Course |
PSY COG Independent Research:Cognitive Psychology |
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Professor |
Barbara Luka |
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CRN |
18234 |
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Schedule |
Th 2:30 -4:30 pm . |
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Distribution |
Laboratory Science |
Cross-listed: Cognitive Science
(2 credits) This course provides an
opportunity for guided research in psycholinguistics. You will contribute to
ongoing studies of language comprehension, including preparing stimuli, working
with participants, analyzing collected data, reviewing recently published empirical
papers, and developing your independent project. Requirements include
consistent participation in weekly lab meetings and two short papers (a
literature review and a summary of your empirical project). Open to first-year,
second-year and junior students with consent of the instructor. (This course may be repeated for a maximum
of 8 credits and must be taken twice to fulfill the Laboratory Science
distribution requirement.) On-line
registration
Course |
PSY DEV Independent Research in Developmental Psychology |
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Professor |
Sarah Lopez-Duran |
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CRN |
18233 |
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Schedule |
Th 2:30 -4:30 pm . |
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Distribution |
Laboratory Science |
Cross-listed: Cognitive Science
(2 credits) In this course, students will participate in
laboratory research in child developmental psychology. Special emphasis will be
placed on 3- to 5-year olds' social cognition, perspective-taking, and memory
in the context of games. The majority of time in this course will consist of
independent laboratory work and research, and students will work with young
children, parents, and members of the community to initiate research protocols
in our Preston-based laboratory . There will be a weekly laboratory meeting, readings,
assignments, two short papers (a literature review and a summary of your
empirical project) and student presentations. Open to first-year, second-year
and junior students with consent of the instructor. (This course may be
repeated for a maximum of 8 credits and must be taken twice to fulfill the
Laboratory Science distribution requirement.)
On-line
registration
Course |
PSY NEU Independent Research in Neuroscience |
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Professor |
Frank Scalzo |
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CRN |
18235 |
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Schedule |
Th 2:30 -4:30 pm . |
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Distribution |
Laboratory Science |
Cross-listed: Cognitive Science
(2 credits) In this course, students will participate in
laboratory research in developmental psychopharmacology, behavioral neuroscience,
neuroanatomy and/or neurobehavioral teratology using the zebrafish as an animal
model. Within these general fields, specific roles of neurotransmitter systems
in normal behavioral development and the neurobehavioral effects of chemical
insults during early development will be investigated. The majority of time in this course will
consist of independent laboratory work and research. There will be a weekly
laboratory meeting, readings, assignments, two short papers (a literature
review and a summary of your empirical project) and student presentations. Open
to first-year, second-year and junior students with consent of the instructor
(this course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits and must be taken twice
to fulfill the Laboratory Science distribution requirement). On-line registration
Course |
PSY SOC Independent Research in Social Psychology |
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Professor |
Kristin Lane |
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CRN |
18236 |
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Schedule |
Th 2:30 -4:30 pm . |
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Distribution |
Laboratory Science |
Cross-listed:
Cognitive Science
(2 credits)
This course provides hands-on experience in the practice of Social Psychology.
Students will work individually and in teams on ongoing and student-initiated
research projects in the Social Psychology Laboratory. The realm of topics to
be studied includes the roots of unconscious bias, perceptions and judgments of
social distance, and the gender disparity in the sciences. Students will
participate in all phases of the research process, including developing
stimuli, programming studies, conducting experimental sessions, and coding and
analyzing research data. Requirements include attendance at weekly lab
meetings, two papers, a lab presentation, and other assignments throughout the
semester. Enrollment is open to first-, second-, and third-year students
with the permission of the instructor. (This course may be taken for a maximum
of eight credits and must be taken twice to fulfill the Laboratory Science
distribution requirement.) On-line registration
Course |
PSY 103 A Introduction to Psychology |
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Professor |
Kristin Lane |
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CRN |
18237 |
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Schedule |
Mon
Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am RKC 102 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
Cross-listed: Cognitive Science
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. On-line registration
Course |
PSY 103 B Introduction to Psychology |
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Professor |
Barton Meyers |
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CRN |
18238 |
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Schedule |
TuTh 10:30 - 11:50 am RKC 101 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
See description above. On-line registration
Course |
PSY / CMSC / PHIL 131 Cognitive Science |
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Professor |
Sven Anderson |
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CRN |
18131 |
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Schedule |
Mon
Wed 9:00 - 10:20 am RKC 103 LAB
A: Fr 9:00 - 11:00 am RKC 107 LAB
B: Fr
1:00 -3:00 pm RKC 107 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
See CMSC section for description.
Course |
PSY 204 Research Methods in Psychology |
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Professor |
Sarah Lopez-Duran |
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CRN |
18267 |
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Schedule |
Mon
Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am Olin 101 LAB
A: Tu
1:00 -3:00 pm HDR 101A |
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Distribution |
Laboratory Science |
This course is a continuation of Psychology 203. Its
objectives are to extend the skills and abilities students acquired in the fall
semester, and to provide an introduction to the research methods and data
analyses used in the study of psychology. Students will gain an understanding
of research methods and design through a combination of readings, lectures,
class discussions, and hands-on laboratory experience. Students will work both individually and in
groups to design and conduct observational studies, surveys, and
experiments. There will be a strong
emphasis on learning to present research results in different ways. Ethical issues will be discussed at each
stage of the research process, and students will develop their ability to
assess research critically. This course has a choice of labs. See below.
. On-line registration
Course |
PSY 204 Research Methods in Psychology |
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Professor |
Sarah Lopez-Duran |
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CRN |
18268 |
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Schedule |
Mon
Wed 10:30 - 11:50 am Olin 101 LAB
B: Wed 1:30 -3:30 pm HDR
101A |
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Distribution |
Laboratory Science |
This course has a choice of labs. See above. . On-line
registration
Course |
PSY 229 Social Cognition |
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Professor |
Kristin Lane |
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CRN |
18240 |
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Schedule |
Mon
Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm RKC 102 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
How do we think about people? In this course,
we will explore how people reason about and understand both other people and
themselves. Topics to be covered include memory about people, impression formation,
attitudes and stereotypes, development of the social self, the development of
social thought, and automatic social behavior. Throughout the course, we will
consider whether thinking about people is an extension of more general modes of
thought that are simply applied to people, or whether thinking and reasoning
about people comprise a unique set of psychological processes. Readings will
include classic and current readings in social cognition, including original
empirical papers and work from the emergent field of social cognitive
neuroscience. Prerequisite: Students must have completed PSY
103 (Introduction to Psychology). PSY 203 or 204 are recommended but not
required. On-line
registration
Course |
PSY 241 Abnormal Psychology |
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Professor |
Richard Gordon |
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CRN |
18239 |
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Schedule |
Tu 9:30 – 11:50 am OLIN 309 / PRE 110 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
This course provides an intensive introduction to
the clinical description, causes and treatments of psychological disorders.
Included will be a discussion of various anxiety disorders (for example,
phobias, panic, obsessive-compulsive disorder), somatoform disorders
(hypochondria, body dysmorphic disorder), eating disorders (anorexia and
bulimia nervosa), schizophrenic disorders, personality disorders, mood
disorders (depression, bipolar disorder), and substance abuse/dependence.
There will be an emphasis on current approaches to treatment (especially
cognitive- behavioral therapies and psychopharmaceuticals), as well as a
spectrum of causal factors, ranging from social and interpersonal
influences to problems in brain functioning. Requirements will include
papers on research studies as well as a midterm and final exam. Prerequisite: General
Introduction to Psychology. On-line registration
Course |
PSY 248 Human Memory |
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Professor |
Barbara Luka |
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CRN |
18241 |
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Schedule |
Mon
Wed 12:00 -1:20 pm Olin 204 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
Cross-listed:
Cognitive Science
Memory is fundamental to all aspects of learning
and behavior in all animal species.
However, the study of human memory presents a special case because
humans use language. Language provides
a unique mechanism for encoding and retrieving memories, but language also
biases memory. This course is an
overview of classic theories and current research in human learning and
memory. We will evaluate models of
memory, including debates on the cognitive representations of knowledge. We
will also examine the role of awareness in memory, false memory, the biological
bases of memory, diseases and disorders of memory, and methods for brain
imaging. Prerequisite: 100 level course in Psychology or Biology or
permission of the instructor. On-line registration
Course |
PSY 252 Drugs and Human Behavior |
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Professor |
Frank Scalzo |
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CRN |
18242 |
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Schedule |
Wed
Fr 9:00 - 10:20 am Olin 202 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
Cross-listed: Cognitive Science,
Science, Technology & Society
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.
Prerequisite:
An introductory Psychology or Biology course, or consent of the
instructor. On-line registration
Course |
PSY 256 Psycholinguistics |
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Professor |
Barbara Luka |
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CRN |
18243 |
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Schedule |
TuTh 9:00 - 10:20 am Olin 204 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
Cross-listed:
Cognitive Science
This course is an
introduction to the field of psycholinguistics: the study of the relationship
between language and cognition. Its
main goal is to develop a deeper understanding of this relationship, examining
the following questions: How is
language represented, processed, and acquired?
What is the relationship between language as a social construct and
cognitive processes embodied in individual language users? What do the patterns of language breakdown
tell us about linguistic representation and normal language processing? What experimental methods are used to study
the relationship between language and the brain? The course will address
research areas relevant to psychology, linguistics, philosophy, computer
science, and neuroscience. On-line registration
Course |
PSY
267 Introduction to School
Counseling: Multicultural Perspective |
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Professor |
Christie Achebe |
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CRN |
18496 |
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Schedule |
Tu Th
10:30 – 11:50 am Olin 302 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
Introduction to School Counseling: Multicultural
Perspective
The rapidly changing demographics of our schools
and communities reflect a broadening of the cultural architecture of America. How
education and psychology continue to handle the ramifications for this diverse
landscape of children is the challenge of the future. This course examines the
efforts of schools to make the existing K-12 school counseling programs more
comprehensive, developmental, preventive, data- driven and culturally
responsive to the needs of all children. The position statement of the American
School Counselors Association , (ASCA 2003) will be used as a template to
explore the skills and processes
counselors need to accomplish their
expanded leadership, collaborative, system change, advocacy and social justice roles . On-line
registration
Course |
PSY 348 The Man and the Experiment that Shocked the World: Work and Legacy of Stanley Milgram |
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Professor |
Stuart Levine |
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CRN |
18245 |
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Schedule |
Mon 3:00 -6:00 pm . |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
Cross-listed:
Human Rights, Science, Technology & Society
The title for this course is taken from the title of
a recent biography of Stanley Milgram authored by Thomas Blass, a professor of
social psychology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County campus. It has
now been forty years since the original work of Stanley Milgram demonstrated
the remarkable and unpredicted finding that large numbers of individuals in
multiple samples of American men and women studied were willing to punish
another person when ordered to do so by an experimenter. The prominence of the
initial work and the continued salience of such study in social psychology
cannot be over-stated. In a review of the personal and situational determinants
of obedient behavior in the "Milgram design" format, Thomas Blass
(1991) lists as many as 200 references. It could well be that 100 more have appeared
since the Blass review. Beside the volume of studies conducted and the attempts
at review and theorizing, the domain of the "Milgram" study is worthy
of continuing interest not only because of the vastness of both criticism and
praise to which the work was subjected but because of events of our current
time. These suggest that the continuing study of obedience phenomena is
necessary and that social scientists should likely find a way to safely and
ethically investigate the conditions which promote destructive obedience. This
is an upper college seminar which serves as a Research Conference for
psychology majors but is not limited to psychology or even social
studies majors. The single criterion for membership is a willingness to read
with care. A portion of the work contained in the body of the obedience
literature will be reviewed from the perspective of trying to assess the
continuing status of the phenomenon and the explanations and understandings
that have been brought to light. On-line registration
Course |
PSY 358 Preschoolers’ Thinking: Cognitive Development Between 2 - 5 Years of Age |
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Professor |
Sarah Lopez-Duran |
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CRN |
18246 |
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Schedule |
Th 9:30 - 11:50 am Olin 309 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
Cross-listed:
Cognitive Science
The primary focus of this course will be the
cognitive developmental underpinnings of children’s burgeoning concepts about
the social and biological world around them. Children undergo enormous changes
in their thinking in the years before they enter school, and these changes have
alternately been described as continuous and discontinuous, qualitative and
quantitative in nature. In particular, a large amount of research has targeted
children’s “theory of mind”, or the understanding that outward behaviors are
caused by internal states (thoughts, beliefs), and not necessarily the actual
state of affairs. Does a 3-year old understand that two people can have
different perceptions of the same experience? When do children realize that
thoughts and dreams can’t be touched, the way a toy can? Our discussions will
focus on readings from empirical papers, theoretical essays, and books. Open to
third and fourth year students with consent of the instructor. On-line registration
Course |
PSY
362 Racial and Cultural
Considerations in Counseling and
Psychotherapy |
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Professor |
Christie Achebe |
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CRN |
18497 |
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Schedule |
Thur 1:30 – 3:50 pm Olin 302 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
Cross-listed: SRE
Each of us is embedded in a matrix. We interact
with one another from our racial and cultural perspective. As mental health
professionals our race and culture impact how we do therapy and how our clients
respond to us. Partly because we lack a consensus on an operational definition
of race in counseling research, we have sometimes fallen short of integrating
race into the therapy process when appropriate. For race and cultural factors
to be meaningful in our work so we can understand one another, this course will
explore a typology that handles race and culture as psychological variables. A
projected consequence of the increase and shifts in the society’s demographic
profile is the likelihood that more non-white therapists might be counseling
white clients, those with similar racial and cultural characteristics and other
diverse groups. This dynamic calls for an examination of the following: a
conceptual rationale capable of integrating racial and cultural material into
existing theoretical orientations and process research in therapist client
matching, effect of communication style difference, effect of the stage of
Ethnic Identity of client and therapist, effect of difference in the
therapeutic relationship, differential attribution of sources of client’s problems,
therapist credibility and competence, strategies for moderating differences in
cultural values/assumptions, worldview and the development of culturally
appropriate interventions. We will engage all this through examining research
studies, writing reflective response papers and in experiential activities.
Course |
PSY 391 Psychobiology of Stress and Mental Illness |
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Professor |
Frank Scalzo |
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CRN |
18500 |
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Schedule |
Thur 9:30 – 11:50 am RKC 200 |
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Distribution |
Social Science |
Cross-listed:
Cognitive Science
Recent advances in the understanding of the
neurobiology and physiology of stress have changed the way stress is viewed,
both as a primary phenomenon and as a secondary factor that precipitates or
causes a variety of psychiatric disorders. The latter include phobias, panic
disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder,
depression and schizophrenia. This research conference will examine
recent findings on the mechanisms and biological
consequences of stress and will explore links between these effects and
psychiatric disorders as reported in journal articles. Students will be
expected to read and develop critiques of these articles as well as make class
presentations. This seminar is intended
for students who have moderated in psychology or biology, but is open to
students with suitable background. On-line
registration