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3.00 Credits
Research Methods Three credits. Fall 2008: Emanuele Castano, William Hirst Spring 2009: Xiaochun Jin, Howard Steele This course provides hands-on experience in designing, running, and reporting psychology experiments. Class time is devoted to discussion on individual research projects at each phase of the work. This course may be used to satisfy the MA research requirement. Prerequisite: 18 credits in psychology with an overall 3.0 average.
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Assessment of Individual Differences [P] Spring 2009. Three credits. Doris F. Chang This course is designed to provide a basic introduction to the field of psychological assessment. The term psychological assessment is used here in a broad sense to include the measurement of human skills or abilities, aptitudes, values, and aspects of psychological functioning such as personality and psychopathology. Throughout the semester, we will examine reliability, validity, test construction, individual tests in intelligence and personality, and special issues in diagnostic interviewing, and cross-cultural assessment. By the end of the course, students will have the tools to critically evaluate existing assessment instruments when applied to specific populations. Because the best way to learn about the principles of test construction is to try them out, students will complete a semester-long group project involving the design, administration, and psychometric evaluation of an assessment tool. Prerequisite: GPSY 5130. Any course listed in this section will satisfy the seminar requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Developmental Psychopathology Fall 2008. Three credits. Miriam Steele This course reviews the emergence of the field of developmental psychopathology. Issues to be covered include the etiology of childhood disorders such as autism, conduct disorder, childhood depression, and attachment disorders. In each case, developmental outcome and programs of intervention are explored. Special emphasis is given to the developmental trajectories following from childhood maltreatment.
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3.00 Credits
Remembering Trauma Spring 2009. Three credits. William Hirst Trauma can have a lasting effect on an individual, often leading to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This course will review the recent work on PTSD, explore its nature, and investigate why some trauma victims suffer from PTSD, whereas others do not.
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3.00 Credits
Health Psychology Fall 2008. Three credits. Lisa Rubin This course provides an overview of the rapidly growing field of health psychology. We examine current research to understand how biological, psychological, and social factors influence health outcomes, with a particular focus on chronic and life-threatening illness (e.g., cancer, AIDS, diabetes, hypertension, and chronic pain conditions). We explore the role of psychologists and psychological research in prevention, early detection, and adaptation to illness, and students learn specific psychological and behavioral interventions relevant for clinical work with individuals facing health concerns. Consideration is given to gender and cultural factors that influence health behaviors, access and utilization of health-related resources, and health outcomes. GPSY 6314 Political Psychology Spring 2009. Three credits. Jeremy Ginges This course critically examines important and timely political issues from a psychological perspective. We will survey research and theory within social psychology to gain insight into issues such as inter-ethic conflict, warfare, genocide, and conflict resolution.
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3.00 Credits
British Object Relations Theory Fall 2008. Three credits. Jeremy Safran Object relations theory explores various ways in which the development of the self emerges out of the internalization of relationships with significant others. Although the origins of object relations theory can be traced to the writing of Freud and such colleagues as Sandor Ferenczi and Karl Abraham, the true pioneers of object relations theory were British psychoanalysts such as Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, and Donald Winnicott. While few American psychoanalysts were influenced by these theorists until the 1970s, since that time some of the most creative developments in American psychoanalysis have emerged out of a critical engagement with their thinking. This course compares and contrasts the approaches of object relations theorists such as Klein, Fairbairn, Bion, Winnicott, and Balint. It also explores the work of important contemporary Kleinians such as Betty Joseph, John Steiner, and Ronald Britton, and British Independent analysts such as Christopher Bollas and Michael Parsons. In addition we will examine the relationship between object relations theory and attachment theory.
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3.00 Credits
Clinical Applications of Attachment Theory and Research Spring 2009. Three credits. Howard Steele This seminar will illustrate how attachment theory and research may inform, guide, and support clinical work with children and adults. In addition, the reliability of attachment research methods as an aid to diagnosis, measurement of progress, and outcome, will be considered. Original writings of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth, will be studied along side contemporary work, applying the Strange Situation Procedure and Adult Attachment Interview methodology in clinical settings.
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3.00 Credits
Cultural Psychology Fall 2008. Three credits. Joan Miller This seminar examines cultural influences on human development and implications of cultural research for basic psychological theory. Drawing on psychological, anthropological, and sociolinguistic work, attention is given to cross-cultural and within-cultural variations in psychological functioning across the life course. Topics addressed include such issues as emotion, motivation, personality, cognition, and social understanding. The course is also concerned with the development of minority populations and immigrant groups, issues of cultural contact, and methodological and theoretical challenges in the integration of cultural perspectives in psychology.
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3.00 Credits
Dehumanizing Others Spring 2009. Three credits. Emanuele Castano The capacity to recognize another person's humanity and subjectivity is one of the things that make us human. Yet, individuals routinely deny others their humanity, and depict them as animals, robots, or simply sub-human creatures. This course looks at how and why this happens. What are the conditions that lead to the dehumanization of others What are the motives behind it What are the consequences The focus is on the collective level, ranging from the objectification of women in everyday life to the extreme dehumanization of enemies in war. This course is intended for PhD students. MA students who are interested in taking the class should contact the instructor for permission.
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3.00 Credits
Psychology of Women and Gender Spring 2009. Three credits. Lisa Rubin Over the past 25 years, feminists have transformed the field of psychology. Feminist psychologists have challenged how we study, what we study, and what we know about women and gender, and have explored how gender polarization shapes our everyday experience. This course provides an overview of the now burgeoning study of the psychology of women and gender, from the enormous contributions of early feminist psychologists who challenged longstanding notions of women's intellectual and emotional inferiority, to contemporary postmodern feminist psychologists, some of whom contend that the scientific enterprise is itself laden with androcentric bias. Topics include biological and psychological perspectives on sex and gender development; sexuality, reproduction, and the regulation and management of the female body across the lifespan and across cultures; gender influences on mental and physical health; gender and the workplace; and violence in women's lives.
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