Hello! This is Dr. Brouk. Welcome to INET or Online Introduction to
 
psychology! In this video I will try to
briefly cover the important information
and steps necessary to successful course
completion when you open your course
shell you will see the title
introduction to psychology here we have
the number the course number the section
and the buttons that are basically links
to get to different pages of your shell
it starts with announcements syllabus
and calendar quizzes number 1 through 5
assigning questions and study guides
discussion board where you have
discussion board activities staff
information and the remainder of buttons
you can explore on your own let's look
at the syllabus and the calendar this is
online or in our introduction to
psychology section D it is a short
semester it's only 7 weeks starting on
June 18th and ending on August 4th
I'm dr. Brooke you can find the contact
information here please when you send
out emails use your GGC account and
include your name phone number course
title course section in your
communication so when you send out an
email it should include all of this
information since this is a summer
course I will be more than happy to meet
with you by an appointment just send me
an email or call and we will set
something up this is a three credit
course and the prereq for this course is
intro to reading and study skills please
read the description online course
psychology introduces students to some
of the major theories and topics of
psychology including physiological basis
of behavior personality learning
theories memory states of consciousness
stress research methods intelligence
human development psychopathology and
social behavior psychopathology is
basically study of pathology of the mind
and behavior the course textbook is by
Schaefer and NOK and it's published in
2018 you can use other editions as long
as you keep up with the topics
meaning that one edition may have the
development chapter on chapter tap on
chapter 10 another edition may have
development on chapter 8 so if you
choose to use a different edition be
sure to follow the right chapter for
this course you need access to a
computer and a GTC email account
competencies and core abilities are
the topics and the soft skills that we
will be practicing in this course these
are the topics that we will discuss in
the course and these are the soft skills
that are important for your
employability you need to be able to
communicate clearly and effectively
think critically effectively and engage
in abstract thinking gain an
understanding of your own behavior and
the way you think in different
situations
last but not least respect cultural
diversity and pluralism you are
evaluated based on your reading and
writing assignments that will be
determined by how you perform on five
quizzes and five discussion board
activities so in this course we have a
thousand points 400 of them come from
your 5 quizzes each quiz is worth 80
points and 5 online discussion board
activities each worth 120 points for the
quizzes you can use your notes however
you cannot use laptop phone or your
textbook looks complete discussing the
open notes quizzes each quiz covers
three to five chapters there are 25 true
or false on multiple-choice questions
95% of your test or quiz questions come
from the assignment
questions under study guide so let's go
and look at this these are your
assignment questions which are based on
the first chapter so you read the first
chapter and then you go and answer these
questions to know exactly what I'm
looking for after you answer these
questions you will click on this and
find my lecture notes these lecture
notes is completely discussed in this
video
hello this is dr. Brooke this is 48
minutes however I think it is very
helpful in you pinpointing exactly what
is important for the quizzes as I say in
the syllabus 95% of your quiz questions
come from those assignment questions and
the study guide it's not really a lot of
information but you can do really well
by spending two or three hours a week
completing the assignment questions
which you can use as notes for taking
your quizzes and also watching the
videos the quizzes are open notes
harmer because they're open notes you
cannot have unlimited time to complete
them so you need to be aware that you
only have 50 minutes and your 25
questions this should not be the first
time that you open your book that is
when you're taking the quizzes should
not be the first time that you open your
textbook because you will certainly run
out of time and will not be able to do
very well once you start the quiz you
need to complete it in one sitting
questions appear one at a time and they
are random so if two people are sitting
next to each other they're going to have
different questions do not try to go
back you will lose access to your quiz
and this has happened before and I will
know exactly why you
most access to blackboard please do not
wait until last minute all of your tasks
in this class are due on mondays at noon
so waiting to complete a task at 10 o
clock in the morning on Monday morning
will cause everybody a lot of
unnecessary stress in addition if you
miss the deadline you can lose 20 to 50
percent of the potential points there
are five discussion board activities
these are really easy activities that
you can get a lot of points on if you do
them correctly which are not very
difficult to do and on time all of your
activities must be posted on blackboard
as a post and not as an attachment again
please please do not wait to complete
them at the last minute you will lose
points and cause yourself and everybody
else stress the specific topics are
Student Success love and brain behavior
learning tweets from psychologists past
what is your psychological diagnosis
which is basically a series of cases
that you will be able to diagnose at the
end of the semester if you have between
930 and a thousand you get an A 8:30 to
9:00 29.9 a B 7:30 to a 29.9 SC 6:30 to
seven 29.9 a D and anything below six
29.9 will be enough
there are no make ups unless you meet
these criteria if you do need to make up
you will lose points 20 to 50% please
take a minute and read the remainder of
the information on your syllabus so we
can go over the calendar here you find
very important information to make
things a little easier to understand on
the calendar all of the reading and
writing assignments are marked by three
stars and are highlighted in yellow your
quizzes are in red and please remember
that everything is always due at noon
quizzes are due at noon on Mondays and
discussion board activities are in blue
and they are due at noon on Fridays the
first week June 18 you will watch this
video you will go over the syllabus and
explore your blackboard shell in
addition two chapters are due you will
read and watch the video lectures and
complete assignment questions for these
chapters
on Friday your first discussion board
activity is due again this is due at
noon on Friday week two you will have
your first quiz which is due on Monday
at noon and covers chapters 1 & 2
after completing the quiz you start
reading and watching the video lectures
for chapters 3 & 4 at the end of the
week on Friday your second discussion
board activity is due which is related
to neuroscience you can read the tasks
for the remainder of the semester here
however I want to point out two facts
about the course
one is that the reading and writing
assignment questions are just for you
you do not email any of your assignments
Timmie the only tasks that are graded or
your quizzes and your discussion board
activities the assignment questions are
for you to practice the information and
comprehended and your knowledge is
tested through your performance on
quizzes and also discussion board
activities I hope that is clear let's
look at the assignment questions under
study guides every week you have reading
assignments so you read the check
after you watch these videos if there
are videos and then for yourself you
complete these questions the five
quizzes that you have they are basically
testing of the information covered on
these assignment questions so you don't
send your responses to these questions
to me but I know whether you have
completed the tasks or not based on how
you perform on your quizzes so there are
questions for every chapter and they say
once you complete reading and
understanding chapter one you should be
able to these are the questions not the
course competencies this is one course
competencies competency and these are
the questions based on this competency
these are the questions that you need to
practice on your own for chapter two
these two questions are the assignment
questions for chapter 3 these are the
questions for chapter four these four
questions or your assignment questions
and so on the discussion board is here
and you are going to have access to all
of your discussion board activities from
day one in case if you wanted to get
started on them earlier
the same thing with your quizzes they
will be available on the first day
they're not today but they will be by
tomorrow I hope that this little video
has provided you ample information to
navigate through the course and
successfully completed thank you for
watching and I look forward to working
with you
