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staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 170 and one semester of statistics. Students will design, conduct, and report on an empirical question in social psychology. The research may involve experiments, content analysis, cross-cultural comparison, interviewing, observations, or other methods. Class discussions will help students formulate their projects and provide an opportunity for reports.
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staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 170 or 172 or 174, and one semester of statistics. The areas of research that students will be able to choose from in this course will include (1) mechanisms of social learning such as prestige bias and conformism; (2) essentialism of species and ethnic categories; (3) narrative memory; and (4) experimental economics. Students will develop a hypothesis, design an experiment, carry it out, and write an analysis of the results.
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Kurzban. Prerequisite(s): One semester of statistics. In this course, students will, in consultation with the instructor, develop hypotheses and then design, carry out, and write up original research in evoluionary psychology. Topics will focus on adaptations for social life, including: social categorization, cooperation, social exclusion, mating, friendship, and so on.
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staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 180 and Stat 111 (or its equivalent) or permission of instructor. This class will focus on observational methods of studying children, with attention to the entire scope of the research process. Readings and class discussion will be aimed at supporting the research projects which each student will do. Working individually or in groups, students will define a research question relevant to some issue in Developmental Psychology, develop an appropriate observational measure, use the measure to observe young children in a naturalistic setting, and analyze and interpret the findings.
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Individual research involving data collection. Students do independent empirical work under the supervision of a faculty member, leading to a written paper. Normally taken in the junior or senior year.
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Thompson-Schill. Prerequisite(s): acceptance into the Honors Program in Psychology. Open to senior honors candidates in psychology. A two-semester sequence supporting the preparation of an honors thesis in psychology. Students will present their work in progress and develop skills in written and oral communication of scientific ideas.
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Price. Prerequisite(s): Basic statistics or permission of instructor. This course will cover basic principles of human and animal behavior genetics, including the genetics of normal variation as well as extreme phenotypes represented by behavioral, psychiatric and neurologic disorders. The course will focus on methods necessary to critically evaluate research findings on normal and abnormal human behavior. Animal models will also be reviewed.
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staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001. This course brings together two seemingly very different subjects, the art of music and the science of psychology. Parallel theories, empirical evidence, and demonstrations of how fundamental psychological processes are used in the musical repertory will explore common convergences between the two fields. Major subjects covered include psychophysics; perception and cognition of melody, rhythm, harmony, and timbre; musical structures; learning, memory, tonality, and musical style; development; emotion, affect, and aesthetics; performance; social psychology; neural processing; and the biological orgins of music.
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This advanced course focuses on the current state of our knowledge about the neurobiological basis of learning and memory. A combination of lectures and student seminars will explore the molecular and cellular basis of learning in invertebrates and vertebrates from a behavioral and neural perspective. (C) abel/muzzio. This advanced course focuses on the current state of our knowledge about neurobiological basis of learning and memory. A combination of lectures student seminars will explore the molecular and cellular basis of learnin invertebrates and vertebrates from a behavioral and neural perspective.
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Cheney. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 131 or PSYC 133 or BIOL 321/BIBB 231. The aim of this course will be to provide advanced undergraduates with a detailed review of a number of research areas in behavioral ecology. Topics will change each year, and students will be able to take the course more than once.
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