Psychology (PSYC)

Description: Differences between sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality. Social construction of gender, and the intersections between gender and other social identities (e.g., sexuality, race/ethnicity). Interrogate gender within the field of psychology (e.g., developmental, neuroscience, cognitive, personality, social); Role if gender in important aspects of the human experience (e.g., bodies, violence, media, work, parenthood, mental health). Application of gender outside the classroom (e.g., how gender shapes our every-day lives and experiences).

Description: Major terms and issues in psychology that pertain to race and racism in the United States. General principles of the psychology of racism that are universal. Psychology of the major racial minority groups in the United States examined through their unique cultures, histories, traditions, and collective identities. Research methods for the psychology of racism reviewed as a basis for interpreting research results.

Description: The relationship between psychological factors and physical health. Health behavior, health decision-making, health promotion and coping from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Description: Currently important fundamental issues in psychology, focusing on controversies within the science of psychology.

Description: Issues in human memory within the context of cognitive psychology: attention; short and long term memory; retrieval processes; semantic memory; how long-term memory is involved in comprehension and knowledge; how emotion affects memory; and the major research paradigms used in the study of memory.

Description: Evaluation and discussion of studies in learning and cognition that draws from the research literature with nonhuman animals.

Description: Major problems and methods involved in the study of motivation and emotion including theoretical considerations.

Description: Relationship of physiological variables to behavior, an introduction to laboratory techniques in neuropsychology.

Description: Interdisciplinary approach to the study of human sexuality in terms of the psychological, social, cultural, anthropological, legal, historical, and physical characteristics of individual sexuality and sex in society.

Description: Current problems, methods, and findings in the study of individual behavior as it is influenced by the social environment.

Description: Fundamental procedures in clinical practice, a critical evaluation of diagnostic and therapeutic techniques.

Description: Current issues in theory and research in developmental psychology examined (e.g., emotional development, the changing American family, the preschool years, social understanding), along with methods of research in these and other areas.

Description: Introduction to fundamental concepts and methods used in neuroscience and behavior research.

Description: Continuation of PSYC 912A.

Description: Introduction to professionalism, ethics, and diversity relevant to neuroscience and behavior, as well as other fields of psychology. Topics include open science, writing, presenting, applying for jobs, human/animal research, data integrity, inclusive mindsets, power dynamics, cultural humility, generalizability, accessibility, and diverse teams.

Description: Introduction key models of diversity in the conduct of neuroscience and behavior science. Emphasis on building practical skills related to creating inclusive mindsets as scientists, educators, mentors, and collaborators.

Description: Introduction to ethical principles and reasoning for research, teaching and professional practice in psychology.

Description: Application of ethical principles to practica and professional practice. Critique of the status of a professional mental health discipline, a discipline's ethical code, and practice in society.

Description: Application of ethical principles to the practice of psychology in interaction with legal institutions with an emphasis on the communication of psychological expertise and research to those legal institutions.

Description: Seminar that examines some basic tenets of the psychology of emotion and motivation from a social psychological perspective.

Description: This is the first in a two-course sequence on quantitative methods for the behavioral sciences. Topics include the fundamentals of statistics (measure of central tendency, variability, normal distribution, probability theory), hypothesis testing (type I and II error, one-tailed vs. two-tailed tests, and statistical power), t-tests (degrees of freedom, the t distribution, hypothesis testing with the t statistic), and Analysis of Variance (the F-ratio, post hoc testing, analysis of covariance, and factorial ANOVA).

Description: This is the second in a two-course sequence on quantitative methods for the behavioral sciences. Topics include correlation (sum of products of deviations, calculation of the Pearson correlation, and the Pearson correlation and z-scores) and regression models (multiple regression, variable transformations, categorical predictors, logistic regression, polynomial regression, and interactions and moderation).

Description: Presentation of basic methods, designs, and data analysis techniques employed in psychological and behavioral research. Univariate and bivariate statistical analyses and research hypothesis testing, multiple groups ANOVA, multiple regression, and the general linear model (GLM).

Description: Presentation of additional basic methods, designs, and data analysis techniques employed in psychological and behavioral research. Factorial designs and ANOVA, integrating these designs into the general linear model (GLM), testing and comparing models, uses of statistical control, path analysis, linear discriminant function analysis, and cluster analysis.

Description: Applications of the multilevel model (i.e., hierarchical linear model, general linear mixed model) for analyzing nested data with a particular focus on longitudinal data analysis.

Description: Design of questionnaires for survey research and the theoretical and practical issues arising from them. Selection of appropriate measurement techniques for assessing opinions, past behaviors and events, and factual material.

Description: Fundamentals and foundations of SEM (model specification and identification, data preparation, model estimation, model respecification, reporting results) and specific applications of path analysis (moderation, mediation, and moderated mediation) and latent variable modeling (standard and nonstandard CFA models, integrating latent variables into path models, multiple group analysis).

Description: Applications of structural equation models to longitudinal designs for analyzing repeated measures data. Topics will include evaluation of measurement invariance, panel models, latent growth curve models, and other extensions of structural equation models for longitudinal data.

Description: Introduction to the theory and application of assessment procedures and techniques. Measurement and interpretive issues in clinical assessment. Laboratory introduction to structured techniques emphasizing intellectual assessment.

Description: Didactic and laboratory training in the administration, scoring, and beginning interpretation of projective and objective assessment techniques.

Description: A selected topic taught during the course. Examples include clinical neuropsychology, assessment techniques and assessment batteries, individual case conference presentation, and assessment of sexual dysfunctions.

Description: Psychological, economic, and biological perspectives on decision making in humans and nonhuman animals. Examines the role of psychological mechanisms including learning, memory, heuristics, emotions, and theory of mind in decision-making contexts such as probability judgments, risky choice, intertemporal choice, and cooperation. Includes biological component examining an evolutionary perspective on decision making.

Description: Basic skills needed in seeing a mental health client (e.g., listening, empathy, reflection and restatement) explored through didactic, group interaction and live individual interviews. Focus is preparing the student to meet their first psychotherapy client in a competent manner. Doing observing and rating pseudo and patient interviews.

Description: Reading assignments in special fields; library reading, conferences.

Description: Reading assignments in special fields; library reading, conferences.

Description: Teaching methods, philosophical perspectives to teaching, practical ideas about classroom instruction, and career issues in higher education.

Description: Theoretical and practical implications for the impact of race and ethnicity on psychological processes and functioning. The meaning of race and ethnicity for notions of self, identity acquisition and maintenance, intra- and inter-group processes, measurement of biases and discrimination. Methods to improve the treatment of race and ethnic issues within the field of psychology.

Description: Influence of culturally driven world-views on psychological functioning and on psychological theory. American psychological theory, research and practice influenced by the socialization and world-views of the contributing psychologists. Ways in which existing theory and practice accommodate--or fail to accommodate--the world-views and experiences of racial/ethnic minorities in the contemporary United States.

Description: Practical and didactic training in assessment and intervention for psychological and behavioral disorders. Emphasis on entry-level clinical skills including establishment of the therapeutic relationship, case conceptualization, and development of treatment plans within the scientist-practitioner model.

Description: Practical and didactic training in assessment and intervention for psychological and behavioral disorders. Emphasis on conceptualization of more complex cases, assessment and treatment of a broader range of cases, and evaluation of efficacy of interventions within the scientist-practitioner model.

Description: Theory and methods employed by different "schools" of therapy analyzed and related to basic psychological theory.

Description: Examines actual and potential uses of social scientific research findings and theories in the law and the methods for evaluating the quality and application of social scientific evidence. The uses of social scientific evidence to determine facts, to make law, to provide contextual background for legal decisions, to plan litigation and to assess the functioning of the legal system are examined in a variety of substantive areas. Topical coverage includes: establishing community standards in obscenity cases, the death penalty, research ethics, explaining and predicting behavior, jury decision making, eyewitness reliability and pretrial publicity.

Description: Major categories of child psychopathology, theoretical formulations of etiology of such disorders, empirical findings and issues related to each disturbance and appropriate instruments for assessing each disorder.

Description: Various child intervention techniques with an emphasis on behavioral parent training for child noncompliance.

Description: Addresses both civil and criminal issues that are likely to arise in practice. These include: civil competence for a variety of purposes; civil guardianship and conservatorship; civil commitment; confidentiality and privilege; health care provider liability in the context of mental health care; competence to proceed at several stages of the criminal process; criminal responsibility; and criminal sentencing. Critical review of the mental health laws throughout the nation and their psychological foundations. Emphasis on the research that illuminates the problems facing mental health law, system, and processes and the available solutions. Includes the insanity defense, competency to stand trial, guardianship, conservatorship, and civil commitment.

Description: In-depth analysis of specific psycholegal topics. Previous course titles have included Aging and the Law, Eyewitness Testimony, Privacy, Mental Health Policy, Legal Decision Making, Jurors/Jury Decision Making, Institutional Reform and Deinstitutionalization, Legal Policy and Child Development, Domestic Violence, Psychological Testimony in Criminal Cases: Battered Women's Cases, Expert Evidence, Children and the Law, and Psychology and Family Law.

Description: Students will contract with instructor to teach an undergraduate psychology course under supervision. Individual instruction on teaching methods, classroom assessment, and practical classroom techniques.

Description: Research design and the application of design to real research problems, including the application of statistics, problems of control, confounding, alternative explanations, demand characteristics, and experimenter effects. In addition to readings in theory of design and experimentation, the practical solution of design problems and critique of research are emphasized.

Description: Major issues involved in the evaluation of programs which deliver human services. Includes needs assessments, outcome evaluation techniques, qualitative methods, goal attainment scaling, multi-attribute utility theory, role relationships and political problems with which evaluators must contend.

Description: A substantial research and writing project on a psycholegal topic. The research is supervised and approved by a faculty member in the Law/Psychology program.

Description: A substantial research and writing project on a psycholegal topic. The research is supervised and approved by a faculty member in the Law/Psychology program.

Description: Individually supervised evaluative and diagnostic work with clinic subjects. Emphasis on the refinement of skills in evaluating and diagnosing behavior deviations.

Description: Supervised fieldwork in law and psychology. Emphasis on the integration of legal analysis and psychological research in the formulation or implementation of public policy.