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Prerequisites: V89.0001 or the equivalent is a prerequisite for all courses in psychology, except for V89.0009. Additional prerequisites are noted below following the course titles.
INTRODUCTORY AND STATISTICS COURSES
Introduction to Psychology
V89.0001 Amodio, Coons, Marcus, Phelps. Given every semester. 4 points.
Fundamental principles of psychology, with emphasis on basic research and applications in psychology’s major theoretical areas of study: thought, memory, learning, perception, personality, social processes, development, and the physiological bases of psychology. Included in the class is direct observation of methods of investigation through laboratory demonstrations and by student participation in current research projects.
Statistical Reasoning for the Behavioral Sciences
V89.0009 Bauer. Given every semester. 4 points.
Aims to provide students with tools for evaluating data from psychological studies. Students gain familiarity with data description, variance and variability, significance tests, confidence bounds, and linear regression, among other topics. Students work on psychological data sets, learn approaches to statistical prediction, and learn to interpret results from randomized experiments and correlational surveys.
CORE COURSES: CORE A—PSYCHOLOGY AS A NATURAL SCIENCE
Two courses must be taken to satisfy the major requirement, one for the minor. V89.0001 is the prerequisite for all Core A courses.
Perception
V89.0022 Carrasco, Heeger, Landy, Pelli. Given every semester. 4 points.
How do we construct a conception of physical reality based on sensory experience? Survey of basic facts, theories, and methods of studying sensation and perception. The major emphasis is on vision and audition, although other modalities may be covered. Represen-tative topics include receptor function and physiology; color; motion; depth; psychophysics of detection, discrimination, and appearance; perceptual constancies; adaptation, pattern recognition, and the interaction of knowledge and perception.
Cognitive Neuroscience
V89.0025 Curtis, Davachi. Given every semester. 4 points.
Provides students with a broad understanding of the foundations of cognitive neuroscience, including dominant theories of the neural underpinnings of a variety of cognitive processes and the research that has led to those theories. In doing so, students also learn about the goals of cognitive neuroscience research and the methods that are being employed to reach these goals.
Cognition
V89.0029 McElree, Murphy, Rehder. Given every semester. 4 points.
Introduction to theories and research in some major areas of cognitive psychology, including human memory, attention, language production and comprehension, thinking, and reasoning.
CORE COURSES: CORE B—PSYCHOLOGY AS A SOCIAL SCIENCE
Two courses must be taken to satisfy the major requirement, one for the minor. V89.0001 is the prerequisite for all Core B courses.
Personality
V89.0030 Andersen. Given every semester. 4 points.
Introduction to research in personality, including such topics as the self-concept; unconscious processes; how we relate to others; and stress, anxiety, and depression.
Social Psychology
V89.0032 Carnevale, Gollwitzer, Trope, Uleman. Given every semester. 4 points.
Introduction to theories and research about the social behavior of individuals, such as perception of others and the self, attraction, affiliation, altruism and helping, aggression, moral thought and action, attitudes, influence, conformity, social exchange and bargaining, group decision making, leadership and power, and environmental psychology.
Developmental Psychology
V89.0034 Adolph, Johnson. Given every semester. 4 points.
Introduction and overview of theoretical issues and selected research in developmental psychology. Focuses on infancy through adolescence. Lectures interweave theory, methods, and findings about how we develop as perceiving, thinking, and feeling beings.
Community Psychology
V89.0036 Formerly V89.0074. Identical to V99.0380. Shinn, Yoshikawa. Given every fall. 4 points.
Explores the field of community psychology in terms of its origins, theories, and applications. Examines current models of person-environment systems together with their implications for understanding normal and deviant behavior and for the treatment and prevention of individual and social pathology. Discusses the place of advocacy, innovation, and action research and the role of the psychologist as change agent.
CORE COURSES: CORE C—LABORATORY COURSES
All Core C courses have prerequisites in addition to V89.0001 and V89.0009 (or equivalent). See individual courses.
Laboratory in Organizational Psychology
V89.0038 Prerequisites: V89.0009 and either V89.0032 or V89.0062. Carnevale, Heilman, Tyler. Given every fall. 4 points.
Students are acquainted with research methodology in organizational psychology. They then perform an original study, such as a laboratory experiment or research survey, in one of these areas.
Laboratory in Personality and Social Psychology
V89.0039 Prerequisites: V89.0009 and either V89.0030, V89.0032, or V89.0062. Given every semester. 4 points.
Methodology and procedures of personality and social psychological research and exercises in data analysis and research design. Statistical concepts such as reliability and validity, methods of constructing personality measures, merits and limitations of correlational and experimental research designs, and empirical evaluation of theories. Student teams conduct research projects.
Laboratory in Developmental Psychology
V89.0040 Prerequisites: V89.0009, V89.0034. Hughes, Johnson. Given every year. 4 points.
Review of observational and experimental techniques used in studying children. Each student chooses a topic and conducts a short-term study on that topic in a field or laboratory setting. Two presentations require a literature review and a proposed experimental design, and a report of the results of the study, which is due at semester’s end.
Laboratory in Community Research
V89.0041 Prerequisites: V89.0009 and any Core B course. Hughes. Given every year. 4 points.
Presents methods and techniques for naturalistic research in nonlaboratory settings. Research is designed to answer questions about human behavior in natural settings, the influence of environmental settings on behavior, questions of specific and broad-range social policy, and the effects and effectiveness of programs of planned intervention or change. Explores both the advantages and problems of this kind of research. Includes designing, conducting, and analyzing one such project.
Laboratory in Infancy Research
V89.0042 Prerequisites: V89.0009, V89.0034, and/or to be taken with a second semester of Tutorial in Infant Research, V89.0992, and permission of instructor. Adolph. Given every semester. 4 points.
Part of a yearlong research training program. Students learn general methods for studying infant development and specific methods for examining infants’ perceptual-motor development. Students design and conduct laboratory research projects, code and analyze data, and prepare results for presentation and publication (grant proposals, conference submissions, and journal submissions).
Laboratory in Clinical Research
V89.0043 Prerequisites: V89.0009 and V89.0030, or V89.0051. Kellogg, Westerman. Given every semester. 4 points.
The course is concerned with the process of the scientific investigation into issues related to psychopathology, personality dynamic, individual differences, interpersonal interaction, and various treatment modalities. Lectures cover all aspects of research methodology. Students complete a set of research exercises and submit writing assignments, including an APA-style research article.
Laboratory in Perception
V89.0044 Prerequisites: V89.0009 and either V89.0022, V89.0027, or V89.0029. Carrasco, Landy, Pelli. Given every semester. 4 points.
Presents a state-of-the-art introduction to the design and implementation of experiments in perception. By participating in class-designed experiments and by carrying out a research project design by individual or pairs of students, students learn how to formulate an experimental question, design and conduct an experiment, statistically analyze experimental data using a variety of statistical tests, write up the experiments as research papers, and present a short research talk.
Laboratory in Human Cognition
V89.0046 Formerly V89.0028. Prerequisites: V89.0009 and either V89.0022, V89.0026, V89.0027, or V89.0029. Hilford, McElree. Given every year. 4 points.
Presents a state-of-the-art introduction to the design and implementation of experiments in cognitive psychology as performed on computers. Experiments are performed in the areas of perception, learning, memory, and decision making. Students carry out independent research projects and learn to write research reports conforming to APA guidelines.
Lab in Statistical Methods
V89.0047 Prerequisite: V89.0009. Shrout. Given every semester. 4 points.
An advanced undergraduate course in analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multiple regression that aims to reinforce first semester statistics and extend knowledge and application of statistics to problem solving using exploratory data analysis using both Excel and SPSS. The course seeks to bridge the gap between basic statistics courses offered at the undergraduate level and graduate statistics.
Behavioral and Integrative Neural Science
V89.0052 Identical to V23.0202 and V80.0202. Prerequisites: V23.0011, V23.0012, and either V89.0024 or V80.0100. If this class is taken with its laboratory component for 5 points, the course can count as either a laboratory or an advanced elective. Rubin, Semple. Given every spring. 4 or 5 points.
See description under Neural Science (80).
ADVANCED ELECTIVE COURSES
All advanced elective courses have prerequisites in addition to V89.0001. See individual courses.
Teaching Psychology
V89.0002 Prerequisite: admittance by application only. Given every semester. 2 points.
The purpose of this course is to train students in teaching science, specifically psychology. Students attend a two-hour weekly seminar on teaching psychology as well as the Introduction to Psychology lecture. Students put their training to immediate use by teaching a weekly Introduction to Psychology recitation.
Seminar in Memory
V89.0023 Prerequisite: V89.0029. Davachi, McElree. Given every 2 to 3 years. 4 points.
Examination of the conceptual problems involved in understanding the retention of information. Reviews research findings addressed to those problems, involving studies with humans and animals, and with environmental, psychological, and biochemical variables.
Language and Mind
V89.0027 Identical to V61.0028. Baltin, Marcus, McElree, Pylkkänen. Given every spring. 4 points.
Introduces students to the field of cognitive science through an examination of language behavior, one of the major domains of inquiry in the discipline. Begins with interactive discussions of how best to characterize and study the mind. These principles are then illustrated through an examination of research and theories related to language representation and use. The course draws from research in both formal linguistics and psycholinguistics.
Abnormal Psychology
V89.0051 Formerly V89.0035. Prerequisite: any Core B course or permission of the instructor. Kellogg, Wolitzky. Given every semester. 4 points.
The kinds, dynamics, causes, and treatment of psychopathology. Topics include early concepts of abnormal behavior; affective disorders, anxiety disorders, psychosis, and personality disorders; the nature and effectiveness of traditional and modern methods of psychotherapy; and viewpoints of major psychologists past and present.
Behavioral and Integrative Neural Science
V89.0052 Identical to V23.0202 and V80.0202. Prerequisites: V23.0011, V23.0012, and either V89.0025 or V80.0100. Rubin, Semple. Given every spring. 4 or 5 points.
See description under Neural Science (80).
The Psychology of Language
V89.0056 Formerly Psycholinguistics. Prerequisite: V89.0001 or V61.0001 (Linguistics). McElree. Given every other year. 4 points.
Examines theories and research concerning the cognitive processes and linguistic representations that enable language comprehension and production. Topics include speech perception, visual processes during reading, word recognition, syntactic processing, and semantic/discourse processing.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
V89.0062 Prerequisite: any Core B course. Eggebeen. Given every spring. 4 points.
Personal, social, and environmental factors related to people’s attitudes and performance in industry and other organizations. Topics include personnel selection and evaluation, training and development, attitudes and motivation, leadership, group dynamics, organizational structure and climate, and job design and working conditions.
Preventative Psychology
V89.0093 Prerequisites: V89.0032, V89.0036, or V89.0074. Seidman. Given every 2 to 3 years. 4 points.
Examines the idea of prevention beginning with its earliest roots in the fields of both public and mental health to more contemporary perspectives on the promotion of well-being. Alternative meanings, conceptual frameworks, risk-protective models, as well as research and ethical issues in prevention are examined. A wide array of exemplary preventive interventions during each major life state serves as the foci of analyses, in terms of their conception, strategies of intervention, and demonstrated effects.
Social Issues and Social Policy
V89.0094 Prerequisites: V89.0032, V89.0036, or V89.0074. Shinn. Given every 2 to 3 years. 4 points.
Reviews research on causes, psychological correlates or consequences, and social policy options for dealing with selected social problems or social issues. Because most social issues are not purely psychological in nature, readings from other disciplines are included. The instructor chooses two or three social or policy issues to be explored in depth each term. Possible topics include poverty, homelessness, immigration, racism, affirmative action, child care, work and family, school dropout, and prevention of AIDS.
Special Topics in Psychology
V89.0300 Prerequisites: At least one Core A and one Core B course. Other prerequisites may be added based on the specific topic. Given every semester. 4 points.
Seminars of an advanced level. Topics vary each time offered.
Tutorial in Infant Research
V89.0992 Prerequisites: V89.0009, V89.0034, and/or to be taken with a second semester of Laboratory in Developmental Psychology, V89.0040.002, and permission of instructor. Adolph. Given every semester. 4 points.
Students learn general methods for studying infant development and specific methods for examining infants’ perceptual-motor development. Students design and conduct laboratory research projects, code and analyze data, and prepare results for presentation and publication (grant proposals, conference submissions, journal submissions).
Research Experiences and Methods
V89.0999 Prerequisites: V89.0001, V89.0009, and at least two other psychology courses and permission of department required. Recommended: a laboratory course in psychology. This course may be repeated for three semesters. It is normally taken for 4 points, but may be approved for less after the first semester with permission of the instructor. Aaronson. Given every semester. 1-4 points.
Undergraduate students are paired with faculty, advanced graduate students, or other researchers on a one-to-one basis to pursue common research goals in psychology. Undergraduates serve as apprentices on survey, laboratory, clinical, and field research projects and in return receive guidance in reading and developing research skills. Biweekly meetings deal with research methods and design and allow students an opportunity to speak on their research projects. Written assignments include several brief homeworks and a final journal-style research report.
HONORS COURSES
Open only to students who have been admitted to the psychology honors program. The Honors Seminars, V89.0200 and V89.0201, may be counted as an advanced elective in the fulfillment of the requirements of the major.
Honors Seminar I
V89.0200 Prerequisite: Admission to the psychology honors program. Given every fall. 4 points.
Students read and discuss recent studies and classical papers related to current controversies in psychology. A portion of class time is set aside for discussion of theoretical and technical aspects of each student’s thesis project.
Honors Seminar II
V89.0201 Prerequisite: V89.0200. Given every spring. 4 points.
A continuation of V89.0200. Students are also expected to present preliminary results of their thesis projects and interpret their findings.
GRADUATE COURSES OPEN TO UNDERGRADUATES
Certain courses in the Graduate School of Arts and Science are open to advanced undergraduates who satisfy the following prerequisites: junior or senior major in psychology, permission of the student’s undergraduate psychology adviser, permission of the Department of Psychology (graduate division), and additional specific prerequisites listed for each course. For further information, please consult the department and the Graduate School of Arts and Science Bulletin.
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