Psychology: Fall 2007 Course Offerings

 

Spring 2008 Course Offerings

Note about meeting times and locations:

The meeting times and locations of the courses listed here can be found on the Course Offering Directory. Be sure to consult the COD for the most updated information regarding schedules and rooms.


101-1 Introduction to Psychology 405 Cognitive Aging
101-2 Introduction to Psychology 406 Case Studies in Memory Impairment
215 Introduction to Cognition 407 Implicit Social Cognition
220 Introduction to Psychobiology 408 The Emergence of Language
240 Introduction to Personality Psychology 409 Substance Abuse, Addiction and Recovery
  411 Psycholinguistics
250 Introduction to Child Psychology
260 Introduction to Social Psychology 420 Neural Mechanisms of Behavior
305 Research Methods & Data Analysis I 456 Psychology Research and Schooling Today
306-1 Research Methods & Data Analysis II 468 Psychology and Law
306-2 Research Methods & Data Analysis II 487 Minority Family
341 Abnormal Psychology 581The Emotion-Cognition Connection
348 Psychology of Aging 582 Psychopharmacology Seminar
350 Infant Development 583 The Psychology of Morality and Politics
401 Family Violence Across a Lifespan 584 Neuroplasticity and Perception/Cognition/Behavior
402 Language Development and Disabilities 585 Sexual Orientation and Family Lives
403 Affective Neuroscience 586 Fear and Anxiety
404 Language Development: Learning Words 587 Social Ecological Psychology
  588 Psychology and the Internet


PSYC 101-1 Introduction to Psychology

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Instructor: Dodson

Time and Place: TR 2:00-3:15, Gilmer 130

Includes Optional Review Session T 6-7

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: None

If course is full through ISIS: An online waitlist may be started if needed.Do not email professor.

Description of course contents: This course will introduce the student to a wide range of topics in contemporary psychology

Format: Lecture

No. and type of exams: Four 1-hour tests and a final exam

Papers or projects: None



PSYC 101-2 Introduction to Psychology

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Instructor: Haidt

Time and Place: TR 3:30- 4:45, Gilmer 130

Includes optional review : R 5-6 Gilmer 130

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: None

If course is full through ISIS: An online waitlist may be started if needed. Do not email the Professor.

Description of course contents: If you never picked up the owners's manual for your mind, this course is the next best thing. The course gives an overview of the major areas of contemporary psychology: psychobiology, cognition, child development, social psychology and clinical psychology. Cross-cutting themes include the ways that evolution and culture work together to create the human mind, and how to use psychology to improve your own life.

Format: Lecture

No. and type of exams: Two 1-hour tests and a final exam

Papers or projects: None



PSYC 215: Introduction to Cognition

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Instructor: Willingham

Time and Place: TR 9:30-10:45 Gilmer 130

Includes Optional Review: R 6-7 Gilmer 130

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: None

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online wait list. Do not email professor.

Description of course contents: Cognition is the Activity of knowing: and use of knowledge. Emphasizing fundamental issues, this course introduced such basic content areas in cognitive psychology and perception, attention, memory and language

Format: Lecture

No. and type of exams:

Papers or projects:



PSYC 220: Introduction to Psychobiology

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Instructor: Brunjes

Time and Place: MWF 10-10:50 Gilmer 130

Includes Optional Review Session M 6:00-7:00 Gilmer 130

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: None

If course is full through ISIS: An online waitlist may be started if needed. Do not email the Professor.

Description of course contents: One approach to understanding human behavior is to consider ourselves from a biological perspective. This course attempts to do so by examining how the brain guides behavior. The first portion is an overview of the structure and function of the central nervous system. With this knowledge, we then examine how the brain controls a variety of higher behaviors, including learning and memory, sex, emotions and sleeping.

Format: Lecture

No. and type of exams: 4 multiple choice exams and one multiple choice final

Papers or projects: None



PSYC 240: Introduction to Personality Psychology

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Instructor: Turkheimer

Time and Place: TR 12:30-1:45 Gilmer 130

Optional Review Session: T 7-8

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: None

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online wait list. Do not email the Professor.

Description of course contents:Personality psychology tries to describe the psychological funtioning of whole individuals. This course surveys the many methods and theoretical approached used for the study of personality and includes discussion of the psychoanalytic, social and cognitive systems of thought. Relevant reserch from the perspectives are presented.

Format: Lecture

No. and type of exams: 3 tests and a cumulative final exam, multiple choice.

Papers or projects: None



PSYC 250: Introduction to Child Psychology

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Instructor: Patterson

Time and Place: MW 2:00- 3:15 Gilmer 130

Includes Optional Review Session R 7-8

Credits:3 ( optional 1 credit discussion section)

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: None

If course is full through ISIS: An online waitlist may be started if needed. Do not email the Professor.

Description of course contents: This course provides an introduction to psychological development from birth through adolescence. The nature of changes during infancy, childhood, and adolescence, as well as the methods of study and theorizing about development are discussed.

Format: Lecture, discussion

No. and type of exams: 3, combination of objective and short answer

Papers or projects: One hands-on project (4-5 page paper)



PSYC 260 Introductions to Social Psychology

Instructor: Oishi

Time and Place: TR 11:00- 12:15 Gilmer 130

Credits: 3 (1 credit discussion section is optional)

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: None

If course is full through ISIS: An online waitlist may be started if needed. Do not email the Professor.

Description of course contents: A survey of the major topics in social psychology, including social perception, social cognition, attitudes and persuasion, confromity, helping relationships, and stereotyping and prejudice. Research, theory and applications of social psychology are considered.

Format: Lecture/discussion

No. and type of exams: Three multiple-choice exams

Papers or projects: Two short papers are assigned in discussion sections



PSYC 305: Research Methods & Data Analysis I

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Instructor: Spellman

Time and Place: MW 2:00-3:15 Gilmer 190

Review Session W 6-7

Credits: 4 (Required lab section)

Prerequisites: PSYC 101 or any 200-level PSYC course

Enrollment Restrictions: Registration is required for the BOTH the lecture and a lab section to be officially enrolled in the class. Otherwise you will be dropped from the class. Instructions on how to add the lecture, lab, or change lab sections will be given during the first lecture.

If course is full through ISIS: An online waitlist may be started if needed. Do not email professor.

Description of course contents: Introduction to research methods in psychology, integrating statistical analysis. Emphasis on descriptive statistics and non-experimental research methods. Use of computers for data analysis, experimentation, and report writing. This course is required for majors and is the first part of a two-part series (305-306).

Format: Lecture

No. and type of exams: 3 or 4 exams and final; short answer, problems

Papers or projects: Lab includes papers/projects



PSYC 306-1: Research Methods & Data Analysis II

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Instructor: Freeman

Time and Place: TR 2:00-3:15 Gilmer 190

Review Session M 7-8

Credits: 4 (Required lab section)

Prerequisites: PSYC 305 (with C- or better, C if class of 2010)

Enrollment Restrictions: Psyc Majors/Minors, Cog- Sci Majors Registration is required for the BOTH the lecture and a lab section to be officially enrolled in the class. Otherwise you will be dropped from the class. Instructions on how to add the lecture, lab, or change lab sections will be given during the first lecture.

If course is full through ISIS: An online waitlist may be started if needed. Do not email professor.

Description of course contents: Second part of a two-part series required for psychology majors. Emphasis on inferential statistics (t-tests and ANOVA) and issues in experimentation. **Course May Meet Second Writing Requirement**

Format: Lecture

No. and type of exams: 3 or 4 exams and final; short answer, problems

Papers or projects: Lab includes papers/projects



PSYC 306: Research Methods & Data Analysis II

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Instructor: Schmidt

Time and Place: MWF 9:00-9:50 Maury 209

Includes Optional Review Session T 6-7 Gilmer 190

Credits: 4 (Required lab section)

Prerequisites: PSYC 305 (with C- or better, C if class of 2010)

Enrollment Restrictions: Psyc Majors/Minors, Cog- Sci Majors Registration is required for the BOTH the lecture and a lab section to be officially enrolled in the class. Otherwise you will be dropped from the class. Instructions on how to add the lecture, lab, or change lab sections will be given during the first lecture.

If course is full through ISIS: An online waitlist may be started if needed. Do not email professor.

Description of course contents: Second part of a two-part series required for psychology majors. Emphasis on inferential statistics (t-tests and ANOVA) and issues in experimentation. **Course May Meet Second Writing Requirement**

Format: Lecture

No. and type of exams: 4 exams and final: short-answer, multiple-choice, problems

Papers or projects: Lab includes projects/papers



PSYC 341: Abnormal Psychology

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Instructor: Aaron

Time and Place: TR 8:00-9:15 Gilmer 190

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: 6 credits in psychology

Enrollment Restrictions: Psychology majors/minors have priority registration

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: This is an introductory course in psychopathology, or the scientific study of mental disorders. It will focus on the description of specific forms of abnormal behavior and the ways in which they are studied.

Format: Lecture

No. and type of exams:

Papers or projects:



PSYC 348: Psychology of Aging

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Instructor: Salthouse

Time and Place: TR 9:30-10:45 Gilmer 190

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

Enrollment Restrictions: Psyc major/minors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: Survey of research on adult age differences in psychological characteristics. Topics will include demography, biological changes, cognitive changes, effects of aging on personality and social relationships, death and dying, successful aging and more.

Format: Lecture

No. and type of exams: multiple choice

Papers or projects: None, but several brief "press releases"required in which findings form at least two research articles are described.



PSYC 350: Infant Development

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Instructor: DeLoache

Time and Place: MW 2:00-3:15 Gilmer 141

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 250 recommended

Enrollment Restrictions: Psychology majors/minors have priority registration

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waitlist. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: This is a broad survey course of psychological research on infant development

Format: Lecture with frequent class discussions

No. and type of exams: 3 exams - mixed objective and written

Papers or projects:TBA

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PSYC 401 Family Violence Across a Lifespan

Instructor: Jackson

Time and Place: F 9:00-11:30 Room Gilmer B001

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th Year Psychology majors/minors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: This course will address family violence as it is manifested across the lifespan. Specifically, we will discuss child maltreatment, intimate partner violence (including the effects on children of witnessing intimate partner violence and the frequency of co-occurring child maltreatment and intimate partner violence), and elder abuse within the family. Throughout the course, we will consider
whether and how these forms of family violence are conceptually related.

Format: Lectures, Discussion and class presentations

No. and type of exams:

Papers or projects: 2 papers

 



PSYC 402 Language Development and Disabilities

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Instructor: Bonvillian

Time and Place: TR 9:30-10:45 Gilmer B001

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: Psychology majors/minors, linguistics or cog-sci or by permission of instructor. You may not take this course of you have taken Psyc 555 Psycholinguistics with Dr. Bonvillian.

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: This course will focus on language and cognitive development in persons with disabilities.  Among the populations examined will be children with autistic disorder, children with Williams syndrome, deaf children, developmentally dysphasic children, adults with aphasia, and children with severe mental retardation.  In addition to spoken language development, the course will examine the acquisition of sign communication skills.

Format: Lectures, Discussion and class presentations

No. and type of exams: One

Papers or projects: One

 


PSYC 403/703 Affective Neuroscience

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Instructor: Coan

Time and Place: R 3:30-6:00 Gilmer 225

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Undergraduates, Psych 305 and 306 (Psych 220 recommended), preference given to 4th year students; Graduate Students have no prerequisite requirements (Psych 531 recommended).

Enrollment Restrictions: Psychology majors/minors, Neuroscience, Cog-Sci, GSAS

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waitlist. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: Affective neuroscience is the study of the neural bases of emotion.  The main goals of this course are: a) to provide an introduction to the major contemporary theories of emotion; b) to provide an introduction to theory and research into the neuroanatomical and neurochemical correlates and substrates of emotion and affective psychopathology; and c) to provide an introduction to the practical, methodological and inferential challenges facing affective neuroscience as a discipline. The course will involve a combination of lecture, discussion, and, where possible, demonstrations.  Graduate and advanced undergraduate students are welcome.

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams: 2

Papers or projects: 1



PSYC 404: Language Development: Learning Words

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Instructor: Jaswal

Time and Place: MW 2:00-3:15 Gilmer 225

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 305 and 306

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th year Psychology Major/ minors, cognitive science, linguisitics majors.

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: This seminar will focus on how children learn the meanings of words.  We will consider various theoretical debates, such as whether children acquire words through domain-general learning mechanisms or by mechanisms more specialized for word learning.  We will also consider the extent to which word learning requires an ability to analyze other people’s goals, intentions, and interests, and whether this helps to explain why language is specific to humans.  Throughout, we will pay close attention to how children’s early word learning interacts with and is influenced by their developing cognitive abilities.

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams:1-2

Papers or projects: Research Papers, Research Proposal, student presentations



PSYC 405: Cognitive Aging

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Instructor: Salthouse

Time and Place: M 9:00-11:30 Gilmer 225

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Psyc 215

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th year Psychology majors/minors Cognitive Science

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: Survey of topics related to the effects of aging on cognition, including historical background, methodological issues, the role of health, disuse, and environmental change, and neurobiological factors.

Format: Short lectures followed by interactive class discussion of the assigned topics.

No. and type of exams: None

Papers or projects: Two discussion questions on the assigned readings should be submitted prior to each class, and an original theoretical or review paper is required which will be briefly summarized in class.



PSYC 406: Case Studies in Memory Impairments

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Instructor: Krueger

Time and Place: R 9:00-11:30 Cau 134

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th Year Psychology major/minors, Cog-Sci majors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: This is a seminar devoted to learning about different memory impairments through the use of case studies. The case studies will be used as a means both to introduce you to different memory impairments and to make you think critically about the structure of memory.  Throughout the course you will find that memory comes in many forms; while one type of memory may be affected in an individual, other forms of memory may still be intact.  Using case studies, researchers would like to gain insight into what areas support a particular cognitive process.  While learning about the structure of memory primarily through case reports, this course will often include neuroimaging evidence and behavioral research as
converging evidence to support the claims made in the case studies.
The ultimate goal of the course is to learn more about memory theory
using memory impairment case studies.

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams: TBA

Papers or projects: Short weekly response papers and a term paper



PSYC 407: Implicit Social Cognition

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Instructor: Ranganath

Time and Place: TR 2:00-3:15 Cau 134

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: PSYC 305

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th year Psyc majors/minors, Cog-sci majors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: While our conscious experience provides us with a good story about why we think and behave in the ways that we do, much of our mental processing occurs outside of consciousness. In this course we will examine psychological research on those influences in our social lives that exist without our awareness or control. 

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams: 1 Mid-term exam

Papers or projects: One final paper and several smaller papers throughout the semester.

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PSYC: 408 The Emergence of Language

Instructor: Wood

Time and Place: TR 11:00-12:15

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Any Linguistics course or Psyc 555 or Psyc 530 or Psyc 411

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th year Psychology majors/minors. Cognitive science and linguistics students as well as speech and hearing/communication disorders majors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: We will examine the emergence of language in humans from linguistic and cognitive perspectives.  Gesture, newly-developed sign languages, home sign systems, and creolization will be studied to understand the evolutionary path of language.  We will also discuss the literature in research regarding the origin and emergence/evolution of language in humans.  

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams:

Papers or projects: 2 papers, 1 short and one final

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PSYC 409: Substance Abuse, Addiction and Recovery

Instructor: Doyle

Time and Place: W 9:00-11:30 CAU 112

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th year Psychology majors/minors.

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: This seminar will examine the phenomenon of recovery from substance abuse and addiction, including alcoholism and other drug addiction. We will review the basics of addiction and focus on how addiction treatment as currently delivered and other interventions (such as self-help/mutual-help, spirituality, alternative methods) are effective with various populations.

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams: One midterm.

Papers or projects: Two small papers, one class presentation, one final project/paper

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PSYC 411: Psycholinguistics

Instructor: Loncke

Time and Place: M 2:00-4:30 CAB 210

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th year Psychology majors/minors. Cog-Sci, Speech Path, Linguistics

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: This course will discuss how linguistic models help us to understand the psychology of language. We will focus on the emergence of language in children, acquisition and development of language, language disorders and neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics, and bilingualism.

Format: The classes will consist of (1) lecture, (2) video demonstrations, (3) debate and discussion

No. and type of exams: There will be three exams (two in-terms and one final)

Papers or projects: Each student will be expected to do TWO of the following: (1) read and write a discussion paper on a psycholinguistics-related article in a recent journal, (2) give a twenty-minute class presentation and lead a class debate on a psycholinguistics-related hot issue, (3) participate in a psycholinguistics experiment.

 



PSYC 420: Neural Mechanisms of Behavior

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Instructor: TBA

Time and Place:TR 2:00-3:15 Gilmer B001

Credits: 4

Prerequisites: PSYC 220 or PSYC 222 or permission of instructor

Enrollment Restrictions: Psychology, Cognitive Science, Biology and Neuroscience majors/minors.

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting. Do not email the professor. If you have special circumstances or alternates for prerequisites, please include a note for the professor while you sign up on ISIS waitlist.

Description of course contents: Lectures and discussion on molecular and cellular aspects of neural mechanisms as they relate to behavior. Topics will include neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neurotransmitters and receptors, neuropharmacology, cortical organization and function, plasticity and neurodegenerative diseases.

Format: Lectures, discussions and hands-on demonstration. Weekly lectures will be supplemented by practicum sessions on the same topics.

No. and type of exams: Two midterms and one final exam, in multiple-choice and essay formats. Weekly quizzes or take-home assignments based n Practicums

Papers or projects: Optional term paper



PSYC 425/725: Brain System Involved in Memory

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Instructor: Williams

Time and Place: TR 11:00-12:15 Gilmer B001

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:Psyc 220, or Psyc 420

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th Psychology, Neuroscience majors/minors CogSci majors, GSAS

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: The seminar will examine historical and current experimental findings that describe the contribution of neuroanatomical structures in regulating memory formation. An extensive review of the literature will be covered to understand how separate brain regions interact to modify our capacity to learn and remember new information. The literature reviews will also assist in identifying how specific neurotransmitter systems modulate activity in these brain regions during memory storage. Students will learn how to conduct comprehensive literature searchers, organize large volumes of information, improve public speaking skills, be introduced to a broad spectrum of neuroscience techniques and gain a better understanding of the interactions that occur between brain structures and neurotransmitter systems to enable new memories to be formed. Students who enjoy learning from non-traditional sources such as journal articles, archives, annual reviews etc. and are enthusiastic about discussing this information in a public forum are well-suited for this type of seminar.

Format: Lecture, presentations and discussion

No. and type of exams: I midterm exam

Papers or projects: 2-3 (15-20 min) oral presentations and a final 15 page term paper.

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PSYC 456: Psychology Research and Schooling Today

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Instructor:Lillard

Time and Place: M 9:00-11:30 Gilmer 081

Credits:3

Prerequisites: PSYC 250, 306

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th year Psychology Major/minors, 5th year Curry Students

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: In this class we will examine classroom practices in traditional and nontraditional schools today, based on actual observation and reading of research reports, and examine how they measure up to what we know about children's learning and development based on psychology experiments.

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams: None

Papers or projects: One final paper, frequent oral and written short reports



PSYC 468: Psychology and Law: Cognitive and Social Issues

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Instructor: Spellman

Time and Place: TR 2:00-3:15 Gilmer 225

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Psyc 215 or 260; Psyc 305/3-6 or other course in empirical research methods

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th-year Psychology majors/minors, Cog-Sci majors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: Examines Issues for which cognitive and social psychology may be able to inform the legal system. Topics include eyewitness testimony, recovered memories, line-ups, expert testimony, jury selection, trial tactics, jury instructions and the use of statistics in the courtroom.

Format: Seminar. Lots of class participation in expected

No. and type of exams: 2 exams

Papers or projects: Students participate in "moot court" -- where they pick an issue to argue against other students in the class.  Paper = one "legal brief" outlining the argument.  Also, students act as judges for one other moot court proceeding.  Paper = one short "judge's opinion" rendering a decision.



PSYC 487: The Minority Family

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Instructor: M. Wilson

Time and Place: M 9:00-11:30 Gilmer B001

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th year Psychology majors/minors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: Examines the current state of research on minority families, focusing on the black family. Emphasizes comparing “deficit” and “strength” research paradigms.
Format:

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams: TBA

Papers or projects: TBA



PSYC 581: Emotion and Cognition

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Instructor: Clore

Time and Place: T 3:3006:00 Gilmer 225

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th year Psychology majors/minors. Cognitive Science, GSAS

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: The cognition-emotion seminar covers the connection between thinking and feeling in two ways. The first part asks about the causes of emotion, and the second asks about the consequences of emotion.  Part 1 concerns the nature and definition of emotion and the role of cognitive appraisals in their elicitation and intensity. Distinctions will be made among concepts such as affect, emotion, mood, and temperament.  Part 2 concerns the consequences of emotion for cognition, experience, and behavior.  Of interest will be such topics as the effects on judgment and decision-making, processing and performance, and memory and attention, and the role of culture.

Format: Lecture, discussion, and presentations

No. and type of exams: One exam

Papers or projects: Class presentations, weekly brief thought papers and a term paper on a research project



PSYC 582: Psychopharmocology Seminar

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Instructor:Erisir

Time and Place: W 9:00-11:30 Gilmer B001

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Psyc 420 or equivalent. Contact instructor for equivalents.

Enrollment Restrictions: 4th-year Psychology, Biology, Neuroscience majors/minors, Cog-Sci Majors, GSAS.

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: This is a seminar course aiming to review principles of psychopharmacology, drug action, drug use and affective disorders. 

Format: The format will be lectures by the instructor, student presentations and class discussions. Background reviews from a course book will be supplemented by weekly readings of experimental papers and review manuscripts. 

   
No. and type of exams: One midterm exam in essay format.

 
Papers or projects: Two assignments and several class presentations.  

 



PSYC 583: The Psychology of Morality and Politics

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Instructor: Haidt

Time and Place: W 3:30-6:00 Gilmer 225

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

Enrollment Restrictions: GSAS and 4th year Psychology majors/minors.

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: Moral motives are all around us, but they are often hard to see because of our own moralism: we dismiss actions and people we disagree with as evil or misguided. The first part of this course will be a primer on moral psychology, including the evolutionary basis of human morality and its cultural diversity. Then we'll move on to politics, partisanship, and the culture war; then finally, to terrorism. We'll read books from across the social sciences. A central theme of the course is that politics, religion, terrorism, and racism cannot be understood without a full understanding of moral psychology.

Format:Seminar

No. and type of exams: None

Papers or projects: Two small papers, one large final paper, and several ungraded projects.



PSYC 584: Neurplasticity of Perception/Cognition/Behavior

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Instructor: Lillard

Time and Place: R 2:00-4:30 Millmont

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Graduate Student or Psyc 306

Enrollment Restrictions: GSAS and 4th year Psychology major/minors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: This course begins by examining the long-held view that functions are localized in particular places in the brain, fixed by adulthood.  After reviewing the history of these ideas we will examine the tide of research challenging that view: how imagination and virtual reality might change thinking; how memory can be enhanced; correction of language disabilities with training; how sensory deprivation might be corrected through other senses; phantom limbs; how culture can modify a perceptual system;  rehabilitation of stroke victims; etc.   Students interested in all areas of psychology should find much of interest in this course.

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams: None

Papers or projects: One Term Paper

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PSYC 585 Sexual Orientations and Family Lives

Instructor: Patterson

Time and Place: T 9:00-11:30 Gilmer 225

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

Enrollment Restrictions: GSAS and 4th year Psychology major/minors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: An examination of sexual orientation and family issues, including concerns relevant to families of origin, couples, and family formation across the lifespan.  Through reading and discussion of primary source materials, students will gain a deeper appreciation of the ways in which sexual orientation influences and is in turn influenced by family\ relationships.  Emphasis in Spring 2008 will be on international perspectives.

Format: Seminat

No. and type of exams: TBA

Papers or projects:TBA

 

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PSYC 586: Fear and Anxiety

Instructor:Teachman

Time and Place: T 2:00-4:30 Gilmer 081

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Graduate Student or Psyc 306

Enrollment Restrictions: GSAS and 4th year Psychology major/minors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: The course will focus on the etiology of anxiety problems, phenomenology of the primary anxiety disorders, and evidence-based treatments.  The course will investigate the nature of fear and anxiety on a continuum from normal to abnormal, as well as the description and identification of specific features of anxiety disorders.  In addition, class projects and discussion will emphasize how to investigate and evaluate controversial issues in the scientific study of anxiety disorders and their treatment.

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams: None

Papers or projects: 2 paper/projects

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PSYC 587: Social Ecological Psychology

Instructor: Oishi

Time and Place: R 2:00-4:30 Gilmer 081

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

Enrollment Restrictions: GSAS and 4th year Psychology major/minors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: This course explores the processes in which individuals and society “make up” each other. Specifically, the course explores the way in which socio-ecological factors such as residential mobility, density, and geography affect individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and actions, and the way in which individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and actions help create particular socio-ecological conditions.

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams: None

Papers or projects: Weekly 1 page reaction/reflection papers and 3 short papers.

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PSYC 588: Psychology and the Internet top

Instructor: Ritterband

Time and Place: M 9:00- 11:30 Cau 134

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Psyc 305

Enrollment Restrictions: GSAS and 4th year Psychology major/minors

If course is full through ISIS: Please use the online waiting list. Do not email the professor.

Description of course contents: The seminar, Psychology and the Internet, will focus on the integration
of the Web with clinical and research psychology. Primary focus will be spent examining Internet health interventions, online therapy/counseling and support groups, Web-based testing and assessment, and Internet
research methodology. A secondary focus will be on the psychology of the Internet, and will include explorations of net addiction, virtual communities, online relationships and group behavior, and related
ethical issues.

Format: Seminar

No. and type of exams: None

Papers or projects: Weekly assignments/readings, heavy use of web 2.0 technology, a mid-term paper, and a final presentation.

 

 

 

 


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