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PSYC 101 - INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3 Survey of topics, problems, and approaches in contemporary psychology. Includes the biological basis of behavior, sensation, perception, attention, learning and memory, thinking, language, abnormal behavior and therapies, personality and individual differences. Required for psychology majors. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 102 - READINGS IN INTRODUCTORY PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 1 Discussion of articles and research reports in psychology. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 202 - INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3 Overview of topics in social psychology. Includes conformity and social influence, attitude formation and change, aggression, altruism, relationships, liking and loving, prejudice and stereotyping, as well as applications to other disciplines (e.g. law, marketing, the workplace, etc.). Required for psychology majors. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 203 - INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3 An introduction to topics in cognitive psychology including perception, memory, psycholinguistics, problem solving and decision making. Required for psychology majors. Recommended prerequisite: PSYC 101. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 231 - INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3 An overview of the principles, techniques, and theories of psychology applied in the industrial setting. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 260 - UNDERGRADUATE PROFESSIONAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 1 This seminar will provide students interested in psychology with an opportunity to explore psychology as a major and a career. Through guest lecturers, group discussions, and class projects, students will learn about diverse fields and potential career paths in psychology. Instructor permission required College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 308 - MEMORY Credits: 3 Critical review of traditional and contemporary approaches to the study of remembering and forgetting. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 309 - PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Credits: 3 Study of human and other animal communication. Includes the structure of human language, word meaning and semantic memory, psychological studies of syntax, bilingualism, language and thought, and language errors and disorders. Cross-list: LING 309. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 315 - INTRODUCTION TO SEMANTICS Credits: 3 Introduction to basic approaches to the study of meaning in linguistics and related fields. Includes the cognitive representation of meaning, lexical categorization, conceptual structures, metaphor/metonymy, meaning change, pragmatic inference, and the relation of language and mind. Cross-list: LING 315. Recommended prerequisite: LING 200 or ANTH 200. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 321 - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3 Study of behavioral changes with age and general laws in both human and nonhuman species. Recommended Prerequisite: PSYC 202 and PSYC 203. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 325 - LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Credits: 3 This course focuses on some of the central aspects of first language acquisition. Topics include statistical learning; the use of special kinds of input modification ('motherese'); how children's grammatical, lexical-semantic, and phonological systems develop; the critical period hypothesis; and language development in the absence of a conventional model ('home sign'). Cross-list: LING 325. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 329 - PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING Credits: 3 Offers a detailed examination of psychological test development and analysis. Topics include an exploration of different forms of psychological tests (e.g. intelligence, attitudes, personality, clinical), reliability and validity of tests, and practical issues in testing such as test bias (e.g. gender differences). College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 330 - PERSONALITY THEORY AND RESEARCH Credits: 3 Examination of those aspects of personality emphasized by major theorists past and present. Recommended prerequisite(s): PSYC 340. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 331 - PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER Credits: 3 Overview of research and theory on gender in psychology. Cross-list: SWGS 331. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 332 - ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR Credits: 3 Study of the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 339 - STATISTICAL METHODS-PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 4 Introduction to quantitative and computer methods applicable to the analysis of experimental and correlational data. Required for psychology majors. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 340 - RESEARCH METHODS Credits: 4 A continuation of PSYC 339, with emphasis on individual student experiments and the writing of research reports. Required for psychology majors. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 341 - HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION Credits: 3 Study of design and evaluation of interactive computing systems for human use and the major phenomena surrounding them. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 342 - COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Credits: 3 The use of computers in psychological research and in usability engineering. The emphasis will be on dynamic HTML and JavaScript. Topics will include designing and running psychology experiments to run on the web and the use of web-based video. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: PSYC 504. Instructor permission required College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 350 - PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING Credits: 3 A consideration of historically important and modern perspectives on learning. Both human and animal research will be discussed. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 351 - PSYCHOLOGY OF PERCEPTION Credits: 3 Overview of the sensory and cognitive processes involved in human vision and audition. Not offered every year. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 353 - PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTION AND MOTIVATION Credits: 3 Study of motives and emotions as causes of human behavior includes biological motives, aggression, emotions and emotional expression, and individual differences in motivation. Recommended Prerequisite(s): PSCY 203. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 360 - THINKING Credits: 3 Study of the higher mental processes. Includes problem solving, judgment, decision making, and reasoning. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: PSYC 527. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 362 - BIOPSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3 Overview of the neurophysiological correlates of behavior. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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PSYC 370 - INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN FACTORS AND ERGONOMICS Credits: 3 Application of principles of psychology and human performance to the design of modern systems. College: School of Social Sciences Department: Psychology
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