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PSYC 110 Principles of Psychology 6 credits
This course surveys major topics in psychology. We consider the approaches different psychologists take to describe and explain behavior. We will consider a broad range of topics, including how animals learn and remember contexts and behaviors, how personality develops and influences functioning, how the nervous system is structured and how it supports mental events, how knowledge of the nervous system may inform an understanding of conditions such as schizophrenia, how people acquire, remember and process information, how psychopathology is diagnosed, explained, and treated, how infants and children develop, and how people behave in groups and think about their social environment.
- Winter 2026, Spring 2026
- SI, Social Inquiry
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PSYC 110.01 Winter 2026
- Faculty:Julie Neiworth 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 2:20pm-3:20pm
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PSYC 110.01 Spring 2026
- Faculty:Julie Neiworth 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FAnderson Hall 121 1:10pm-2:10pm
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PSYC 214 Neuropsychology of Aging 6 credits
With the aging population comes a variety of challenges, including those to cognitive health and decline. Neurodegenerative diseases create various forms of dementia and cause unique problems beyond those that are an outcome of healthy aging. This 200-level course consists of lectures and discussions explore the cognitive, behavioral, and molecular aspects of healthy aging and neurodegenerative disease processes in humans. Cognitive topics include working memory, long term memory, attention, familiarity and recollection, emotion, and social factors that interact with aging. The physiological and cognitive outcomes of neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and various types of dementia are compared with the physiology and cognitive decline evident in healthy aging. Students will read primary articles on these topics, and propose a project based on course discussion and interactions with people at senior centers and convalescent centers in Northfield.
It is recommended that students enroll concurrently in PSYC 215. A grade of C- or better must be earned in both PSYC 214 and 215 to earn the LS requirement.
Recommend Preparation: PSYC 110.
This course is not open to students who have received credit for PSYC 367.
- Fall 2025
- WR2 Writing Requirement 2
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Not open to students who have previously taken PSYC 367.
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PSYC 214.01 Fall 2025
- Faculty:Julie Neiworth 🏫 👤
- Size:32
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 9:50am-11:00am
- FAnderson Hall 121 9:40am-10:40am
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PSYC 215 Neuropsychology of Aging Lab Practicum 2 credits
This lab practicum allows students registered in either Psychology 214 Neuropsychology of Aging or Sociology/Anthropology 252 Growing Up in an Aging Society to gain experience in studies of aging and physiological measures used in testing cognition. The practicum provides hand-on work; in the lab students learn to collect electrodermal activity (EDA) and electroencephalograms, EEG, on themselves and peers so that there is a deeper understanding of the data collected in published works in aging cohorts. Moreover, there are planned weekly field trips by which students will be able to join in games and social time with elderly clients at the local convalescent centers. Students will express ideas for research or programs for elderly clients by constructing an infographic based on their experiences and readings from class, and there is a public viewing of these infographics.
It is recommended that students enroll concurrently in PSYC 214. A grade of C- or better must be earned in both PSYC 214 and 215 to earn the LS requirement.
This course is not open to students who have received credit for PSYC 368.
- Fall 2025
- LS, Science with Lab
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Student has completed or is in the process of completing any of the following course(s): PSYC 214 or SOAN 252 with grade of C- or better. Not open to students who have taken PSYC 368.
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PSYC 366 Cognitive Neuroscience 6 credits
It should be obvious that every process that goes on in the mind has physiological underpinnings. But, whether we can unlock the secrets of learning, memory, perception, language, decision-making, emotional responding, empathy, morality, social thinking, deception, and manipulation as they are supported by neurons and neural connections is a longstanding and elusive problem in psychology. Contemporary primary source articles are mostly used for this discussion-driven course, but a brief textbook/manual on brain processing is also required. The student should leave the class with a working understanding of brain processes and of contemporary theories of brain processes that may support many mental processes in humans.
- Winter 2026
- QRE, Quantitative Reasoning SI, Social Inquiry
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): PSYC 110 or BIOL 125 or PSYC 216 or NEURO 127 with a grade of C- or better or received a score of 4 or better on the Psychology AP Exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Psychology IB exam or received a score of 5 on the Biology AP exam or received a score of 6 or better on the Biology IB exam.
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PSYC 400 Integrative Exercise 3 credits
Students independently revise and extend the fall term paper, integrating the feedback from their faculty advisor. Based on this work, students submit a final comps paper (approx. 20 pages) that makes original contributions to the field of psychology through critiquing existing psychology primary sources, applying empirically-supported psychological theories to new questions, generating potential applied guidelines, and/or proposing new theories or empirical studies based on published theories and empirical research.
- Winter 2026
- No Exploration
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Student has completed any of the following course(s): PSYC 399 with grade of C- or better.