1100. General Psychology I
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Basic principles that underlie mental processes and behavior; research methodology, biopsychology, sensation, perception, learning, memory and language. Ordinarily this course should be taken in the fall semester. CA 3.
View Classes »1101. General Psychology II
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Psychology as a social science. Research methodology, developmental, personality, clinical, abnormal and social psychology. CA 2.
View Classes »1103. General Psychology II (Enhanced)
4.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Psychology as a social science. Research methodology, developmental, personality, clinical, abnormal and social psychology. Applications of theory, writing, and demonstrations during discussion periods. CA 2.
View Classes »2100Q. Principles of Research in Psychology
4.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Design, analysis, and reporting of psychological research. Experimental and quasi-experimental designs, laboratory and correlational techniques, research ethics.
View Classes »2100WQ. Principles of Research in Psychology
4.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Design, analysis, and reporting of psychological research. Experimental and quasi-experimental designs, laboratory and correlational techniques, research ethics.
View Classes »2101. Introduction to Multicultural Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
General introduction to cross-cultural and multicultural issues and the role psychology has played in understanding the experiences of diverse groups. CA 4.
View Classes »2110. Psychology of Human Sexuality
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Sexuality from across psychological science, highlighting relevant theoretical perspectives, methodology, and empirical research.
View Classes »2200. Physiological Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Physiological processes related to motivation, emotion, sensory processes, motor skills, learning, and psychiatric conditions.
View Classes »2201. Drugs And Behavior
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
An overview of drug effects on chemical transmission in the nervous system, with an emphasis on the behavioral/psychological effects of drugs.
View Classes »2208. Sensory Systems Neuroscience
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Cellular, circuit, and neural systems basis of sensation and perception including evolutionary and ecological differences among mammals.
View Classes »2209. Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Neurobiological basis of learning and memory, including topics in genetics, evolution and ethology.
View Classes »2300. Abnormal Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Nature of abnormal behavior, theories and data regarding symptoms, etiology, treatment and prevention of mental disorders.
View Classes »2301. The Study of Personality
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Theories, methods, and research in both clinical and experimental approaches to personality.
View Classes »2400. Developmental Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Social behavior, personality, perception, cognition, language, intelligence, learning, biobehavioral processes, and research methodology in developmental perspective.
View Classes »2500. Learning
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Learning and memory principles found in animal research and their relationship to human behavior. Human and other species' specific types of unique learning abilities.
View Classes »2501. Cognitive Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Different views of mental representation and processes involved in memory, language comprehension, perception, attention, and problem solving. Historical development of models in cognitive psychology.
View Classes »2502. Science of Learning and Art of Scientific Communication
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Honors Credit
Lecture, discussion, and team-based presentations related to the principles of learning and the essentials of scientific communication.
View Classes »2600. Industrial/Organizational Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Applications of psychology in the workplace: Measurement, personnel decisions, performance appraisal, training, motivation, worker attitudes, leadership, ergonomics and job design, workplace health and safety.
View Classes »2700. Social Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Attitudes, social cognition, social influence, interpersonal relations, group dynamics.
View Classes »2701. Social Psychology of Multiculturalism
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Introduction to theoretical perspectives and behavioral research that seek to explain the nature and mechanisms of intergroup relations and the psychology of culture, prejudice, and biased behavior. CA 4.
View Classes »3100. The History and Systems of Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Philosophical and scientific origins and major schools, including structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, gestalt, and psychoanalysis.
View Classes »3100W. The History and Systems of Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Philosophical and scientific origins and major schools, including structuralism, functionalism, behaviorism, gestalt, and psychoanalysis.
View Classes »3101. Psychological Testing
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Practical and theoretical interpretation of common personality, industrial, educational, cognitive, and attitude tests. Evaluating utility, test bias, and error. Using tests in clinical, educational, and workplace settings.
View Classes »3102. Psychology of Women
Gender roles, socialization, women and work, women's relationships, violence against women, and other topics. Theory and research. CA 4.
View Classes »3104E. Environmental Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Reciprocal relationships between built and natural environments and human behavior.
View Classes »3105. Health Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
The interface between psychology and health is examined using a biopsychosocial model. Topics include stress and coping, health promotion, adjustment to chronic illness, and the psychology of health behaviors
View Classes »3106. Black Psychology
Empirical and theoretical literature on psychological experiences of African Americans. Impact of race, culture, and ethnicity on psychological development. CA 4.
View Classes »3107. Latinx Psychology
Empirical and theoretical literature on psychological experiences of Latino Americans. Impact of race, culture, and ethnicity on psychological development.
View Classes »3201. Animal Behavior
Principles of animal behavior derived from a review of descriptive and analytic studies in laboratory and field. Sometimes offered in multimedia format.
View Classes »3241. Motivation and Emotion
Cognition, brain mechanisms, biofeedback, aggression, sex, competence, social influence, and conformity.
View Classes »3250W. Laboratory in Animal Behavior and Learning
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
A laboratory course to supplement PSYC 3201.
View Classes »3251. Laboratory in Physiological Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Techniques employed in experimental investigation of the anatomical and physiological bases of behavior.
View Classes »3252. Drugs and Behavior Laboratory
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Techniques employed in the experimental investigation of drug action. Laboratory exercises illustrate behavioral and neural effects of various psychoactive pharmacological agents such as stimulants, antipsychotics, antidepressants, antiparkinsonian drugs, anxiolytics, sedative/hypnotics.
View Classes »3253. Sensory Neuroscience Laboratory
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Techniques employed in the experimental investigation of sensory neuroscience. Laboratory exercises in psychophysics and assessment of human and animal sensory abilities. Elementary computer programming is used to synthesize and process sound files and analyze psychophysics data. A one-hour lecture and two two-hour labs each week.
View Classes »3270. Current Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience
3.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Graded
Selected topics vary with each offering (e.g., The Neurobiology of Memory and Decision-Making, Sensory Coding and Decoding, Animal Models of Basal Ganglia Dysfunction, Animal Models of Developmental Disorders).
View Classes »3300. Abnormal Child Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Theory, research, treatment, and prevention in developmental psychopathology from infancy through adolescence.
View Classes »3301. Introduction to Clinical Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
History of clinical psychology as a profession; graduate training and ethical responsibilities; assessment and treatment of psychological disorders; and clinical sub-specialities.
View Classes »3370W. Current Topics in Clinical Psychology
3.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Graded
3405. Social Development
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Social development in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Theoretical approaches and practical applications. Special emphasis on critically evaluating empirical research.
View Classes »3440. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Survey of current research and methods in developmental cognitive neuroscience, an interdisciplinary scientific field at the boundaries of neuroscience, developmental psychology, and cognitive science.
View Classes »3450W. Laboratory in Developmental Psychology
4.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
The techniques necessary for performing psychological research on young children; advanced topics.
View Classes »3470. Current Topics in Developmental Psychology
3.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Graded
Selected topics (e.g., infant development, peer relations, cognitive development, and developmental psychobiology) that may vary with each offering.
View Classes »3470W. Current Topics in Developmental Psychology
3.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Graded
Selected topics (e.g., infant development, peer relations, cognitive development, and developmental psychobiology) that may vary with each offering.
View Classes »3500. The Psychology of Language
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Those aspects of language that make it a uniquely efficient vehicle for communication and thought.
View Classes »3501. Sensation and Perception
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Sensory and perceptual processes in vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell.
View Classes »3502. Psychology of Consciousness
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
The role of consciousness in human cognition is examined by comparing the conscious and unconscious operation of mental faculties including perception, memory, learning, and thought.
View Classes »3503. Computer Modeling of Cognitive Processes
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Symbolic and connectionist approaches to modelling vision, problem solving, planning, deduction, language understanding, learning, and memory.
View Classes »3504. Music Perception and Cognition
Perception and cognition of music including physics of sound, auditory perception and characteristic qualities of music.
View Classes »3550W. Laboratory in Cognition
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Selected experiments from the following topics: memory processes, categorization, language comprehension and problem solving.
View Classes »3552. Laboratory in Sensation and Perception
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Techniques for the study of sensory capacities and perceptual processes.
View Classes »3600. Social-Organizational Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Social psychological phenomena in the workplace. Social perceptions, personality, stress, work-related attitudes, motivation, team decision-making, and effectiveness, leadership and influence, organizational culture.
View Classes »3601. Human Factors Design
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Application of information about human abilities and limitations to the design of systems, products, tools, computer interfaces, tasks, jobs, and environments for safe, comfortable and effective human use.
View Classes »3644. Occupational Health Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Models, research methods, and research-to-practice applications in the interdisciplinary field of occupational health psychology, and how these are used to enhance the safety, health and well-being of workers in all occupations and to create healthier workplaces and organizations.
View Classes »3701W. Psychology of the Arts
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
The perception, emotion, motivation, cognition and cultural experience of art and artists.
View Classes »3750. Laboratory in Social Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Methods and techniques of research in social psychology. Supervised research investigations.
View Classes »3750W. Laboratory in Social Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Methods and techniques of research in social psychology. Supervised research investigations.
View Classes »3770. Current Topics in Social Psychology
3.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Graded
Selected topics (e.g., social influence, person perception, pro-social behavior) vary with each offering.
View Classes »3770W. Current Topics in Social Psychology
3.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Graded
Selected topics (e.g., social influence, person perception, pro-social behavior) vary with each offering.
View Classes »3771. Prejudice and Conflict
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Graded
Overview of the psychological bases of prejudice and conflict in individuals and society.
View Classes »3880. Field Experience
1.00 - 6.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Supervised field work in clinical, community, or organizational settings. Students taking this course will be assigned a final grade of S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory.)
View Classes »3883. Foreign Study
1.00 - 6.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Graded
Special topics taken in a foreign study program. Consent of Department Head or advisor may be required prior to the student's departure.
View Classes »3884. Seminar in Psychology
3.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Graded
Recent developments in psychology. Topics vary with each offering.
View Classes »3885. Special Topics
1.00 - 6.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Graded
3889. Undergraduate Research
1.00 - 6.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Graded
Participant activities related to research.
View Classes »3899. Independent Study
1.00 - 6.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
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Grading Basis: Graded
Students are expected to develop their own plan for a research project, conduct the research, and write-up this research, consulting periodically with a faculty member.
View Classes »4197W. Senior Thesis in Psychology
3.00 credits
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Grading Basis: Honors Credit
Hours by arrangement.
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