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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with PSYC Upper Level · returned 13 results
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CGSC 382 Cognitive Development in Children and Adolescents 6 credits
This seminar will focus on the cognitive changes experienced by children in the preschool, elementary, and middle school years, in such realms as perception, attention, memory, thinking, decision-making, knowledge representation, and the acquisition of academic skills. Weekly observation at local day care centers or schools will be a required course component. The seminar will be discussion-based and participants will take turns making presentations and leading discussions.
- Winter 2023
- Social Inquiry
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Psychology 250, Cognitive Science 232, Psychology 232 or instructor consent
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PSYC 318 Psychopharmacology 6 credits
This course will cover the major categories of drugs that possess psychoactive properties, with an emphasis on their effects on the nervous system. In addition, drug use and abuse in a larger societal context will be examined.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2020, Winter 2023
- Social Inquiry
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Psychology 216 or instructor permission
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PSYC 318.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Lawrence Wichlinski 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WAnderson Hall 323 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FAnderson Hall 323 1:10pm-2:10pm
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PSYC 318.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Lawrence Wichlinski 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WAnderson Hall 323 11:10am-12:20pm
- FAnderson Hall 323 12:00pm-1:00pm
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PSYC 354 Counseling Psychology 6 credits
An introduction to theories, research, techniques, and issues in the field of counseling psychology. This course will be run as a seminar.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Winter 2024
- Social Inquiry
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Psychology 110 or instructor permission.
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PSYC 354.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THOlin 102 10:10am-11:55am
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PSYC 354.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THOlin 103 10:10am-11:55am
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PSYC 354.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THOld Music Hall 103 10:10am-11:55am
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PSYC 354.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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PSYC 354.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 10:10am-11:55am
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PSYC 354.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THOlin 102 10:10am-11:55am
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PSYC 354.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THOlin 106 10:10am-11:55am
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PSYC 358 Cross-Cultural Psychology Seminar in Prague: Psychopathology 6 credits
In the West mental illness has traditionally been approached with a biomedical model that views it as independent of culture. By contrast the “relativist” position assumes that, to a large extent, human behaviors are culturally determined and that the etiology and manifestation of mental disorders are affected by society and culture. This course will address such issues as well as their implications for assessment and treatment through an examination of several Western and non-Western societies, with a special emphasis on Czech society. There will be several guest lectures by Czech psychology professors as well as excursions within Prague to psychiatric hospitals and clinics, where students will meet with Czech clinicians and patients.
OCS Cross Cultural Psychology in Prague
- Fall 2018, Fall 2021, Fall 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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Acceptance in Cross-Cultural Studies in Prague program
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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 367 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. The disabling effects of aging and dementia extend beyond the person to family, friends and wider community. The need to understand and extend knowledge of both healthy aging and the pathological changes that occur with neurodegenerative diseases with aging is of great importance. By understanding how the brain is impacted by age, dementia, and other clinical syndromes, both management of the cognitive issues and advances in treatments to improve mental functioning can be made. This course takes a neuropsychological approach to study healthy aging and neurodegenerative disease. In this seminar, 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.
Extra Time
- Fall 2019, Fall 2022
- Social Inquiry
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Neuroscience 127 or Psychology 216 or Psychology 110 or instructor permission
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PSYC 367.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Julie Neiworth 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THOld Music Hall 103 1:15pm-3:00pm
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PSYC 367.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Julie Neiworth 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WAnderson Hall 121 9:50am-11:00am
- FAnderson Hall 121 9:40am-10:40am
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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