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3.00 Credits
Using a research-oriented approach, this course focuses on the principal themes, processes, and products of human development from conception through adolescence.Students who have taken PY 163 or PY 264 may not take this course.(Pre-requisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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Although the content of this course is identical to PY 263, it offers psychology majors the opportunity to participate in a laboratory experiential learning component in preschool Head Start classrooms.Specific hands-on assignments complement course material.Students who have taken PY 163 or PY 263 may not take this course. Designated sections meet the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: PY 101) Four credits.
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CL&ABA focuses on the environmental determinants of behavior and behavior change.The first two-thirds of the course highlight current concepts and research in Pavlovian and operant conditioning, reinforcement, discrimination, extinction, punishment, avoidance learning, etc.The remaining third of the course emphasizes applied behavior analysis (a.k.a.behavior modification) that is, how these learning concepts and principles can be successfully applied to education, parenting, therapy, medicine, and everyday life.During this part, which is run seminar style, each student makes a PowerPoint presentation of one aspect of ABA, from methods to the ethics.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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This technique-oriented course provides training in the basic elements of small-animal brain surgery including aspirated lesions, stereotaxic procedures, behavioral testing, perfusion, and histological techniques.The course requires a written mini-neurobehavioral report.Three lectures, one lab.(Prerequisite: PY 261 and permission of instructor) Four credits.
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3.00 Credits
This upper level course in psychology will provide students with an overview of behavioral neuroscience, with an emphasis on behavioral endocrinology (hormones and behavior).Topics include the description of major classes of hormones, the techniques used in behavioral neuroscience, and the discussion of hormone-mediated behaviors including male and female reproductive behaviors, stress / fear, memory and cognition, parental behaviors, ingestive behaviors, and circadian rhythms.After weekly mini-review sessions of the relevant text, this course will emphasize primary research (journal) articles with student-led discussions.(Prerequisite: PY 261 or BI 213 (Endocrinology)) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
The advanced presentation, analysis, and evaluation of theories of personality from Freud through Skinner broadens student understanding of the normal human personality in terms of theoretical structure, function, and dynamics, while enriching theoretical and historical understanding of the topic.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
How can we study the mind This course surveys topics in cognitive psychology, including attention, memory, thought, imagery, language, problem solving, and decision making.Through lectures, readings, demonstrations, and exercises, students learn about how we think and about scientific explorations of the mind.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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This survey course discusses the psychopharmacological properties of the more significant drugs used for research and by society in general.Drug classes include alcohol and nicotine, depressants and stimulants, tranquilizers, opium derivatives, and hallucinogenic compounds.The course emphasizes drug action sites in the central nervous system as well as behavioral alteration in the controlled and uncontrolled environments.(Prerequisite: PY 261 or permission of instructor) Three credits.
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Racism, sexism, classism, and their attitudinal and behavioral corollaries, bias, prejudice, and discrimination are characteristics of American culture that have plagued society and compromised America's democratic ideals throughout its history.The course explores the notion of race as a social construct and the development of individual cultural and racial identities, as well as ethnocentrism, racism, and ways to counter racism.All cognition takes place in the context of culture.The course also explores the influence of culture on cognition, between people in monocultural race/ethnic groups and within bicultural groups.An experiential component offers multicultural exposure .This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Human neuropsychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on functional structures and systems of the human brain and how they support various higher order psychological processes (e.g., learning, attention, executive functioning, higher-order thinking, memory, language, emotion, and motor skills).This course thus concentrates on the brain-behavior relationships beyond the cellular-molecular level, with an emphasis on typical life-span development and common neuropathological syndromes (e.g., strokes, dementia, and traumatic brain injury) in relation to functional structures and systems of the human brain.Assessment and treatment interventions of neuropsychological disorders are addressed within this context.(Prerequisites: PY 163, PY 263 or PY 264; or PY 285; or PY 261; or permission of instructor) Previously listed as PY 397.Three credits.
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