Surveys major topics in psychology: perceptions, development, personality, learning and memory, and biological bases of behavior. Students may participate as subjects for several hours in ongoing research. Meets MAPS requirement for social science: general.
Three hours of lecture and one two-hour lab per week. Introduces descriptive and inferential statistics and their roles in psychological research. Topics include correlation, regression, T-test, analysis of variance, and selected nonparametric statistics. Course is similar to PSYC 2101. Formerly PSYC 3101. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of MATH 1011 or MATH 1071 or MATH 1081 or MATH 1150 or MATH 1300 (minimum grade C-).
Examines psychological research on gender and sexuality as they intersect with race, class and other social categories. Points of emphasis include differences in cognition, attitudes, personality and social behavior. Conceptual themes include research methodologies, implicit and explicit attitudes, stigma and stereotypes. These elucidate such areas as close relationships, leadership, career success and mental health and happiness. Same as WMST 2700. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of PSYC 1001 or WMST 2000 (minimum grade C-).
Focuses on research design. Each student prepares an original, detailed research proposal, which can become the honors thesis. Open only to students who have been accepted into the psychology departmental honors program. Instructor consent required.
Provides a foundation in research methodology to give students the ability to design, conduct, analyze, and present (both verbally and in writing) an empirical study in psychology. Allows students to be effective producers and consumers of research. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of PSYC 1001 and PSYC 2111 (minimum grade C-).
Introduces students to a diverse array of theoretical and empirical issues related to the study of human emotion. Evolutionary theories of anger, love, and disgust; emotion and morality; cultural and gender differences; emotion and the brain; relation between emotion and thinking; development of emotion; and abnormal emotions in mental illness. Recommended prereq., PSYC 1001. Requisites: Restricted to students with a minimum of 45 units.
Includes outline of development of psychological theories since the Greek philosophers, the story of experimental psychology and its problems, and schools of psychological thinking. Students read original sources in English and English translations. Formerly PSYC 4511. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of PSYC 1001 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Surveys contemporary issues, explores current controversies, and examines in detail selected topics in psychology. Open to juniors and seniors pursuing departmental honors.
Critically reviews some aspect of psychological literature, scholarly analysis of a major psychological issue, and/or empirical research project. See the psychology honors director for further information.
Explores social, cognitive, psychobiological and behavioral aspects of exercise and other forms of physical activity. Examines how psychological and neuroscience research have been used to study how participation in regular physical activity affects mental health and how psychological and other variables influence participation in, adherence to, enjoyment of, and consequences of exercise and physical activity. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of PSYC 2012 or NRSC 2100 (minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Studies topics such a speech perception, word recognition, sentence comprehension, language acquisition, bilingualism, reading and writing. Examines the role of language as a product and producer of the mind, studying interactions between language and cognition from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students will become familiar with the methods of psycholinguistics and design and conduct a psycholinguistic experiment on their own. Department enforced prereqs., PSYC 1001 and LING 2000. Same as LING 4220.
Allows students to expand their powers as they think about psychological problems, or about how psychological knowledge and techniques can be applied to pressing political, economic, biological, quantitative, and social issues. Encourages intellectual discipline and critical thinking about concepts and ideas; enables students to participate in oral and written discussion. May not be repeated, only 3 credit hours allowed. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of PSYC 1001 and PSYC 2111 or PSYC 3111 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) Psychology (PSCY) majors only.
Studies and analyzes special interest topics from the broad and diversified field of psychology. Particular section content is determined by instructor. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours, provided the topics vary. Same as PSYC 5541. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of PSYC 1001 and PSYC 2111 or PSYC 3111 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Psychology (PSYC) majors only.
Examines the development of language in childhood and into adult life, emphasizing the role of environment and biological endowment in learning to communicate with words, sentences, and narratives. Department enforced prereqs., PSYC 1001 and LING 2000. Same as LING 4560 and SLHS 4560. Requisites: Restricted to Psychology (PSYC) or Neuroscience (NRSC) majors only.
Learn to critically read and form hypotheses from studies in the developmental literature, gain hands-on experience in testing children and in the design of methods to test children, evaluate experimental data and relate them to hypotheses, previous result, and theory, and write so others can understand. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of PSYC 1001 and 3684 and either PSYC 2111 (same as 3101) or PSYC 3111 (all minimum grade C-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Psychology (PSYC) majors only.
Pass/fail only. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Psychology (PSYC) majors only.
Students receive concrete experience in teaching general psychology under supervision of a psychology faculty member. Alternative pedagogical strategies are discussed. Students must submit an application to the undergraduate advising center.
Offers valuable volunteer experience through a supervised field placement. Provides hands-on insight into the decisions and issues that confront professionals in psychology and related fields. Recommended prereq., completion of 15 or more hours of psychology course work. Requisites: Restricted to Psychology (PSYC) majors only.
Core graduate course on affective science and fulfills APA Cognitive and Affective Aspects of Behavior Requirement. Introduces students to a diverse array of theoretical and empirical issues related to the study of human emotion. Evolutionary theories of emotions; cognitive and behavioral aspects of emotion; neurobiological mechanisms; development of emotion; and psychopathology and emotion. Requisites: Restricted to Psychology (PSYC) graduate students only.
Covers fundamental concepts in molecular genetics/genomics with physiological applications. Topics include structure and function of nucleic acids, genome structure, genetic and genomic research tools, methods for identifying disease-causing mutations, regulation of gene expression, pharmacogenetics, gene therapy and ethical issues in modern genomics. First course of a 3-course series recommended for IBG students. Includes a recitation section. Same as IPHY 5200. Requisites: Restricted to Integrative Physiology (IPHY or C-IPHY) or Psychology (PSYC) graduate students only.
Provides training in the use of structural equation modeling, a class of analytic techniques that include the estimation of unobserved, or latent, constructs and an estimation of relationships among latent constructs. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of PSYC 5741 and PSYC 5751 (all minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
