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3.00 Credits
A survey and analysis of concepts, theory, and research covering the areas of learning, memory, social, abnormal, clinical, physiological, and sensory psychology. This is a general survey course designed to introduce students to the diversity of areas, approaches, and theories that comprise the study of mind and behavior. Psych 100B is required of all majors and is prerequisite to all upper-level courses in Psychology. Open to freshmen. Note: For students enrolled in Psych 100B who are interested in exploring a few areas of Psychology within a seminar format, see the companion course, Psych 102, Seminar: Introduction to Psychology.
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1.00 Credits
This seminar enables students enrolled in Introduction to Psychology (Psych 100B) to explore in greater depth several of the ideas and concepts in contemporary psychology. Open to freshmen who are concurrently enrolled in Psych 100B or completed Psych 100B. Also open to sophomores who are concurrently enrolled in Psych 100B. Sections are limited to 15 students.
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3.00 Credits
Cognitive processes (such as perceiving, attending, remembering, judging, and predicting) are critical for keeping us in touch with our environments and for deciding what actions we take. Although these processes usually are accurate, they also are subject to error. Cognitive illusions are the systematic errors people make in perceiving the world, remembering events from the past, and thinking and reasoning about the future. This course explores these cognitive distortions, what they tell us about how the mind works, and practical challenges they pose. For example, if a witness cannot accurately remember the face of an individual who committed a crime, an innocent person might be convicted. If a pilot is subject to perceptual distortions while flying, an accident may result.
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1.00 Credits
This course covers selected topics relevant to the developmental, social, personal, and cognitive issues confronting young adults during their college years. Material is drawn mainly from the field of psychology, and the emphasis is on the scientific basis of concepts and on empirically supported strategies for growth and development. The knowledge gained may contribute to academic success, personal development, and a more rewarding social and academic experience over the course of college and beyond. Freshman standing-entering first-year undergraduates only.
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1.00 Credits
Weekly presentations by various members of the psychology faculty; introduces students to research areas and current issues. Attendance at all lectures required. Open to freshmen and sophomores only. Prerequisite: Psych 100B. Credit/no credit only.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the use of psychological perspectives in the in-depth study of the life of an individual, with a focus on historical, literary, and artistic figures. We examine how research is conducted, and how one writes a narrative account of a life. After looking at essays describing what is involved in investigating an individual life, we read psychological studies of such figures as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, William, Henry, and Alice James, Woodrow Wilson, Mohandas Gandhi, Sigmund Freud, Edith Wharton, and Frank Lloyd Wright. the main project in the course for each student is the writing of a study of an individual life. Prerequisite: Psych 100B.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on memory not only as an individual phenomenon but also as the basis for the transmission of culture and the construction of collective identity. We survey such topics as experimental methods and findings in the study of individual memory; questions of accuracy and vividness of memory and witness reports; repressed memories; transmission of cultural norms and identity through narratives; shared historical memories; individual trauma and historical upheaval; revision of the past and political usage of collective memory.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to the different methods used in the study of memory, from neuroscience to anthropology and from experimental psychology to literary studies and history. We consider how a historian works from documents and sources, how a neuroscientist explains the details of particular experimental findings, how an anthropologist comments on the connections between historical past and individual identity in a particular place, and how a cognitive psychologist uses laboratory result to understand memory function. Prerequisites: Psych 221, Psych 100B.
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3.00 Credits
An opportunity to gain supervised, applied experience in a nonacademic, community service agency. For a description of prerequisites, goals, agency selection, registration policies, and course requirements, obtain a copy of A Guide to Internships in Psychology online at http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~psych/undergrad.html or available outside of room 221 and room 419A, Psychology Building. In addition to work at their internship site, students are required to meet regularly with the internship coordinator. This course can be taken only once. CBTL course. Credit/no credit only.
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3.00 Credits
Same as Educ 234
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