Mind and Brain: Introduction to perception, memory, learning, and cognition. With laboratory.
Statistical Methods in Psychology: Probability and statistics applied in psychological research. Topics include descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, correlation, regression, and design of experiments. Prereq: MATH 111, PSY 201, 202, WR 121, 122. With laboratory.
Biopsychology: Relationships between brain and endocrine activity and behavior. Topics include sensation, perception, sexual behavior, drug effects, eating, drinking, sleeping, dreaming, and learning.
Music and the Brain: Explores the neural correlates of our perception of tonality, harmony, melody, and rhythm and how these relate to neurobiology, brain damage, and cognitive neuroscience.
Child Development: Survey of social, intellectual, and personality development in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Previously offered as PSY 375; not repeatable.
Psychoactive Drugs: Physiological and behavioral effects of psychoactive drugs such as alcohol, opiates, barbiturates, and excitants. The psychology of use and overuse; therapies for correcting drug problems.
Applied Data Analysis: Intermediate-level practical data analysis and interpretation. Topics include experimental design, analysis of variance, multiple regression, exploratory data analysis. Extensive computer use. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Cognitive Science with Lab: Interdisciplinary approaches to studying mind and brain; includes material from anthropology; cognitive, social, and developmental psychology; computer science; linguistics; and philosophy. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Cognition: Issues of memory; coding for storage, control processes for storage; attention and cognitive control; analysis of more complex cognitive tasks; approaches to problem solving. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Perception: Topics covered are color, size, shape, depth, distance, and movement. Examines the relationships between stimuli and perception, stimuli and the neural response, and the neural response and perception. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Brain Mechanisms of Behavior: Organization of the mammalian brain. Structure and function of the neuronal systems underlying vision, perception, motivation, coordinated movement, sleep-wakefulness, learning and memory, and affective disorders. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303, 304.
Hormones and Behavior: Relationships among the brain, endocrine systems, and behavior. Developmental effects of hormones on the brain, puberty, sexuality, aggression, stress. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Group Dynamics: Topics in small-group dynamics, including decision-making, conflict, and changes over time in group structure and behavior. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Cultural Psychology: Examination of the interdependence between mind and culture in various substantive domains such as social inference, motivation, emotion, and psychopathology. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Imagination: Topics in human imagination, including creativity, children's pretend play, fiction writing, imagery, mental time travel, consciousness, dreaming, virtual worlds, and disorders of the imagination. Prereq: WR 121, 122, PSY 303.
Psychopathology: Major descriptive and theoretical approaches to etiological, developmental, and social factors in emotion and personality disorders. Includes assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and special topics. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Personality: Theory and methods for studying human traits, including personality measures and tests; studies of age, gender, and culture. Current research in personality. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Marital and Family Therapies: Behavioral basis of dyadic interactions; adult intimacy and love relationships. Clinical-counseling approaches: assessment, marital therapies, and evaluation. Models of marital adjustment and assessment of interpersonal relationships. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Language Acquisition:Offered How children acquire language from the earliest speech sounds to full sentences. Topics include babbling, first words, word combinations, the relationship between cognition and language development. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Development and Psychopathology: Biological and environmental factors that shape normal and abnormal development. Analysis of how family functioning affects psychopathology and resilience in children and adolescents. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Mind and Society: Introduction to topics in clinical, personality, social, and developmental psychology. With discussion.
Research Methods in Psychology: Use of library and bibliographic methods, handling of survey data, coding, interviews, standardized tests, and experiments. Prereq: WR 121, 122; PSY 302.
Thinking: Psychological methods involved in problem solving, complex learning, and various forms of rational and irrational reasoning and belief systems.
Culture and Mental Health: Role of culture in the definition and maintenance of mental health and the definition and treatment of mental illness.
Psychology of Gender: Critical analysis of evidence for sex differences, gender roles, and the effect of gender on traditional issues in psychology. Topics include parenthood, violence, and sexual orientation.
Human Sexuality: The nature of human sexuality; hormonal, instinctual, and learned factors in sexuality; psychosexual development; sexual orientation; frequency and significance of various types of sexual behavior; sexual inadequacy; sexual deviation.
Psychology and Law: Introduction to topics of concern to both psychology and the law. Includes eyewitness identification, legal decision-making, criminal defenses, profiling, polygraphy, and mental-health law. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Learning and Memory: Processes underlying learning and memory, including evolution. Topics range from simple forms of behavior change to the acquisition, retention, forgetting, and retrieval of symbolic information. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Human Performance: Motor and intellectual capacities; analysis of the flow of information within the nervous system; applications of performance principles to human-machine systems. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Psycholinguistics: Processes and structures underlying language use. Methods of studying language processing. Relationships between psycholinguistic data and observations from linguistics and neurophysiology. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Human Neuropsychology: Integrative neural mechanisms of normal and abnormal processes in systems (e.g., selective attention, language, memory, object recognition, and emotion). Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303, 304.
Social Psychology: Processes underlying social perception and social interaction. Topics include aggression, the self-concept, stereotyping and prejudice, conformity, persuasion, attraction, and helping. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Decision Making: Examines interdependence between mind and culture in substantive domains such as social cognition, motivation, emotion, and psychopathology. Cultural pluralism, collective identities, tolerance, and diversity considered. Pre- or coreq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Advanced Social Psychology: Selects a specific topic of inquiry from social psychology (e.g., person perception, self-concept, empathy) and examines research and debates on the topic. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303, 456/556. Repeat thrice when topic changes for maximum of 16 credits.
Motivation and Emotion: Adaptive human behavior; considers biological processes involved in emotions, how emotions interact with cognition, and social influences. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Psychological Assessment: Application of psychological methods to the study of the individual; rationale of test construction and interpretation; problems in the prediction of human behavior; psychological assessment techniques. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Psychology of Trauma: Cognitive, neuropsychological, developmental, social, and clinical approaches to understanding trauma. Includes analysis of childhood trauma, sexual assault, domestic violence, terrorism, combat, and natural disasters. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Cognitive Development: Intellectual development in children from infancy to adolescence with a focus on early childhood. Topics covered include perception, attention, memory, reasoning, conceptual structure, social cognition. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
Social Development: Theoretical issues and empirical studies of social-emotional development. Topics may include attachment, temperament, moral development, family interaction, self-image, aggression, and sex-role development. Prereq: WR 121 and 122 or 123; PSY 303.
