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Lecture—4 hours. Introduction emphasizing empirical approaches. Focus on perception, cognition, personality and social psychology, and biological aspects of behavior. Only 2 units of credit allowed for students who have completed course 15 or 16. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 15 and 16. GE credit: SocSci.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) Shaver, Johnson, Capitanio, Thompson, Tavano-Hall, Traxler
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Seminar—4 hours. Prerequisite: freshman standing. Instructor will acquaint students with his or her program of research, the development of scientific questions from the literature, and the application of research methods to examine these questions. Critical thinking will be encouraged via expository writing and brief presentations.
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Lecture—3 hours; autotutorial. Prerequisite: course 1 or the equivalent; Statistics 13 or 102 recommended. Introduction to experimental design, interviews, questionnaires, field and observational methods, reliability, and statistical inference.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) E. Post
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Lecture/laboratory—10 hours; web virtual lecture—10 hours. Prerequisite: course 1 or equivalent. Introduction to experimental design, interviews, questionnaires, observational research, qualitative approaches, case studies, content analysis, sampling, descriptive statistics, and statistical inference. Limited enrollment. Not open for credit to students who have taken course 41.—IV.
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Seminar—1-2 hours. Prerequisite: lower division standing and consent of instructor. Examination of a special topic in Psychology through shared readings, discussions, written assignments, or special activities such as fieldwork or laboratory work. May not be repeated for credit. Limited enrollment.
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Primarily for lower division students. (P/NP grading only.)
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(P/NP grading only.)
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Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: courses 1 and 41. Introduction to human information processing, mental representation and transformation, imagery, attention, memory, language processing, concept formation, problem solving, and computer simulation. Not open for credit to students who have completed former course 136.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) Gibbs, Kroll, Long, Luck
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Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: courses 1, 41. Survey and integration of the relationships between behavior and biological processes, including physiology, genes, development, ecology, and evolution.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) Coss, Krubitzer, Owings, Schank, Trainor
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Lecture—4 hours; laboratory—2 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1, 41 and Statistics 13 or 102. Pass 1 open to Psychology majors. Design and statistical analysis of psychological investigations and the interpretation of quantitative data in psychology. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 103.—I. (I.) Blozis, Grimm, Widaman
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Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: course 103A and Statistics 13 or 102. Pass 1 open to Psychology majors. Probability theory, sampling distributions, hypothesis testing, statistical inference, one-way and two-way analysis of variance, nonparametric statistics, with applications in psychology. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 105.—II, III. (II, III.) Blozis, Ferrer, Grimm, Widaman
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Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: upper division standing in Psychology, courses 41 and 103, Statistics 13. Examination of the basic principles and applications of classical and modern test theory. Topics include test construction, reliability theory, validity theory, factor analysis and latent trait theory.—Grimm, Widaman
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Lecture/discussion—2 hours; laboratory/discussion—2 hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor; course 1; course 41 or an equivalent course on social or behavioral research methods. Introduction to survey and questionnaire research methods with emphasis on how to ask questions. Social and psychological factors that influence survey response. Practical aspects of fielding survey and questionnaire research. Limited enrollment. Not offered every year.—Herek
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Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 41 and one of course 100, 130, or 132 and consent of instructor. Instruction in programming with an emphasis on programming desktop computers as an interactive research tool. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 181. (Former course 181.)
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—2 hours. Prerequisite: course 101. The biology of behavioral development; survey and integration of the organismic and environmental processes that regulate the development of behavior.—I, II. (II, III.) Schank, Owings
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Lecture/laboratory—4 hours. Prerequisite: course 100 or 101. Introduction to agent-based computer simulation and analysis with emphasis on learning how to model animals, including humans, to achieve insight into social and group behavior. Limited enrollment.—Schank
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: courses 1, 41, 101. Pass 1 open to Psychology majors. Relationship of brain structure and function to behavior, motivation, emotion, language, and learning in humans and other animals. Methodology of physiological psychology and neuroscience. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 108. (Former course 108.)—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) Bales, Krubitzer
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 101 or Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 102. Pass 1 open to Psychology majors. Advanced integrative survey of biological principles of behavioral organization, emphasizing historical roots, current research directions, conceptual issues and controversies. Laboratory exercises on the description and analysis of the behavior of captive and free living animals. (Same course as Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 150.) Not open for credit to students who have completed course 150. (Former course 150.)—III. (III.) Owings, Scheib
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Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 101 and either course 101 or Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 102. Pass 1 open to Psychology majors. Endocrine physiology with an emphasis on the principles of behavior. Fundamental relationships between hormones and various behaviors engaged in by the organism during its lifetime. Role of hormones in behavioral homeostasis, social behavior, reproductive behavior, parental behavior, adaptation to stress. (Same course as Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 152.) Not open for credit to students who have completed course 152. (Former course 152.)—III. (III.) Bales
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Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—2 hours. Prerequisite: course 101 or Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 100 or 101. Overview of the neuroanatomy of the nervous system in a variety of mammalian and non-mammalian vertebrates. Examine changes or modifications to neural structures as a result of morphological or behavioral specializations. (Same course as Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 124.)—II. (II.) Krubitzer, Recanzone
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Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: course 1, 41, 101. Pass 1 open to Psychology majors only. Psychological factors influencing health and illness. Topics include stress and coping, personality and health, symptom perception and reporting, heart disease, cancer, compliance, and health maintenance and promotion. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 160.—II, III. (II, III.) Capitanio, Emmons
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper or discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: courses 1, 41, 101. Pass 1 open to Psychology majors. Integrative review of the historical backdrop, theoretical issues, and scientific methods of studying animal cognition in a wide range of species. Emphasis on learning processes, pattern recognition, and the neurobiology of learning and memory. Not open for credit to students who have completed course 134. (Former course 134.)—II. (II.) Coss
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: Mathematics 16B, Physics 7B, course 101 or Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 100. Pass 1 open to Psychology majors. Basic mathematical modeling techniques used in neuroscience and psychology. Specific topics include linear systems theory, Fourier transforms, neural networks, adaptive systems, probabilistic inference and information theory. Emphasis on understanding information processing in neural systems. (Same course as Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 163.) Not open for credit to students who have completed course 163. (Former course 163.)—(II.) Olshausen
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Lecture—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1, 41, 101. Pass 1 open to Psychology majors. Psychobiology of sensory systems in humans and other animals. The relationship of behavior to the physiology, structure, and function of the senses. GE credit: Wrt.—I, II, III. (I, II, III) Krubitzer
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Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: courses 1, 41, 100, and either Statistics 13 or 102; or consent of instructor. Consideration of major theories of human learning and memory with critical examination of relevant experimental data.—I, II, III. (I, II, III.) Ranganath, Yonelinas
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