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Rousseau. The purpose of this class is three-fold. First, the course is designed to introduce students to a wide range of statistical models (e.g., event count models, limited dependent variables, and survival analysis) as well as problems associated with statistical research (e.g., heteroscedasticity, autocorrelation, and selection bias). Second, the course is designed to give students practical experience in data analysis. Students will complete a number of assignments using a wide variety of well know data sets (e.g., Polity III, World Value Systems, National Election Studies, Democratic and Local Governance, Correlates of War, Militarized Interstate Disputes, International Crisis Behavior, Penn World Tables, General Social Survey, United Nations Crime Survey). Third, the course will explore the relationship between qualitative and quantitative analysis. Requirements will include weekly assignments, discussion leadership, and a final paper. While PSCI692 is not a prerequisite for this course, some prior exposure to statistical analysis (including regression) is recommended.
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Staff. Consult department for detailed descriptions. More than one section may be given in a semester. Recent titles have included: Interpreting the Canon; State, Self, & Society; U.S. Policy in Europe; and Dissertation Writing.
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3.00 Credits
Living World Sector. All classes. Staff. Students seeking extended challenges are invited to apply for admission to the Benjamin Franklin Seminar section, when offered. A CGS section of this course may also be offered. See current timetable. Introduction to the basic topics of psychology, including learning, motivation, cognition, development, abnormal, physiological, social, and personality.
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May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Formal Reasoning & Analysis. Class of 2009 & prior only. White. This is a Benjamin Franklin Scholars course. An introduction to statistics, statistical methods, and probability theory. The course will cover: the nature of statistical data; estimation and hypothesis testing; concepts of statistical inference; measures of central tendency and variability; elementary probability; ANOVA; regression and correlation; non-parametric methods. Emphasis will be placed on application to research in the behavioral sciences. In addition, there will be an introduction to some of the most popular computer-based statistical programs.
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May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Science studies. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. Freshman Seminar. A seminar on the natural heritage of our species, based on historically ordered original sources and active weekly discussion. Seven perspectives from western civilization will progress from earlier mythological, literary, and philosophical sources to the scientific paradigm of inquiry into basic human nature. Exemplars will be drawn from antiquity, the later Greco-Roman period, the medieval era, the Enlightenment, the mid-nineteenth century, the early twentieth century, and the present time. Students should have : 1) fluent command of oral and written English; 2) curiosity about natural science in liberal education; 3) serious intellectual commitments.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Prerequisite(s): An Introductory Course in Computer Science, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Philosophy, or Psychology. Cognitive Science is founded on the realization that many problems in the analysis of human and artificial intelligence require an interdisciplinary approach. The course is intended to introduce undergraduates from many areas to the problems and characteristic concepts of Cognitive Science, drawing on formal and empirical approaches from the parent disciplines of computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. The topics covered include Perception, Action, Learning, Language, Knowledge Representation, and Inference, and the relations and interactions between such modules. The course shows how the different views from the parent disciplines interact, and identifies some common themes among the theories that have been proposed. The course pays particular attention to the distinctive role of computation in such theories, and provides an introduction to some of the main directions of current research in the field. It is a requirement for the BA in Cognitive Science, the BAS in Computer and Cognitive Science, and the minor in Cognitive Science, and it is recommended for students taking the dual degree in Computer and Cognitive Science.
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3.00 Credits
Living World Sector. All classes. staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001 or Permission of Instructor. Introduction to the structure and function of the vertebrate nervous system, including the physiological bases of sensory activity, perception, drive, motor control and higher mental processes. The course is intended for students interested in the neurobiology of behavior. Familiarity with elementary physics and chemistry will be helpful.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Living World. Class of 2009 & prior only. staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001. A CGS section may be given. How the individual acquires and is guided by knowledge about objects and events in their environment.
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Staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001, PSYC/BIBB 109, COGS 101 or VLST 101. An introduction to the scientific study of vision, with an emphasis on the biological substrate and its relation to behavior. Topics will typically include physiological optics, transduction of light, visual thresholds, color vision, anatomy and physiology of the visual pathways, and the cognitive neuroscience of vision.
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Rescorla. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001. A CGS section may be given. Changes in behavior resulting from past experience. The acquisition, maintenance, and elimination of behavior, and the effects of previous experience on responses to new situations.
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