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Course Criteria
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8.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary treatment of selected topics in politics and society. Topics may include democracy, empire and war, gender roles in electoral process, the sociology and psychology of terrorism, the political economy of hunger and poverty, the social origins of dictatorship and democracy and others. May repeated for a maximum of 8 credits. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Students undertake internships or other approved fi eld projects with organizations such as political campaigns, media organizations, government offfi ces, business or community groups. Th e seminar component enables students to share and analyse these experiences, employing readings, discussions, collective behavior games and speakers. Permission required. 4 cr.
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7.40 Credits
Psychology as a behavioral science; its theoretical and applied aspects. Includes research methods, behavioral neuroscience, sensation and perception, cognition, learning, development, personality, psychopathology and social psychology. Group 7. 4 cr.
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2.40 Credits
Design, statistical analysis and decision making in psychological research. Probability, hypothesistesting and confi dence intervals. Conceptualization, computation, interpretation and typical applications for exploratory data analysis (including measures of central tendency, variability), t-tests, correlations, bivariate regression, one-way analysis of variance and chi square. Introduction to computer methods of computation. No credit for students who have completed ADM 430; BIOL 528; DS 420; EREC 525; HHS 540; MATH 439; MATH 639; MATH 644; SOC 502. Special fee. Group 2. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Research design, including experimental and correlation design; internal versus external validity; measurement; writing a research report; graphic and statistical methods for summarizing data; sampling; and special problems such as experimenter eff ects, reactivity of measurement and others. Th e use of hypothesis testing and data analysis in research. Prereq: PSYC 401 and 402. Special fee. Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Th e study of how humans (and some other animals) sense and perceive their environment. Topics include seeing (vision), hearing (audition), tasting (gustation), smelling (olfaction), feeling (somatosensation) and the variety of state-of-the-art methods used by psychologists to study these senses. Illusions and other sensory and perceptual phenomena are treated. Prereq: PSYC 401. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Th e study of human cognition, its basic concepts, methods and major fi ndings. Human knowledge acquisition and use. Attention, perception, memory, imagery, language, reading, problem solving and decision making. Prereq: PSYC 401. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Principles derived from the experimental study of human and animal learning and their theoretical integration. Respondent and operant conditioning. Reinforcement and punishment, stimulus control, choice and preference, conditioned reinforcement. Prereq: PSYC 401. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the behavioral neurosciences. Surveys research conducted by psychologists to learn about the biological basis of behavior: development, sensation, perception, movement, sleep, feeding, drinking, hormones, reproduction, stress, emotions, emotional disorders, learning and memory. Prereq: PSYC 401. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Behavior of individuals as aff ected by other individuals, groups and society. Topics include attitude change and social infl uence, conformity, social interaction, interpersonal attraction, impression formation, research. Prereq: PSYC 401. 4 cr.
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