concepts
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lecture schedule)
| Lecture | Resources | Lab Handout | Readings / Resources (optional unless noted) |
| lecture | Method: generalization | Prototype | When does personhood begin? In this 20' online lecture (mp3 , slides) developmental biologist Scott Gilbert from Swarthmore College highlights the difficulties of pinpointing when sperm and egg become 'a person'. |
| references | |||
| Study Guide | Applied: defining legal concepts | mini-lecture on Prototype & Posner's study | folk theory of evolution |
| folk psychiatry | |||
| stereotypes (Rothbart) | |||
| DSM & causal theories of mental illness (Ahn) | |||
| Essentialism & mental illness (Ahn, PsySci) | |||
| Asperger diagnosis (S. Baron-Cohen, NYTimes, '09) |
USEFUL LINKS
Would you marry someone with Type B blood type? this report from the BBC, starting at 34.50, nicely illustrates the idea of Race as a socially constructed concept.
rumor chain (ToP)