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Flangan-Cato. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 109. formerly Psyc 139. This course is designed to examine the various roles played by the nervous and endocrine systems in controlling both physiological processes and behavior. First, the course will build a foundation in the concepts of neural and endocrine system function. Then, we will discuss how these mechanisms form the biological underpinnings of various behaviors and their relevant physiological correlates. We will focus on sexual and parental behaviors, stress, metabolism, neuroendocrine-immune interactions, and mental health.
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staff. Genetic and environmental components of I.Q., personality, and psychopathology. Evolutionary psychology; basic evolutionary theory; evolution of altruistic, cooperative, and competitive behavior. The course develops and makes extensive use of elementary mathematical and statistical models.
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Seyfarth. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 131/BIBB 231/ BIOL 231 or permission of the instructor. This course will review recent research on communication of animals, with particular emphasis on the vocalizations of birds, dolphins, whales, monkeys, and apes. We will consider the neural mechanisms that underlie signals, the information they provide to listeners, and we will examine how communication functions in social interactions. We will also discuss the possible parallels that may exist between the communication and human language.
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Epstein. This course examines the interaction of vision with higher-prder cognitive processes. In plain terms: once the visual system has recovered a set of surfaces from the surrounding scene, what does the brain then do with that information to make it useful Possible topics will include: object and face recognition, attention, awareness, mental imagery, spatial cognition, and action. Particular emphasis will be placed on cognitive neuroscientific work that addresses these topics.
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staff. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 162 or 160 or 180. Students in this course will study major theories in developmental psychopathology. Current knowledge about disorders of cognitive, emotional and social functioning observed in children and their determinants will be discussed. Clinical applications (diagnosis, assessment, and psychotherapy) will also be considered.
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Seyfarth. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001 and 131 or 133. This course will review what is currently known about the evolution, ecology, and behavior of our closest animal relatives, the nonhuman primates. Topics to be covered include the divergence of New World monkleys, Old World monkeys, and Apes; group formation and territoriality, mating systems; kinship, dominance, and reciprocity; social relationships, tool use, and intelligence.
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Kable. This course will review recent research that combines psychological, economic and neuroscientific approaches to study human and animal decision-making. A particular focus will be on how evidence about the neural processes associated with choices might be used to constrain economic and psychological theories of decision-making. Topics covered will include decisions involving risk and uncertainty, reinforcement learning, strategic interactions and games, and social preferences.
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Kurzban. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 001. Humans are unique in their abilities to cooperate in large groups of non-kin. In this course, we will explore the evolutionary origins of this phenomenon, and look at relevant theory research in social psychology, anthropology, and economics.
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Baron/Dana. Students will write several brief papers about the reading and one longer seminar paper on one policy issue. The philosophy of utilitarianism, intended as a basis for government, holds that government should try to increase total good (or, looking at it from the other side, decrease total bad). Modern governments try to do this in several ways: economic theory itself is partly utilitarian; some forms of cost-benefit analysis are more explicitly utilitarian; and some citizens and politicians adopt this as their own goal. Two impediments stand in the way of this program: 1., the difficulty of measuring utility; and, 2., the existence of powerful non-utilitarian intuitions about fairness, agency, and politcal participation itself. This seminar will first introduce some relevant utilitarian theory and some psychological research on utility measurement and moral intuitions, and it will then discuss attempts to apply utilitarianism to public policy, with particular emphasis on health care and environmental issues. Possible topics (somewhat up to the class) include health-care rationing, Superfund and risk regulation in general, fisheries regulation, the Food and Drug Administration's policies for new drugs, population policy, active euthanasia, and global warming (international equity issues, and the Geritol solution).
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3.00 Credits
Rozin. Prerequisite(s): For graduate students in Psychology. This course is designed to aid graduate students in developing fundamental teaching skills. The focus will be on lecturing, applicable to job talks as well as classroom lectures, but there will also be some attention to discussion sections and handling of questions.
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