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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with PSYC Seminar · returned 9 results
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CGSC 336 Moral Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making 6 credits
In this seminar course we will examine how children, adolescents, and adults confront moral dilemmas, reason about ethical issues, and decide on a course of action when challenged by confounding questions. Topics include the development of moral reasoning, gender difference in moral reasoning, socio-cultural influences on moral reasoning, and how moral issues intersect with other realms of decision making. We will examine work by Lawrence Kohlberg, Carol Gilligan, Eliot Turiel, and Jonathan Haidt. As a seminar, the emphasis will be on discussion. Course requirements include regular attendance and participation, preparing and leading class discussions, short reaction/reflection papers, and a final paper.
- Fall 2021
- Social Inquiry
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Cognitive Science 130 or Cognitive Science 232, 236 or any 200-level course in Psychology or instructor consent
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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 and perception as they are supported by neurons and neural connections is a longstanding and elusive problem in psychology. Contemporary articles are the text for this discussion-driven course. The student should leave the class with a working understanding of brain processes and of contemporary theories of brain processes that may support perception, memory, language, and consciousness.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Winter 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Psychology 110 or Biology 125 or Psychology 216 or Neuroscience 127 or permission of the instructor.
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PSYC 366.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Julie Neiworth 🏫 👤
- Size:8
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 1:45pm-3:30pm
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PSYC 366.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Julie Neiworth 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 1:15pm-3:00pm
- T, THHulings B12 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PSYC 370 Behavioral Neuroimmunology 6 credits
The immune system directly influences the central nervous system and behavior during both health and disease. The course will have an emphasis on animal behavior (e.g. memory and sociability assays) and techniques in neuroimmunology that range from genetic engineering (e.g. CRISPR and DREADD) to immune cell function, detection of surface receptors, and protein expression (e.g. flow cytometry, confocal microscopy, immune cell migration assays, ELISA, and western blot.) The topics that will be covered range from how cytokines influence behavior to effects of gut microbiota in brain function and behavior. This course will primarily use empirical research that will help you develop a deeper understanding of molecular techniques, cell biology, and develop strong analytical skills of biological findings in immunology and its connection with animal behavior.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Writing Requirement
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Neuroscience 127 or Psychology 216 recommended or instructor permission
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PSYC 370.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Gisel Flores-Montoya 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THOld Music Hall 106 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PSYC 370.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Gisel Flores-Montoya 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHulings 310 7:00pm-8:45pm
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PSYC 370.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Gisel Flores-Montoya 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHulings 316 3:10pm-4:55pm
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PSYC 371 Evolutionary and Developmental Trends in Cognition 6 credits
Recent findings have brought to light some very compelling examples of humanlike cognition in nonhuman primates: tool use and tool making, family bonding, complex social behaviors such as cooperation, altruism, communication, and emotion. The study of infant cognition has also revealed more complex cognitive abilities in developing humans. Each of these topics is considered in the context of the cognitive workings of the primate mind, with emphases on apes (gorilla, chimpanzee), monkeys (particularly cebus and rhesus varieties) and human children. The goal is to evaluate the uniqueness of primate cognition, both human and nonhuman.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2022
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Psychology 110 or Biology 126 or Psychology 216 or instructor permission
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PSYC 375 Language and Deception 6 credits
In this course we will examine deception and persuasion in language use. We will take up three main issues. The first is what it means to deceive and how people deceive others through language. What methods do they use, and how do these methods work? The second issue is why people deceive. What purposes do their deceptions serve in court, in advertising, in bureaucracies, in business transactions, and in everyday face-to-face conversation? The third issue is the ethics of deception. Is it legitimate to deceive others, and if so, when and why?
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Psychology 232, 234, 238 or Cognitive Science 236.
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PSYC 375.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Mija Van Der Wege 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THOld Music Hall 107 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PSYC 379 Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 6 credits
This seminar will focus on the biological and psychological components of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. We will also address the possible causes of these disorders, and examine some current controversies surrounding diagnosis and treatment.
- Fall 2018, Spring 2021, Winter 2022
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Psychology 110
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PSYC 379.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Lawrence Wichlinski 🏫 👤 · Staff
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center M104 10:20am-12:05pm
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PSYC 379.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Lawrence Wichlinski 🏫 👤 · Staff
- Size:30
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:10am-11:55am
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PSYC 382 Topics in Social and Personality: Endings 6 credits
This seminar will examine the psychology of endings, including endings associated with psychotherapy, social interactions, personal relationships, social roles, literature and the arts, and life itself. We will address when and how endings occur, how we experience endings, and what makes an ending a good or poor one, among other issues.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Social Inquiry
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Psychology 252, 256, 258, or instructor permission
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PSYC 384 Psychology of Prejudice 6 credits
This seminar introduces students to major psychological theories and research on the development, perpetuation and reduction of prejudice. A social and historical approach to race, culture, ethnicity and race relations will provide a backdrop for examining psychological theory and research on prejudice formation and reduction. Major areas to be discussed are cognitive social learning, group conflict and contact hypothesis.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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Psychology 110 or instructor permission. Psychology 256 or 258 recommended
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PSYC 384.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Sharon Akimoto 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THOld Music Hall 103 10:10am-11:55am
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PSYC 384.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Sharon Akimoto 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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PSYC 386 Intervention Science: Using Psychology to Advance Social Good 6 credits
Many of the most pressing issues facing our world today, including prejudice/discrimination, climate change, health, conflict, and polarization/radicalization, ultimately stem from human behavior. As a science centrally focused on human behavior, psychology is well-poised to contribute meaningfully to developing solutions to these and other issues. In this class, we will review the rapidly expanding literature on intervention science, which involves employing psychological concepts and principles to change real-world outcomes. We will also study relevant behavioral science and motivational theories, as well as examining how findings from the lab can be translated to real-world applications. Students will also complete a final project that will involve conducting their own intervention experiment in the field. Students will leave the class equipped to use their knowledge of behavioral science to effect change in the real world to address the issues they care about.
- Spring 2022
- Social Inquiry
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Psychology 110 or instructor consent