of Faith (Myers, Jeeves,
Wolterstorff)
Reality Therapy (Glasser)
Remembering Well (Sargeant and Unkenstein)
Reviving Ophelia – Saving the Souls of Adolescent Girls
(Pipher)
Schizophrenia Genesis: the Origins of Madness (Gottesman)
Searching for Memory (Schacter)
She (Johnson)
Shyness (Zimbardo)
Spontaneous Happiness (Weil)
Strange Brains and Genius (Pickover)
Stress Inoculation Training (Meichenbaum)
Surviving an Eating Disorder (Siegel, Brisman, Weinshel)
Sybil (Schreiber)
The Antecedents of Self-esteem (Coopersmith)
The Antisocial Personalities (Lykken)
The Art of Loving (Fromm)
The Atoms of Language: the Mind’s Hidden Rules of
Grammar (Baker)
The Attraction Paradigm (Byrne)
The Awakening (Chopin)
The Beast: a Journey Through Depression (Thompson)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature
(Pinker)
The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing (Rappaport)
The Courage to Create (May)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Pynchon)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nighttime (Haddon)
The End of Sanity: Social and Cultural Madness in America
(Gross)
The Far Reaches of Human Nature (Maslow)
The Gestalt Approach (Perlz)
The Gift of Fear (DeBecker)
The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)
The Introvert Advantage (Lange)
The Lenses of Gender (Bem)
The Lives of a Cell (Thomas)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Sacks)
The Manufacture of Madness (Szasz)
The Meme Machine (Blackmore)
The Mindful Way Through Depression (Williams, Teasdale,
Segel, Kabat-Zinn)
The Myth of Repressed Memory (Loftus and Ketcham)
The Nature of Adolescence (Coleman)
The Nature of Prejudice (Allport)
The Nature of the Child (Kagan)
The New Passages (Sheehy)
The Nightmare (Hartmann)
The Not So Big Life (Susandra)
The Nurture Assumption (Harris)
The Paradox of Gender (Maccoby)
The Power of Intention (Dyer)
The Power of Positive Thinking (Peale)
The Price of Greatness: Resolving the Creativity and
Madness Controversy (Ludwig)
The Promise of Sleep (Dement)
The Psychology of Control (Ladd)
The Psychology of Everyday Things (Norman)
The Pursuit of Happiness (Myers)
The Road Less Traveled (Peck)
The Quiet Room (Schiller, Bennett))
The Rising Curve: Long Term Gains in IQ (Neisser)
The Seat of the Soul (Zukav)
The Secret of Letting Go (Finley)
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People (Covey)
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (Branden)
The Social and Economic Circumstances of Adults with
Social Learning Theory (Bandura)
The Social Psychology of Creativity (Amabile)
The Story of Psychology (Hunt)
The Synaptic Self (LeDoux)
The Talking Cure (Vaughan)
The Thief of Happiness (Friedman)
The Three-Pound Universe (Hooper and Teresi)
The Trauma Toolkit (Pease Bennett)
The Undiscovered Self (Jung)
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
Touched with Fire; Manic-depressive Illness and the Artistic
Temperament (Jamison)
Toxic People (Glass)
Toxic Psychiatry (Breggin)
Turn of the Screw (James)
Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend (Crews)
Understanding Culture’s Influence on Behavior (Brislin)
Understanding Sleep and Dreaming (Moorcraft)
Unmasking the Face (Ekman and Friesen)
Urban Stress (Glass and Singer)
Walden Two (Skinner)
The War Against Parents (Hewlett and West)
Wet Mind: the New Cognitive Neuroscience (Kosslyn and
Koenig)
What’s Age Got to Do with It? (Ferrin)
The Wheel of Life (Kubler-Ross)
When All You’ve Ever Wanted Isn’t Enough (Kushner)
When Food Is Love (Roth)
When I Say No, I Feel Guilty (Smith)
When Panic Attacks (Burns)
White Oleander (Fitch)
Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of
Belief (Newberg and D’Aquili)
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail (Gottman)
Why Spanking Doesn’t Work (Marshall)
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think (Hauser)
Without Conscience: the Disturbing World of the
Psychopaths Among Us (Hare)
Wounded Minds (Liebert, Birnes)
Your Memory: a User’s Guide (Baddeley)
AP Psychology: Research
As a project choice, you may design, run, analyze, and present the results of an experiment.
Many of the techniques you use will depend upon your design, either creating and testing something original, or using / varying previous research. You will make a hypothesis concerning a population, and then determine the best procedure to test for cause and effect. This test will include experimental and control groups, and will be designed to clearly isolate the independent and dependent variables from confounding variables. You will determine the method to achieve random or representative samples (not your friends; perhaps every
third person who walks by, at several, very different locations).
The number in the sample will depend upon the nature of your experiment, but should
typically be at least 100 subjects for a survey / questionnaire, or at least 30 subjects for a test / performance-type experiment. (I will give you feedback on your idea when you submit the completed "Experimental Proposal" form to me.) For the purposes of this assignment, the actual experimental time should be about 5 hours.
When you have completed the experimental phase, then it's on to statistics. You
1. design a frequency distribution
2. calculate central tendency and variance for the groups (probably the mean and standard deviation)
3. make a histogram or line curve that best shows any tendencies in the data.
As you write the actual report, you will use the APA report format, including your hypothesis, describing the design of your experiment, the actual testing procedures and results, and discussing whether the results seem to be due to chance, or if there was any potential correlation or cause and effect. In the conclusion you will attempt to make a tentative generalization to the population (not a statistical one: you are just noticing, diagramming, and explaining visually apparent trends). Also in the conclusion you will comment on possible implications and / or further tests, analysis of the data which should be done by those who read your study.
You will turn in the typed, APA-formatted report, and sign up to present your findings orally. Also, feel free to candidly discuss your research. Did you have problems with subjects, design? Was it hard to remain neutral? What unexpectedly occurred? What would you now do differently? Surprises??
DUE DATES:
1. Your Experimental Proposal: at least two weeks before presentation
---run experiment---
2. Turn in final written report, sign up for oral presentation:
APA Report Format
-typed
-margins 1" sides, 1-11/2 " top, bottom
-ALL double spaced (including bibliography)
-pages: abstract not counted; then first page not numbered -- start numbering with page two
(third actual page: put number only on upper right margin)
-actual report:
1. TITLE: short, the point of the research; names underneath, then institution (ECR)
2. ABSTRACT: brief preview (about 100 -150 words) of problem investigated, procedure,
subjects, and equipment used, and major results, conclusions (hint: write this last!)
3. INTRODUCTION: new page with title; discuss origin of the question, theories and
previous related research/events leading to this research, build to your hypothesis
4. METHOD: step-by-step how you did the experiment. Discuss the subjects, equipment,
and all procedures (in detail! Must be enough to replicate.)
5. RESULTS: summarize the data with graphs at end, and explain
possible relation to your
hypothesis.
6. DISCUSSION:
possible implications, further studies, analysis, improvements in design or
procedure
7. REFERENCES: last names first, period, title (capitalize first word, then small; book
underlined, but no quotes on article), book title, pages, period
(8) ENDNOTES: indent five; use for additional comments
9. GRAPHS / TABLES: frequency distribution, histogram /
line curve, correlation chart, etc.
The following examples may be used as a guide for your references format:
-
Journal article:
Appelbaum, P.S., Greer, A. (2004). Confidentiality in group
therapy.
Hospital Community Psychology, 44, 311-312.
2. Book:
Slavin, R.E. (2008). What students need to know about
confidentiality.
Educational psychology: theory and practice (4
th
ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Paramount Publishing.
Unpublished Manuscript:
Beneke, J.S. (1996). A study of the relationship of
confidentiality to selected academic and behavioral variables in a
high school student population (Unpublished doctoral dissertation).
Miller College, TX.
Experimental Proposal
1. Your theory:
2. Hypothesis: independent / dependent variables, or what variables correlated?
3. Design: how will you show this? Equipment to be used?
4. Target Population: how will you achieve this? (random, stratified: how you will pick subjects)
5. Anticipated problems and how you will solve them (such as experimenter bias, "test anxiety",
"Hawthorne effect", etc.)
6. Concerns, questions, comments???