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staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 111 and one semester of statistics. Experiments examining auditory and visual perceptual processing. Exercises examining stimulus and response measures, replications of classic perceptual experiments on contrast masking and pattern/object perception.
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Rescorla. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 121 and one semester of statistics. Students will conduct research in elementary learning processes. Initially the class will meet as a whole to conduct some present experiments which provide an initial basis for a short report. Then students will work in small groups to formulate, conduct, and write up projects of their own.
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Grill. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 127 and one semester of statistics. Students conduct supervised experiments on the physiological basis of motivation. Topics will be chosen from the intersection of issues in taste and nutrition, such as the ability of animals to take in specific food substances needed to maintain themselves. Class meets for lecture, discussion, and conduct of an experiment.
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White. Prerequisite(s): Psychology 131 or BIBB 231, BIOL 231 and one semester of statistics. Students will learn how to study scientifically the behavior of animals. We will take an evolutionary and ecological approach to studying several different types of behavior across different species in both laboratory and field environments. Students will gain experience designing and conducting animal behavior experiments as well as analyzing results and presenting their findings.
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Dahan. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 135 and one semester of statistics. Students will work in research teams to read intensively in an aspect of language learning, and then to design and conduct an experiment with young children. Initial meetings will discuss the projects of the various teams. Later meetings will involve oral presentation of the results.
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staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 149 and one semester of statistics. Brain imaging, particularly functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), is a promising state-of-the-art tool used to study specialized human brain regions that are involved in cognitive functions. In the first half of the course, we will review the basics of the fMRI technique, current experimental design and analysis strategies, and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of neuroimaging as a tool for cognitive neuroscientists. In the second half of the course, students will form into groups and propose a new experiment. As a team, you will program the experiment, acquire the fMRI data, and analyze your data. Each student will submit a paper describing the project and each group will give a presentation of their research.
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Trueswell. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 151, and one semester of statistics. Students will explore topics in human memory, knowledge representation, attention, and language processing. Laboratory exercise will include replications of major experiments and novel extensions permitting students to develop psychological hypotheses and the experimental rationale to test them.
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Baron. Prerequisite(s): Some prior familiarity with decision making (e.g. Psyc 153) andstatistics would be helpful and students must be willing to deal with computer programs (with help). This course will focus on medical decision making. After some background reading and homework, groups of students will design experiments, analyze the data, and write reports. Possible topics include decision biases, judgments of the benefits of treatment or prevention, adaptation to disability, and the development and evaluation of decision aids. The experiments will be done on the World Wide Web.
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staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 162 and one semester of statistics. Open only to juniors and seniors. Students will collect, analyze, and write up a research project in the domain of psychopathology, broadly construed. Reanalysis of elements of large data sets, such as the National Depression Collaborative Studies, will also be done. Please note: PSYC 362-301 is a year-long course, and admission is by instructor permission only (Dr. Melissa Hunt), an application essay is required.
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staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 160 and one semester of statistics. Personality theories rest on two traditions of measurement: one focuses on general trends and population averages, the other on particulars of individual cases. This seminar will explore these traditions by designing and comparing two experimental instruments, one rooted in each methodology. The seminar will contrast the assumptions underlying each tradition, and examine the results obtained with the expesrimental instruments in terms of the inferences--behavioral and theoretical--they permit.
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