PSYCHOLOGY

CRN	90256	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 103 A
Title	General Introduction To Psychology
Professor	Frank Scalzo
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 204

The course is designed to be a broad survey of the academic discipline of psychology. The text for the course, and therefore the course, is organized around five main questions: How do humans (and, where relevant, other animals) act; how do they know; how do they interact; how do they develop; and how do they differ from each other? Students are responsible for learning the material in the text without an oral repetition of the material in class.

CRN	90270	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 103 B
Title	General Introduction To Psychology
Professor	Sharon Hannigan
Schedule	Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 101

See description above.

CRN	90271	Distribution	C/E
Course No.	PSY 111
Title	Introduction to Child Development
Professor	TBA
Schedule	Mon Wed 10:00 am - 11:20 am PRE 128

This course is a survey course of childhood development. From a psychological perspective, we will examine the cognitive, social, and motor development of children from infancy through middle childhood. The course itself is divided into three sections. In the first section, we will introduce the psychological theories of cognitive, social and motor development, which will serve as the theoretical foundation of the course. We will also examine the biological and environmental underpinnings of development, prenatal development, and birth. The second section of the course will cover development in infancy, and the final section of the course will cover early and middle childhood development

CRN	90245	Distribution	C/E
Course No.	PSY 115
Title	Introduction to Social Psychology
Professor	David Lopez
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm LC 115

A consideration of how we experience ourselves and come to know others, how our attitudes and behavior are influenced by other people, and how our identities are institutionally mediated. How do we form and maintain conceptions of ourselves? How do we form and maintain impressions of others? What are the fallibilities of human reason in everyday life? What are the challenges we face in our pursuit of happiness? What role does physical beauty play in attraction? What factors promote conformity, compliance, and obedience? What is injustice, and how do people resist it in their daily lives? Under what conditions are some people likely to aid a person in distress? How are we affected by features of the physical environment around us?

CRN	90258	Distribution	E/G
Course No.	PSY 203 Q Course
Title	Introduction to Statistics and Research Design
Professor	Eve Waltermaurer
Schedule	Mon Wed 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm OLIN 202 Th 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm HDR 101A Fr 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm HDR 101A

This course is required before Moderation for psychology majors. The requirement of Psychology 203 and 204 cannot be met by courses taken elsewhere unless the student successfully passes tests based on these courses as they are taught at Bard. This is the first semester of a one-year, integrated course in applied statistics and research design and is offered only in the fall semester. In this semester we emphasize experimental research and parametric models, while the second-semester course focuses on correlational research and non-parametric models. The purpose of the year-long course is to prepare students to work seriously with quantitative data and to introduce them to the fundamental concepts of research design. The first semester includes elementary descriptive and inferential statistics from t-tests through contrasts and the analysis of covariance. It covers the rationale of basic concepts, their application, and the presentation of the results of statistical analyses; the fundamentals of the logic of experimental design and methods for controlling the effects of relevant variables; and enough computer usage to permit use of experimental software programs and independent use of the SPSS/PC+ statistical analysis package. In addition, we will use a segment of the PBS tele-course "Against All Odds" as an introduction and warm-up activity for most class meetings. Any student planning a concentration in psychology must have adequate mathematical skills (basic arithmetic and algebra) before enrolling in this course. Those with a weakness in basic mathematics should enroll in appropriate courses during their freshman year.

CRN	90535	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 228
Title	An Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Professor	Sharon Hannigan
Schedule	Mon Wed 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm PRE 128

How do people acquire information? And once information is acquired, what happens to it? Does it sit, still, in the mind/brain? Or does it change, either knowingly or unknowingly? If information in the brain changes with time, how might that change come about and to what end? This course is about how people perceive, remember, and think about information. The major topics that will be covered include object recognition, memory, concept formation, language, visual knowledge, judgment, reasoning, problem solving, and conscious and unconscious thought. In addition, we will consider the neural underpinnings of these topics where possible.

Prerequisite: one introductory psychology course.

CRN	90272	Distribution	C
Course No.	PSY 233
Title	Exploring Boundaries of Self
Professor	Christie Achebe
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 203

How a given society conceptualizes the notion of the self has implications for the perception of agency, and the attribution of responsibility in its therapeutic (helping) process. This course takes an excursion into the boundaries of the self from a "western", "non-western" and "women's" perspectives using research findings, cross disciplinary and cross-cultural readings (psychology , psychological anthropology, religion) to explore the issues. It will then critically examine the implications of the explanatory models for counseling in a multicultural society.

CRN	90257	Distribution	C/E
Course No.	PSY 252
Title	Drugs and Human Behavior
Professor	Frank Scalzo
Schedule	Mon Wed 8:30 am - 9:50 am OLIN 201

This course will explore the biological bases for the behavioral effects of several psychoactive substances including therapeutic compounds, such as antipsychotics and antidepressants, and drugs of abuse. The course will focus on mechanisms of drug action and physiological and behavioral effects. Broader societal issues such as drug addiction, drug policies and drug testing, and controversial therapeutic interventions will be discussed in relation to selected compounds.

CRN	90255	Distribution	C/E
Course No.	PSY 255
Title	Cross-Cultural Human Development
Professor	David Lopez
Schedule	Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 305

Psychology has often been criticized for ignoring the influence of culture on development. However, one area of psychology which has consistently investigated the impact of culture on human behavior is life-span developmental psychology. This course will examine the nature of culture as an environmental context within which development occurs. We will examine cross-cultural research from two different perspectives. First we will examine cross-national comparisons. Second, we will examine subcultures within a larger, dominant culture. Specific questions to be addressed include: How generalizable are our contemporary models of social and cognitive development? Does culture influence all aspects of development in the same way? This course will have a strong emphasis on empirical investigations of cultural variability in development. Familiarity with both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies is essential .

Prerequisite: an introductory Social Studies course.

CRN	90273	Distribution	A/C
Course No.	PSY 292
Title	Perspectives on Racial Identity Development: Counseling Considerations
Professor	Christie Achebe
Schedule	Tu Th 3:00 pm - 4:20 pm OLIN 107

Cross-listed: MES

Related interest: AADS

It is often assumed that "racial group membership alone dictates how people will react in and out of counseling(therapy), respond to specific interventions or show preference for type of co cunselor (therapist)." Are our assumptions static in this regard or can they evince a fluidity and dynamism that are determined by a lifetime of shifting personal and historical experiences? What lens do we use to define and understand how individuals and groups develop and negotiate their identities in a complex society? How can knowledge of identity development models help us look beyond the putative factor of racial group knowledge so that we can avoid misunderstanding, misdiagnosing and misinterpreting other peoples' behavior? What can these models contribute to the mediation of conflict between groups? We will start by examining the foundations and recent configurations of racial identity development models, along with associated conceptual problems, terminological shifts and semantic confusions. This will be followed by a discussion of the social and psychological processes that cut across the various identity group profiles and an inquiry into whether these models can be extended and applied to other social categories such as gender and sexual orientation. Throughout the discussion we will focus on the interplay among the dimensions of social identity, generic ego identity and unique individualfactors.? These and related issues will be addressed with particular attention to AfricanAmerican,Latino(a), Asian American, Multiracial and White Identity Development Profiles.

Prerequisite: One previous course in a related social studies field.

CRN	90268	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 302 DL
Title	Social Psychology & Education
Professor	David Lopez
Schedule	Wed 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PRE 101

How do we learn? How do we explain our academic successes and failures? Why do smart people sometimes fail? What role do teachers play in facilitating (or hindering) achievement? How can we intervene to enhance "at risk" students' low achievement? These issues are typically thought of as germane to either educational or developmental psychology. However, social psychologists have examined these and a variety of other educational issues for decades. Interestingly, the field's research and thinking about educational issues has been largely ignored in contemporary synopses of the field.. This Major Conference will explore the social psychological study of education with a strong emphasis on empirical investigation. Familiarity with research methods and statistics is required. For students moderated in psychology or those with appropriate background.

CRN	90536	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 329
Title	Human Memory
Professor	Sharon Hannigan
Schedule	Thur 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm OLIN 308

The focus of this course will be on memory from a cognitive perspective. We will first review classic findings regarding the fundamental workings of human memory. We will then discuss contemporary findings that lend support to the idea of separate, yet interdependent, systems of memory. In addition, we will examine cognitive/neural models that have been developed to account for some of these findings. Another major focus of the course will be "memory illusions". These occur when people confidently remember things that never actually happened. Many of the classes this semester will center on specific memory illusions that are currently topics of intensive research. We will try to understand why these memory illusions occur, and what they tell us about normal memory. This course requires some background in psychology and a basic familiarity with research methods. It will fulfill a research conference requirement for moderated psychology students.

CRN	90269	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY 347
Title	Brain Mechanisms and Addictive Behavior
Professor	Frank Scalzo
Schedule	Tu 8:45 am - 10:15 am PRE 101 Wed 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm LC 120

Rapid strides have been made recently in our understanding of the neurological underpinnings of addiction. This research conference will begin with a brief history of our understanding of the mechanisms of brain reward systems and how the findings in this area have led to modern concepts of addictive behavior. An in-depth analysis will be made of contemporary theoretical and neurobiological approaches to conceptualizing and treating addictive behaviors, particularly drug abuse . Some consideration will be given to the extension of the addiction concept to such behaviors as gambling, eating, sexual activity and others. Primary source journal articles will be used in addition to excerpts from texts, and thus familiarity with research methods and statistics is required. Students will be expected to make frequent presentations in class. Enrollment is limited to students moderated in psychology or biology or those with appropriate background.

CRN	90774	Distribution	E
Course No.	PSY NEU
Title	Independent Research in Neuroscience
Professor	Frank Scalzo
Schedule	By arrangement

Laboratory research in developmental psychopharmacology, neurochemistry, neuroanatomy and/or neurobehavioral teratology, examining the roles of specific neurotransmitter systems in normal behavioral development and the effects of chemical insults during early development on these neurotransmitter systems. This course will consist of weekly laboratory meetings, readings, presentations, and will emphasize laboratory research work. Open to all students with consent of instructor.