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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
A survey of human development emphasizing the nature of children's minds and experience, developmental change, and the relation between child and adult mentation. How do children at different periods in development think, feel, and experience the world around them? Students will be actively involved in preschool settings.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course will survey the major themes and experimental findings of Cognitive Psychology. We will address the question of how scientists probe the nature and underlying structure of human thought. Topics covered include attention, perception, imagery, memory, language, thinking, decision making, and cognitive neuroscience.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Vision is the dominant sense in humans, and is central to our experience of the world: how we recognize friends, how we navigate campus, how we play sports, how we read, etc. Despite this importance, we take for granted how well vision works. While vision seems effortless, what we see is the product of sophisticated mental processes operating without our awareness. Visual cognition is the branch of cognitive psychology concerned with trying to understand how these processes work. The goal of this course is to provide an advanced introduction to visual cognition, including existing theoretical frameworks and cutting-edge research findings.
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Principles of psychology relevant to the theory and practice of education. Through selected readings, discussion, and classroom observations, students study theories of development, learning, cognition (including literacy), and motivation, as well as individual and group differences in these areas; assessment; and the social psychology of the classroom. The course focuses on how learning by children and adolescents at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels is influenced by their own characteristics and experiences and the various contexts in which they learn: family, school, community and culture.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The cognitive processes underlying the use and understanding of language, and in learning to speak. Topics include speech production and perception, grammar and meaning, knowledge and words, and pragmatic aspects of language.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The aim of the course is to elucidate the main forms of human thinking, e.g. calculation, deduction, induction, creation, and association. The course will consider psychological theories of these processes and their experimental investigation.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Reaching belief and making decisions are two activities performed especially well by humans. Contemporary investigation distinguishes normative from descriptive questions about belief and decision. The former concern how our cognition ought to function; the latter, how it actually functions. Fundamental theories of belief and decision will be presented in the course, and discussed from both the normative and descriptive perspectives. Utility, logic, probability, and abduction will all be examined, with additional topics drawn from computability theory and from collective choice.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course reviews psychological theories and research on how individuals are shaped by the groups and social situations in which they find themselves. We examine how, when, why, and by whom people are influenced, as well as the conditions under which they are impervious to influence. Topics include the social self, hypnosis, imitation, conformity, compliance, obedience, social etiquette, and social learning.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines psychological processes involved in how we make sense of people and social situations. Sample topics include how we form impressions of people, how we make judgments about the causes of people's actions, and how we use stereotypes in person perception. Related processes in self-perception will also be examined. A theme of this course is that our perceptions of others (and of ourselves) are sometimes inaccurate because the processes that underlie them are not perfect. We will pay considerable attention to these inaccuracies, and to their implications for misunderstanding and conflict.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The objectives of this course are to understand the psychosocial processes that influence health and health care delivery. Topics to be examined are the psychophysiological and sociocultural bases of health and illness; pain and healing; adaptation to chronic illness; stress; personality and illness; quality of life; death, dying, and grief; substance use; health promoting behaviors; patient adherence; physician-patient communication; health care; and medical ethics and utilization.
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