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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 113; pre-or corequisite: PSYC 250. Exploration of children’s understanding of emotions and how socialization and cognitive development contribute to the creation of different emotional styles and experiences. Examination of the theoretical and developmental aspects of emotions. Topics include understanding emotional states and the role of socialization practices on emotional expression. Fulcher.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 113; pre-or corequisite: PSYC 250. This course provides the student with an overview of gender-role development: How do children learn to be boys and girls? What role do biological factors play in different behaviors of boys and girls? Does society push boys and girls in different directions? We discuss children’s evolving ideas about gender, and what can be done to change these ideas (or whether they need to be changed at all). Through the examination of these questions and issues, the course introduces students to the major theories of gender-role development, the research methods used to measure children’s genderrole behaviors and attitudes, and the current research in the field. Fulcher.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 113 and 210; pre-or corequisite: PSYC 250. This course utilizes a biopsychosocial perspective to explore atypical developmental processes. The course examines risk and protective factors that contribute to the development of social, emotional, behavioral difficulties and competencies in childhood and adolescence. Conceptualization, assessment, and treatment of children’s and adolescents’ psychological disorders is also discussed. Murdock.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 114; pre-or corequisite: PSYC 250. This course examines cognitive and affective processes involved in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Causes and social implications of prejudice involving various stigmatized groups (e.g., African-Americans, women, homosexuals, people of low socioeconomic status, overweight individuals) are examined. Participants focus on attitudes and behaviors of both perpetrators and targets of prejudice that likely contribute to and result from social inequality. Woodzicka.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisites vary; determined at time of offering. Seminar topics and specific prerequisites vary with instructor and term. These seminars are designed to introduce students to an area of current interest in the field of psychology. Students receive an overview of the experimental research and/or applied practices that have advanced an area of psychological science. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Topics for Fall 2010:
PSYC 295: Current Topics: Cognition and Emotion (3). This course challenges the notion that cognition and emotion are fundamentally opposing psychological systems and explores how they function together to influence attention, memory, thinking, and behavior in our social world. Coverage includes contemporary theory, research, experimental design and application on topics regarding both healthy individuals and those with psychological disorders. No previous exposure to psychology is assumed. Johnson.
PSYC 295A: Current Topics: Health Psychology (3). No previous coursework in psychology is necessary. This course examines behaviors and cognitive processes related to health states and the mind/body connection. Topics include health behaviors, disease prevention, stress and coping, pain, cardiovascular disease, psychoneuroimmunology, and recent advances in the field of health psychology. Mechlin.
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4.00 Credits
Topics and prerequisites vary with instructor and term. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.
Spring 2011 Topic:
PSYC 296: Spring-Term Topics in Psychology: Cross-Cultural Psychology (4). This course focuses on how an individual’s cultural environment influences the way s/he thinks, feels, and behaves. The contribution of different cultural views and norms to a wide array of psychological topics will be examined, including: intelligence, sensation and perception, emotion, motivation, human development, and psychopathology. This course also consists of a three-day trip to New York City to learn about specific cultures by visiting cultural museums and neighborhoods. (SS3) Mechlin. Staff.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of the instructor. Students examine and discuss the meaning and significance of happiness, explore pathways and barriers to happiness from scientific, theoretical, and philosophical perspectives, and engage in a thoughtful and proactive process of self-examination with regard to personal ideals, goals, and mechanisms of happiness. Students become immersed in experiential learning opportunities to sample potential pathways to well-being and contribute to the greater good through community service. PSYC 300:The Pursuit of Happiness; REL 205:Self Help and the Pursuit of Happiness; and SOC289: Sociology of the Self: Self-Help meet together each Friday in a seminar where students become teachers and lead a class in which we all discuss together the work we have done separately during the week. In this way, students become part of a broad learning community that cuts across the many disciplines and divisions that make up the university. Murdock.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Six credits in psychology and junior standing. A seminar examining the evolution of modern psychology from its origins in philosophy and natural science to contemporary systems and theory, with special emphasis on fundamental psychological issues. Stewart.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Directed research on a variety of topics in sensation measurement and perception. May not be repeated. Lorig.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor. Directed research on a variety of topics in systems neuroscience. May not be repeated. R. Stewart.
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