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3.00 Credits
This technique-oriented course provides training in the basic elements of small-animal brain surgery including aspirated lesions, stereotaxic procedures, behavioral testing, perfusion, and histological techniques.The course requires a written mini-neurobehavioral report.Three lectures, one lab.(Prerequisite: PY 261 and permission of instructor) Four credits.
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This upper level course in psychology will provide students with an overview of behavioral neuroscience, with an emphasis on behavioral endocrinology (hormones and behavior).Topics include the description of major classes of hormones, the techniques used in behavioral neuroscience, and the discussion of hormone-mediated behaviors including male and female reproductive behaviors, stress / fear, memory and cognition, parental behaviors, ingestive behaviors, and circadian rhythms.After weekly mini-review sessions of the relevant text, this course will emphasize primary research (journal) articles with student-led discussions.(Prerequisite: PY 261 or BI 213 (Endocrinology)) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
The advanced presentation, analysis, and evaluation of theories of personality from Freud through Skinner broadens student understanding of the normal human personality in terms of theoretical structure, function, and dynamics, while enriching theoretical and historical understanding of the topic.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
How can we study the mind This course surveys topics in cognitive psychology, including attention, memory, thought, imagery, language, problem solving, and decision making.Through lectures, readings, demonstrations, and exercises, students learn about how we think and about scientific explorations of the mind.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This survey course discusses the psychopharmacological properties of the more significant drugs used for research and by society in general.Drug classes include alcohol and nicotine, depressants and stimulants, tranquilizers, opium derivatives, and hallucinogenic compounds.The course emphasizes drug action sites in the central nervous system as well as behavioral alteration in the controlled and uncontrolled environments.(Prerequisite: PY 261 or permission of instructor) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Racism, sexism, classism, and their attitudinal and behavioral corollaries, bias, prejudice, and discrimination are characteristics of American culture that have plagued society and compromised America's democratic ideals throughout its history.The course explores the notion of race as a social construct and the development of individual cultural and racial identities, as well as ethnocentrism, racism, and ways to counter racism.All cognition takes place in the context of culture.The course also explores the influence of culture on cognition, between people in monocultural race/ethnic groups and within bicultural groups.An experiential component offers multicultural exposure .This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. (Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Human neuropsychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on functional structures and systems of the human brain and how they support various higher order psychological processes (e.g., learning, attention, executive functioning, higher-order thinking, memory, language, emotion, and motor skills).This course thus concentrates on the brain-behavior relationships beyond the cellular-molecular level, with an emphasis on typical life-span development and common neuropathological syndromes (e.g., strokes, dementia, and traumatic brain injury) in relation to functional structures and systems of the human brain.Assessment and treatment interventions of neuropsychological disorders are addressed within this context.(Prerequisites: PY 163, PY 263 or PY 264; or PY 285; or PY 261; or permission of instructor) Previously listed as PY 397.Three credits.
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10.00 Credits
Senior psychology majors gain practical, career-related experience in a variety of supervised field settings through the internship program.Student interns choose from a wide selection of placements in traditional psychology-related programs: mental health, social service, school psychology, early child and special education, probation, and hospital administration.Intern placements in related disciplines include human factors engineering, human resource development, advertising, and public relations.Internships emphasize the integration of learning, both cognitive and experiential.Interns may register for one or two semesters, depending on the availability of appropriate placement sites and qualified supervisors.Interns spend a minimum of 10 hours per week in on-site work and complete the required academic component specified by the faculty coordinator.(Prerequisites: completed application form, acceptance by the field placement supervisor, and approval by the psychology department's internship program director) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This practicum experience, open to advanced psychology majors, affords students an opportunity to explore teaching psychology as a profession.Under the direct supervision of a faculty mentor, students engage the issues of curriculum development, methods of classroom instruction, selection and use of media resources, test construction, and strategies for the academic and practical motivation of students.Interns observe participating faculty engaged in the profession of teaching and share in some instructional activities (Prerequisite: permission of instructor) Three credits.
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10.00 Credits
The course provides research training experience in a supervised setting in which students work closely with a faculty mentor on various research projects.Such work may include assisting in designing and running lab research, data analysis, field experience, and library research.This hands-on experience enhances students' understanding of issues in research design and analysis, and prepares them for more advanced research opportunities should they choose to pursue them (e.g., independent research).Student researchers are expected to spend a minimum of 10 hours per week in their faculty mentor's lab.(Prerequisites: PY 101, PY 209, and permission of instructor) Three credits.
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