Basic problems and principles of human experience and behavior.

General introduction to physical, social, and cognitive development from conception onward.

Introduction to the study of how people perceive, act, communicate, and reason.

Introduction to the science of sex and mating. Provides an overview of the psychological, biological, and social factors that contribute to sexual well-being and human sexual attraction.

Introduction to the biological bases of psychological processes and behavior. Overview of the physiology and anatomy of the nervous system, followed by a survey of brain mechanisms of perception, cognition, learning, and emotion; biological perspectives on drug action and mental disease.

Research and theory concerning personality structure, dynamics, development, and assessment.

Measures of central tendency and variability; statistical inference; correlation and regression.

Explore the R programming language, data visualization, data wrangling, descriptive statistics (measures of central tendency and variation), measures of association (correlation, regression). Examine inferential statistics including parametric tests (such as t-tests and ANOVA) and non-parametric tests (such as Kruskal-Wallis and chi-squared tests).

Theory and research on the analysis of human conduct in social settings.

Learn broad knowledge about laboratory goals and observe how scientific studies are conducted. Develop entry-level firsthand supervised research experience in psychology in collaboration with projects' principal investigators or graduate/medical students.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Psychology. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Explore the basic and intermediate scientific methods and statistical techniques commonly employed in psychological research.

Introduction to the R programming language.

Theory and research in the ways we extract information from the environment.

An introduction to perceptual systems, with an emphasis on perception in human and nonhuman primates. Subjects include the physics of perceptual stimuli, the neural processing of perceptual information, the performance of human and other primates in perceptual tasks, and the evolution of perceptual systems.

Examination of facts, theories, and implications of sex differences in human cognition and perception. Subjects include genetic and hormonal origins of sex differences, structural differences in the body and brain, verbal abilities, spatial abilities, learning, memory, sensory-motor abilities, and the auditory, olfactory, visual, and other sensory systems.

Methods of experimentation and discovery for examining one's own perceptions and actions in ordinary life.

Advanced statistical theory and methods for analysis of behavioral sciences data; subjects include analysis of variance and covariance, regression, and nonparametric techniques.

Explore how people learn emotional and motor responses without conscious intent.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Psychology. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Neuroscientific study of behavioral functions: fundamental structure and function of the human nervous system, sensory systems and perception, motor systems and behavior, motivation and learning, brain disorders and maladaptive behavior.

Neuroscientific study of hormones and behavior in animals and humans. Includes sexual behavior, sexual differentiation, parental behavior, aggressive behavior, feeding and drinking, stress, learning, and memory.

Study of human brain imaging technologies such as fMRI and electrophysiology.

Discuss the ethical, legal, and societal implications of advances in the understanding of neuroscience and genetics.

Explore the process of brain development from prior to fertilization through to old age with focus on the molecular, cellular, neurobiological, and behavioral changes that occur.

Examination of mechanisms of the brain that control behaviors such as incentive motivation, reward, aversion, and addiction.

Examine basic concepts and current research directions in brain plasticity. Includes theory and research on how animals learn and remember, how brain areas and neurons adapt to life experiences, trauma, injury, and aging and new treatment directions based on neural plasticity principles.

Discuss the scientific literature on neuroscience underlying sleep, psychological influences on sleep, and sleep habits and interventions.

Explore the role of biological clocks in health and disease.

Discuss biological, sociocultural, and environmental factors underlying cognitive aging. Explore how each of these factors dynamically shapes cognitive functioning, brain health, and late-life dementia risk from a life course perspective.

An exploration of questions in developmental psychology that are currently in dispute. Subjects may include stem cell research, treatment of juveniles in the legal system, physician-assisted suicide, and methods of sex education.

Physical, social, and cognitive development in humans.

An introduction to historical theories of and current research on identity, with particular focus on identity development in the domains of occupation, religion, politics and morality, gender, ethnicity, and adoption.

Examination of how children and adults decide what is real and what is not. Subjects include the fantasy-reality distinction, magical thinking, and religious cognition.

Study of the attachment relationship.

Examine the development of motor, perceptual, cognitive, language and socio-emotional capacities during the infancy and toddler years (0-2years). Discuss theoretical foundations, empirical findings, and methodological advances related to these areas.

Overview of the development of thinking from infancy through childhood.

Examination of theory and research concerning the development of language in the child.

Development of social behavior (for example, sex typing and aggression) and social relationships.

An in-depth exploration of what it means to be an adolescent - how the brain, hormones and cognitive development change motivation and behavior, and how institutions (schools, governments, police) help or hinder young people's development.

Physical, cognitive, social, and personality development during adolescence.

An introduction to theory and research on morality. Subjects include culture and morality, Freudian and social learning perspectives on moral development, Kohlberg's theory of morality, challenge to Kohlberg's theory, and cognitive, familial, and emotional influence on morality.

Mate selection, sources of conflict, and mating over the life span, studied in the context of evolutionary psychology and sexual selection theory.

Fundamentals of evolutionary psychology, including issues of natural and sexual selection, adaptation, and domain-specific psychological mechanisms.

Consideration of approaches to the study of language, its development in children, and its functioning; important research from psychology and linguistics.

Introduction to psycholinguistics, which uses methods and theories from cognitive psychology and cognitive science to understand how people speak, comprehend, and learn language(s).

Theory and research on the reading process and its acquisition.

Adjustment difficulties during childhood and adolescence; causation and treatment.

A general introduction to organizational behavior and issues in industrial/organizational psychology. Subjects include organizational structure, selection and placement, leadership, job satisfaction, training, and change.

Topics of contemporary interest that may vary from semester to semester.

Theoretical and methodological issues involved in trying to understand and measure personality.

A survey of the diverse roots of modern psychology, the competing schools that influenced psychology's development, and the perspectives that guide scholarship in present-day psychology.

Psychological research and theory on religious fundamentalism. Considers the nature of different forms of religious fundamentalism, and possible psychological mechanisms that motivate fundamentalism. Includes topics such as the development of fundamentalism, the movement from fundamentalism to terrorism, and fundamentalism and the family.

An exploration of the psychological processes involved in religion. Discusses seminal psychological theories of religion, such as the work of James, Freud, Jung, and Maslow. Discussion of empirical work includes topics such as the development of religion across the life span, religious experience, conversion, and the effects of religion on mental and physical health.

Delves into the relation between literature and psychological research. Addresses this relation in terms of character development, plot devices, and historical influences. Broadly explore why people are interested in reading literature that might be subjective or wholly fictional in nature. Explore the extent to which authors create characters that 'ring true' to what psychological science has learned about human nature and how this affects the reader's enjoyment of the literature.

Causes of substance abuse: the evolutionary perspective, sex differences, predisposition, biological and cognitive theories; emphasis on food and alcohol.

Examine the multiple dimensions of Latine development across the lifespan. Discuss theoretical foundations, empirical findings, and methodological advances in the field.

Study of person-to-person variation in intelligence, personality, and interests, with an emphasis on genetic and environmental determinants, developmental processes, and their relation to real-world outcomes.

Development of sex from genes to human behavior.

Theory and research on motivation; biological and social determinants.

Explore biological and social factors in the development and treatment of psychopathology.

The pharmacology and the neurochemical, neurophysiological, and psychological effects of psychoactive drugs, with regard to their use as therapeutic and behavioral research tools.

Theoretical and critical analysis of the development, nature, and function of the thought process.

Study of the historical and contemporary knowledge about the ways that people learn about concepts.

An introduction to animal intelligence and the evolution of mind. Examines what is known about intelligence in other animals, how intelligence is revealed in social and problem-solving behavior, and the ways in which human intelligence is structured by its evolutionary past.

Introduction to the scientific study of consciousness from the perspective of psychology and neuroscience.

Cognitive foundations of music in terms of physics of sound, the psychophysics of musical experience, perceptual organization of musical scenes, the perception of time through rhythm, and the ways in which music reflects natural form.

Exploration of the link between the brain, mind, and behavior and cognitive neuroscience techniques.

Explore cognitive and evolutionary approaches to understanding religion. Examine cutting-edge research on the cognitive science of religion from disciplines including anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and religious studies.

Survey of psychological research on how people reason and make decisions. Subjects include mental models, causality, analogy, heuristics, emotion, motivation, culture, and decision making.

Examine major theories and research findings in social cognition.

Supervised research experience.

Deepen supervised research experience in psychology. Implement advanced laboratory experience and skills within a leadership role in collaboration with principal investigators and a team to assist with research projects.

Techniques of psychological research illustrated in a series of laboratory experiments.

Supervised reading in selected topics of significance; area of intensive study is chosen by the student in consultation with the instructor.

Introduction to techniques of assessment and treatment of psychopathology.

Focus on how childhood trauma impacts behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and biological functioning across the lifespan.

Examine the study and practice of psychology as it applies to issues relating to the law and legal system, such as: determination of competency and insanity, expert testimony, jury selection and the social psychology of the courtroom, eyewitness testimony, and false confessions.

Introduction to the brain dysfunction and cognitive impairment often associated with mental illness and how its recognition and assessment can be used to help with differential diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning.

Analyze how to live a more satisfying life based on modern psychological science. Survey the emerging field of positive psychology, including assessment and determinants of well-being; human strengths and virtues; the good life considered from evolutionary, economic, sociological, and cross-cultural perspectives; and applications to issues such as social change.

Human sexuality from a clinical and evolutionary perspective with a focus on the assessment, diagnoses, and treatment of sexual dysfunctions.

Introduction to multicultural approaches to personality assessment and counseling psychotherapy.

Apply the principles of experimental behavioral science to problems of creating an equitable and inclusive society in the twenty-first century.

Examination of the scientific literature on the psychology of human and animal emotion.

Advanced introduction to the psychological study of gender and racial attitudes in children and adults, with emphasis on the causes, consequences, and revision of an individual's gender and racial stereotypes.

Experimental research in social psychology, social influence, decision making, affiliation, risk taking, stress, and other subjects.

Analysis of theory and research in learning.

Introduction to foundational concepts and techniques in data science.

Explore foundational concepts and techniques in data science, including in-depth Python programming, advanced plotting techniques, curve/model fitting, computer simulations, and machine learning.

Introduction to the fundamental concepts and algorithms that enable computers to uncover the underlying patterns from different types of behavioral data.

Design experiments that will be conducted in the real world, use mobile sensing technology to collect behavioral data, and discover behavioral patterns by analyzing fine-grained data. Conduct a behavioral study with the aim to provide research evidence to overcome the challenges that the real world poses.

Explore the fundamentals of data science. Discuss the current trends and subjects in data science.

Examine and discuss important ethical issues in the context of behavioral data science in real-world case-studies such as emotion recognition, surveillance, targeted marketing, and more.

Introduction to Bayesian data analysis and inference.

Introduction to various methods of text analysis, with a focus on extracting psychological insights. Discuss the underlying scientific basis that supports various use-cases.

Examination of behavioral and brain mechanisms of attention in humans and other animals.

Field experience in applied psychology. Students are supervised by faculty members and by practitioners in community agencies.

Basic issues in normal and abnormal human brain function reviewed with emphasis on disorders of higher cerebral functioning.

Survey of important theories and research in evolutionary psychology, with emphasis on current problems.

Examine grant writing for fellowships and research funds from a variety of different funding sources. Create and workshop drafts for applications for pre-doctoral fellowships (for example, NSF, NRSA), postdoctoral fellowships, dissertation grants, or general research funds. Generate discussion, contribute peer feedback, draft and revise grant components, and participate in a mock study section.

Explore tools to create and maintain a consistent writing practice and meet research goals. Track writing, discuss challenges and progress in a supportive community, and receive feedback on written work.

Methods behind all common fMRI data preprocessing steps and data analysis models, including how to properly implement and evaluate their performance.

Addresses the latest developments in the design, analysis, and interpretation of neuroimaging data.

An overview of the principles, theory, and applications of using physiological measures to study mental processes. Covers the philosophical and theoretical foundations of brain/behavior relations and introduces basic electrical principles and human neurophysiology. A core course option.

Explore the application and review procedures when requesting funding from the National Science Foundation.

Introduction to grant writing in the behavioral and biological sciences and development of grant writing skills. Subjects include: finding grant opportunities, planning proposal activities, successful grant writing strategies, and how to talk to grant program officers. Write grant proposals (e.g., proposals to federal agencies such as NSF or NIH) and revise proposals based on peer and instructor feedback. Explore how grant proposals are reviewed by participating in a mock review session.

Explore professional development issues that arise in academic and non-academic careers for psychological scientists.

Current issues in cognitive science.

Design reproducible behavioral data analysis using R and RStudio. Emphasis on coding skills to organize, analyze, and visualize data.

Examine empirically-supported strategies for promoting well-being and thriving through graduate study and beyond. Explore emotions, stress response, coping, gratitude, health behaviors, sleep, resilience, and mindfulness.

Supervised practical experience in clinical assessment and treatment.

Introduction to the physiology, psychophysics and computational aspects of the visual system. Review linear systems analysis, information theory, Bayesian statistical decision theory, and other relevant mathematical areas.

An examination of the anatomy of the brain and spinal cord, emphasizing connections and functions of neural systems.

Current issues in cognitive neuroscience.

Survey of important theories and research in physiological psychology, with emphasis on current problems.

Explore the hidden curriculum of graduate training and future career prospects. Examine work/life balance, writing skills, grants, and issues to consider while in the job market.

A proseminar covering the core material on essential topics in sensory and behavioral neuroscience.

An introduction to modern methods of statistical analysis based on numerical computer simulation. Covers a range of common data analysis situations drawn mainly from the fields of neuroscience and experimental psychology. Techniques include point estimation, two-group and multiple group experiments, regression and curve fitting, and Bayesian analysis.

Consideration of problems of analysis and design commonly encountered in psychological research.

Covers t-test, chi-square, analysis of variance, and nonparametric tests.

Offers thorough coverage of all major aspects of regression. Coverage includes linear model theory and application, polynomial and interaction models, multivariate linear and logistic regression, and all related diagnostics.

Coverage of advanced statistical techniques useful in the social sciences and beyond. Specific areas of focus include non-linear regression, robust analysis, mixed-model regression (hierarchical linear models), and principal components/factor analysis.

Using R for a variety of data analyses following the topics covered in Psychology 384M including: reading data into R, generating graphs, ANOVA, ANCOVA, and regression.

Coverage of advanced statistical techniques useful in the social sciences and beyond. Specific areas of focus include semi-parametric regression, categorical data modeling, resampling and permutation techniques, monte carlo simulation, time-to-event analysis, and structural equations modeling.

Introduction to structural equation modeling.

Current issues in developmental psychology.

Explores linear modeling from both conceptual and applied perspectives. Focuses on ANOVA, including multi-factor designs, post-hoc testing, and analysis of covariance, as well as on regression, including univariate and multivariate regression, polynomial and interaction models, logistic regression, and related diagnostics.

Survey of important theories and research in personality psychology, with emphasis on current problems.

Survey of important theories and research in social psychology, with emphasis on current problems.

Explores cutting-edge techniques for finding meaningful patterns in large, noisy brain data sets, and how to use these techniques to address a variety of questions in cognitive neuroscience.

Current issues in individual differences and evolutionary psychology.

Survey of important theories and research in psycholinguistics, with emphasis on current problems.

An overview of current psycholinguistic research, primarily in the production and comprehension of spoken language by adults. A core course option.

Current issues in perception, brain, and behavior psychology.

Overview of theory and research in visual perception and perceptual information processing.

Introduction of graduate students to the methods, theories, and research of cognitive neuroscience across a broad range of mental domains such as attention, memory, language, and decision making. A core course option.

Person-to-person differences in cognitive abilities and personality, with emphases on genetic and environmental influences, developmental processes, and relations to real world outcomes. A core course option.

Current issues in social and personality psychology.

Readings, conferences, and other work on individually selected topics.

Explore current issues in cognition, brain, and behavior.

Introduction to intelligence and personality testing procedures, test interpretation, and ethical issues pertaining to clinical interviewing and testing. Includes instruction and feedback on clinical report writing.

Clinical interviewing with adults and children. Observation and feedback for test administration and clinical skills.

Explore current issues in behavioral neuroscience.

Presentation of contemporary approaches to the study of conditioning and learning at the behavioral level. Focuses on empirical data and theoretical analysis of acquisition and performance in Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning. Includes discussion of habituation, sensitization, stimulus control, and other paradigms for studying cognitive processes in nonverbal organisms.

Selected topics on the design and analysis of psychological research.

History and current status of comparative psychology, emphasizing several biological disciplines, including behavior genetics, ethology, evolutionary biology, and sociobiology.

Supervised practical experience in the use of clinical techniques.

Continuation of supervised practical experience in the use of clinical techniques.

Assess cutting-edge pre-clinical and clinical neuroimmune research, and interact with professors from across campus in special seminars.

Survey of important theories, issues, and research in social and personality development.

Survey of important theories, issues, and research in the development of perception, language, and cognition.

Brain-behavior relationships, particularly recent research in behavioral neuroscience, including the anatomical and neurochemical mechanisms of behavioral events, and behavioral influences on the brain.

A survey of the foundations for neuroimaging research with a focus on cognitive neuroscience. Describes the physical methods of image acquisition and physiological mechanisms used for functional imaging. Emphasis on magnetic resonance methods for structural and functional imaging. Surveys other imaging modalities, including positron emission tomography (PET), optical, and EEG/MEG electrical source localization.

Concepts and hands-on applications for quantifying aspects of brain and cellular structure, with a focus on stereological approaches.

Current research in neuroendocrinology, including action of neuroendocrine systems on behavior, assays of substances in the blood to identify gene products, and examination of stress from neuroendocrine, behavioral, health, and immunity perspectives.

Recent findings concerning the mechanisms of action and the behavioral effects of psychoactive drugs, particularly those used in psychiatry. Various drug types (such as sedative-hypnotics, hallucinogens, and drugs used to treat depression, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, and anxiety) and pathways in the brain are discussed to examine the neurochemical basis of psychiatric disorders and substance abuse.

Neuroanatomical systems that are functionally related to basic forms of learning and memory in mammals.

Neuroanatomical systems and functions across species; advanced forms of neuroanatomy in mammals.

A survey of the emerging field of positive psychology and well-being. Topics include character strengths and virtues, positive emotion, personality influences, motivation and goals, the happiness set point, and the issue of whether happiness can or should be changed.

Advanced training in research methodology as it pertains to the field of clinical psychology.

History and development of clinical psychology as a profession. Includes clinical psychology before World War II, the recognition of stress, the rise of evidence-based practice, professional psychology, and multicultural diversity.

Methodological considerations involved in designing research projects, and clinical assessment and treatment concerns that arise when working with diverse populations.

Examine the administration and scoring of a wide variety of neuropsychological measures, as well as test interpretation, case conceptualization and report writing skills. Includes a variety of neurological syndromes and grand rounds case presentations.

Psychological approaches to the ways in which information is stored and processed, focusing on how particular assumptions and mental representation make tasks either easy or difficult to perform.

High-level cognitive processes of reasoning and decision making. Explores human rationality, analogical reasoning, causal reasoning, heuristics, and decision making in naturalistic settings.

Focuses on one or two topics and examines them in depth through group discussions of key scientific manuscripts. Discusses both classical studies and contemporary research.

Readings, results, and discussion regarding cutting-edge work in the field. Emphasis on how computational models can be used to bridge brain and behavior.

Current topics in visually guided behavior, including eye movements, attention, and motor control, from behavioral, computational, and neurophysiological approaches.

Formal models of cognition and related analysis, such as model selection statistics and Bayesian hierarchical parameter fitting.

Readings, talks, and discussions on perceptual systems.

Introduction to statistical and computational methods for understanding information processing in the nervous system, with emphasis on neural coding and statistical modeling of neural responses.

Covers preprocessing and statistical analysis methods of fMRI data with tutorials and laboratory exercises.

Current research in human vision and/or hearing.

Social psychological theory and research on the topic of close relationships.

Introduction to psychological and neural foundational concepts in social neuroscience. Surveys current work in the field to examine how it may or may not contribute to the study of social psychology.

Broad overview of self-related theory and research, with an emphasis on recent developments in the field. Includes the nature and structure of the self and forms of self-knowledge. Also explores the relationship between the self and group processes, close relationships, and gender.

Examine different theoretical approaches in social psychology and the ability to critically evaluate the range and the limits of social psychological explanations from a meta-theoretical perspective. Address meta-theoretical principles in the construction and evaluation of social psychological theories, classic and contemporary approaches to understanding social psychological phenomena, and current directions in social psychological theorizing.

Survey of theories and findings concerning the links between psychological states and health. Includes emotion, stress, coping, psychoneuroimmunology, disclosure, and the social correlates of health and illness.

An exploration into computer-based methods used to study the links between word use and basic social and personality processes.

Examine key theories and research in social psychology, from classic to current approaches.

Emphasizes understanding the major theoretical approaches to the field, with an introduction to empirical work inspired by these theoretical perspectives.

Evaluation of the experimental and theoretical literature concerning major behavioral disorders.

The epidemiology, etiology, associated features, developmental course, and prognosis of childhood and adolescent behavior disorders.

Recent findings concerning the mechanisms of action and the behavioral effects of psychoactive drugs, particularly those used in psychiatry.

Introduction to the teaching of psychology, including basic principles of adequate preparation, clear organization, student-teacher rapport, effective use of class time, clear and engaging communication of course content, fair and effective evaluation of students' understanding of subject matter, and ethical behavior. Also addresses issues concerning the relations of individual courses to other college courses, specific types of instruction (e.g., writing instruction), and the broad goals of colleges and universities.