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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This seminar will explore the idea that there are fundamental similarities in the processing of music and language, with an emphasis on experimental research. Topics will include commonalities and differences in sound, structure, rhythm, meaning, and evolution.
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4.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary comparative study of human, animal, and robot minds. Particular emphasis on philosophical questions that frame the problems, and recent work in psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience that attempt to tackle them empirically. Relation between consciousness and cognition, language and thought, conscious versus unconscious information processing, Manifestations of mental capacities in different underlying substrates: the human brain, nervous systems of non-human animals, and silicon-based computational systems. Additional readings from cognitive ethology and artificial intelligence.
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4.00 Credits
How do our brains give rise to our minds? Specifically, how are mental processes related to neural activity? This course will explore these questions, as well as the methods by which cognitive neuroscience seeks to answer them. We will focus on processes within perception, attention, memory, language, emotion, social cognition, and development, and methods including neuroimaging, neuropsychology, and electrophysiology.
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4.00 Credits
Face recognition and face processing have strong biological substrates and have wide application to many sub-fields of psychology. Among the topics to be examined are face recognition, facial emotion, and facial attractiveness.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to social psychological research and theory regarding everyday behavior. Topics include: social influence, attitude change, and obedience to authority; stereotyping and prejudice; social cognition; social interaction and group processes; interpersonal attraction; prosocial behavior; and everyday human judgment.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys interpersonal and group processes in organizational settings. Includes how groups and organizations affect individual members and vice versa; interpersonal and group processes; work team behavior and performance; power dynamics in organizations; intergroup relations; the leadership of groups and organizations. Group project required.
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4.00 Credits
This course seeks to understand collective decision making and problem solving by small groups. This includes understanding the interpersonal processes and relationships that occur between group members as they work together (e.g., conformity, minority influence, information sharing, and leadership), the effect of group participation on their members (e.g., learning, satisfaction, commitment) and methods for evaluating the quality and effectiveness of group performance. Past and present empirical research and theory will be examined.
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4.00 Credits
Rationalist models of decision making have typically relegated the experience of emotions to, at best, an obstacle to be overcome in social judgment, and at worst a necessarily biasing and corrupting force. By adopting a functionalist perspective, this course will seek to identify the conditions under which emotions can actually promote adaptive social functioning across varied domains such as close relationships, negotiation, intergroup relations and risk-taking.
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4.00 Credits
Examines processes involved in perceiving the minds of others, and how these processes are modified for exceptional cases such as the minds of animals, robots, children, groups, enemies, victims, supernatural agents, and the dead.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to research on implicit social cognition, with special focus on attitudes, beliefs, and identity and in some cases its applications to law, business, medicine, and government. Students will be paired with individual researchers to work on ongoing projects that can turn into more independent projects. In addition to weekly work in the laboratory, students are expected to attend biweekly discussion groups focusing on current issues and directions in the laboratory as a whole.
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