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3.00 Credits
An examination of the role that psychology plays in assessing, interpreting, and understanding visual art. Special attention to the nature and relevance of studies in visual perception. Topics include the importance of light and color in constructing images, the properties of painting that provide three-dimensional information on a two-dimensional surface, the nature of illusion, and the meaning of children's "art."
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This course critically examines the popular understanding of memory as represented in a cross-section of 20th Century cinema. Issues of memory are raised through a discussion of presentations in film, and these views are analyzed in light of empirical psychological studies and neurological findings. Topics to be explored include autobiographical memory, brainwashing, amnesia, brain injury, repression, and false memories.
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Explores the role of psychology in our increasingly technological world. Focuses primarily on information/computer technology, but biomedical technology is considered as well. Approaches issues from several perspectives: the social history of technology; the influence of technology on psychology; how cognitive psychology has helped make technology more "user friendly"; and the psychological impact of technology. Lectures cover issues such as privacy, communication, information overload, genetic intervention, and software personal agents.
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An introductory course on issues of death and dying. Begins with an overview of the field of thanatology that includes current issues in bereavement, suicide, euthanasia, social and political perspectives on death and dying, and clinical models of assessing and treating the dying and the grieving. (Not open to students who have taken 523).
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Examines the ways in which psychology has treated sex and gender. Theories and relevant research on sex-role development, gender differences, and stereotypes. Topics also include the impact of gender socialization on individuals, relationships, and society. Students establish a familiarity with the nature of psychological research on gender-related issues.
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Examines interpersonal, intergroup, and international violence and aggression. Covers physiological, motivational, learning, cognitive, interpersonal, structural, and ecological factors. Discusses aspects of the psychology of nonviolence. Summer sessions only.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, students will examine how we come together and get along in adult intimate relationships. Topics such as attraction, friendships and intimacy, love, relationship stresses and strains, communication, conflict, loneliness, divorce, and maintaining and repairing relationships will be explored.
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Examines the work of Sigmund Freud (founder of psychoanalysis) and those who have followed in this tradition. Thoroughly explores the historical development of psychoanalysis and examines the far-reaching impact of Freud and psychoanalysis on contemporary psychology (psychotherapy), philosophy, culture, art, and literature.
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Covers physiological, developmental, and psychological causes of stress, as well as strategies for coping with stress. Topics include the interrelationship of physical and psychological causes of stress, learned helplessness, the role of lack of control and predictability, and the role of life crises and transitions. Emphasizes real world applications. Summer sessions only.
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3.00 Credits
This is a survey of the many ways in which mental function changes in healthy aging. Topics include perspectives on lifespan development; the aging brain; changes in perception, learning, memory, language and problem solving; the role of lifestyle factors (exercise, diet), genetics, and the environment; dementia and age-related memory loss as well as compensation for loss. The primary focus is on reviewing our scientific understanding of these issues, but the practical implications of this knowledge for life in an increasingly aging world are also considered.
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