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department Psychology (X) |
Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology. This course is required for the major; students not considering a psychology major are directed to 2.
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An overview of psychology for students who will not major in the field. This course satisfies the prerequisite for upper division decade courses.
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Examination of various factors in the development of feminine and masculine roles, including personality, social processes, biology, and culture.
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The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
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Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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Weekly discussion of the nature, methods and aims of contemporary psychology. Students are expected to read an article each week and actively participate in the discussion with the speaker.
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The course will concentrate on hypothesis formulation and testing, tests of significance, analysis of variance (one-way analysis), simple correlation, simple regression, and nonparametric statistics such as chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests. Majors intending to be in the honors program must complete 101 by the end of their junior year.
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This course provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the development needs of children from birth to age 5 in the context of the varied social institutions in which they are cared for and educated. Specific attention will be focused on how children's experiences within and beyond their families vary by social class, ethnicity and language, family needs and preferences, and special needs. Students will examine how expectations for young children change over time and will become familiar with current and past policy debates about the education and social well-being of young children. Also listed as Education C116A and Social Welfare C128.
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Examines psychological research and theory pertaining to African American people. Emphasis on understanding the concerns, methods and conclusions regarding African Americans offered by American psychology from its origins to the present. Also listed as African American Studies C132.
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Dreaming is a necessary, universal nightly activity of the human mind and brain. This class will cover some of the major psychological theories, interpretations, and uses that have been made of dreams. Students will be encouraged to keep dream diaries to provide an experiential component to the class and so that they may apply the class topics and do research using the material they generate themselves.
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Based on tradition of direct observation of working of ordinary mind in everyday life situations. Provides contrasting perspective to present theories of cognition, perception, motivation, emotion, social interaction, and neurosis.
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Development of scientific study of human and animal behavior. Consideration of history of particular subject areas--such as biological, comparative, developmental, personality, and social psychology--as well as general trends.
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Survey of relations between behavioral and biological processes. Topics include sensory and perceptual processes, neural maturation, natural bases of motivation, and learning.
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Examination of various aspects of visual perception (adaptation, brightness and color vision, binocular vision, object detection) in relation to anatomy and physiology of the visual system.
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This is an upper division undergraduate course designed to explore the impact of stress (as a product of genes, environment, hormones) on brain and behavior. It will adopt both a multidisciplinary and a transdisciplinary approach to the concept of stress. What is stress, how is it measured, what are differences between acute and chronic stressor exposure on physiological processes, on the brain, how does stress affect gene expression or neurogenesis, what are the relationships between stress and disease? All of these questions will be addressed in this course. Also listed as Integrative Biology C139.
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A consideration of the biological clocks that generate daily, lunar, seasonal and annual rhythms in various animals including people. Emphasis on neuroendocrine substrates, development and adaptive significance of estrous cycles, feeding rhythms, sleep-wakefulness cycles, reproductive and hibernation cycles, body weight and migratory cycles. Also listed as Integrative Biology C143A.
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A study of theoretical and experimental investigations of the biological substrates of learning, memory and forms of neural plasticity related to the growth and maturation of the nervous system.
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Studies of animal behavior in evolutionary perspective, including analysis of behavior development, reproduction, aggression, territoriality.
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An introduction to the study of animal behavior in an evolutionary context. Topics covered include the genetic, physiological, ecological, and cognitive bases for animal behavior. This course, which emphasizes conceptual understanding of basic behavioral principles, serves as the foundation for advanced courses in behavior offered through Integrative Biology and Psychology. Three midterms and a cumulative final exam. Also listed as Integrative Biology C144.
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This course provides a comprehensive overview of behavorial endocrinology beginning with hormone production and actions on target issues and continuing with an exploration of a variety of behaviors and their hormonal regulation/consequences. The course uses a comparative approach to examine the reciprocal interactions between the neuroendocrine system and behavior, considering the effects of hormone on development and adult behavior in addition to how behavior regulates endocrine physiology. While much of the course focuses on non-human vertebrate species, the relevance to humans is explored where appropriate. Topics include sexual differentiation and sex differences in behavior, reproductive, parental, and aggressive behaviors, and hormonal and behavioral homeostatic regulation. Also listed as Integrative Biology C143B.
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A survey of contemporary psychological approaches to problems of human disabilities including mental disorders, behavior changes following human brain injury and disease, and mental subnormality. Emphasis on nervous system models of these problems and areas of potential application of basic research development.
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A survey course exploring the basic principles of psychopharmacology. The major focus of the course is on the relationship between behavior and the physiological actions of drugs. Emphasis will be placed on effects of pharmacological agents on complex mental processes such as attention, motivation, learning, and memory.
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Theoretical foundations and current controversies in cognitive science will be discussed. Basic issues in cognition--including perception, imagery, memory, categorization, thinking, judgment, and development--will be considered from the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, computer science, and physiology. Particular emphasis will be placed on the nature, implications, and limitations of the computational model of mind. Also listed as Cognitive Science C100.
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This course focuses on how animals process, organize, and retain information. Specific topics include learning and memory, sensory processes, navigation and migration, communication, and cross-species comparisons of behavior. Material will be drawn from the ethological, behavioral/experimental, and, to a lesser extent, the neurosciences literature.
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