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6.00 Credits
This course is limited to Psychology majors who are conducting their Scholar of the College research.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar focuses on the relationships between choice, cognition, personality, and measures of well being, such as health and educational attainment. The course is motivated by recent findings that reveal significant correlations between differences in cognition, decision making, and health.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar is designed to provide students with an overview of current themes and research in social psychology. Topics include: social cognition, social influence, social interaction and group dynamics, close relationships, stereotype and prejudice, attitudes, prosocial behavior, the self and free will.
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3.00 Credits
Our ability to survive as we make our way through the world requires the quick and accurate transformation of a vast array of sensory inputs into a cohesive picture of the environment. Drawing upon classic work and recent advances, this seminar will explore the critical neural steps that underlie this process, addressing topics in vision, audition, and somatosensation, among others. We will place a particular emphasis upon drawing parallels among sensory modalities, and upon integrating information from a wide range of techniques, from single-unit electrophysiology to fMRI.
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3.00 Credits
Affective and cognitive processes have traditionally been studied in isolation. Yet, in most circumstances, there are interactions among these different types of processes. Affective neuroscience applies the tools traditionally used to study cognition (neuroimaging, neuropsychology) to better understand the neural bases of affective processes, and the ways that affective processes interact with cognitive ones. Students will critically evaluate the design, methods, and interpretation of studies and will learn how the methods of cognitive neuroscience are best applied to examine affective processing.
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3.00 Credits
For over a century, human brain mapping has been conducted by correlating lesion location with impaired behavior. In the last two decades, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) -- a noninvasive neuroimaging technique with excellent spatial resolution -- has given rise to an explosion of knowledge regarding the role of specific brain regions in particular types of cognitive processing (such as shifting attention or memory retrieval). This course provides an in-depth examination of fMRI by reviewing the physical basis of the fMRI signal and its relation to neural activity in addition to considering issues of experimental design and data analysis.
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3.00 Credits
The course will provide an overview of the neural systems involved in the stress response, from the cellular to the behavioral level. We will discuss the roles of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in the stress response and the effects of stress on neuronal plasticity, learning and memory, and mental health and disease. Emphasis will be on vulnerability versus resilience to stress. The long-term consequences of early life stress on cognitive, emotional, and social behaviors will also be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
This course will review the organization of neural networks that control motivated and emotional behaviors in mammals. This is a functional neuroanatomy course that will discuss how the brain regions are interconnected to form functional systems.
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3.00 Credits
A hundred years ago, psychology was a tiny academic specialty called mental philosophy. In a matter of decades, however, psychology burgeoned into an enormous field influencing both scholars and the popular imagination (think IQ test, think analyst's couch). What accounts for the rise of psychology to its all-powerful position? This course will examine the twentieth century trajectory of psychology, asking how it has shaped, and been shaped by, cultural, social, and political conditions, and exploring major thinkers such as William James, Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, Stanley Milgram, Abraham Maslow, and others.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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