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Discusses how to write and put together a grant proposal for psychological research, culminating in a completed proposal. For psychology graduate students at all levels of their careers, applying to predissertation, dissertation, summer, or postdoctoral funding sources. Enrollment restricted to psychology graduate students.
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Introduces prospective majors to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes and also provides an overview for non-majors. Emphasizes social, cognitive, developmental, and personality psychology and their interrelations. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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An introduction to elementary statistical principles and techniques relevant to psychological research. Topics covered include basic parametric and nonparametric statistics, analysis of variance, and simple factorial designs. This course is prerequisite to course 181. Prerequisite(s): course 1, and Applied Mathematics and Statistics 3 or Mathematics 3 or 11A or satisfactory placement score on math placement exam or CEEB Advanced Placement Calculus AB exam. (General Education Code(s): Q.)
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An introduction to research methods used to investigate human psychology. Course emphasizes critical thinking, designing and conducting research, analyzing and interpreting data, and writing a professional research report. Prerequisite(s): course 2 or Applied Mathematics and Statistics 5. Enrollment restricted to prepsychology majors; minors by permission of instructor. (F)
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Psychological development from birth to adolescence, with primary emphasis on infancy and childhood. A broad introduction to the field of developmental psychology. Prerequisite(s): course 1. Enrollment restricted to pre-psychology majors.
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Introduces basic concepts in cognitive psychology. Topics include thinking, consciousness, perceiving, language, remembering, reasoning, problem solving, and decision-making. Prerequisite(s): course 1.
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An analysis of contemporary research in social psychology and of what that research can teach us about the world we live in. Problems of conformity, propaganda, prejudice, attraction, and aggression. Focuses on a person's relationship with other people—how he or she influences them and is influenced by them. Prerequisite(s): course 1. (F)
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Seminars taught by upper-division or graduate students under faculty supervision. (See course 192.)
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An overview of major personality theories from Freud to the modern day, and an introduction to contemporary personality research and assessment. Prerequisite(s): course 1. (W)
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Humanistic psychology is seen here as those contemporary aspects of the field which are explicitly directed toward life-enrichment for members of the culture. The course does not attempt a complete survey of these aspects, but rather explores some of them in depth and attempts to begin working toward an overall theory of the humanistic movement. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Topics covered include myth and the unconscious, the varieties of religious experience, dualism, women and religion, the role of authority, transpersonal experience, conversion, disaffiliation, self and community. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences.)
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A study of human sexuality emphasizing its psychological aspects. Sexual development, sexual orientations, biological influences, sexual attitudes and behavior, gender and gender roles, sex therapy, sexual coercion and abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, and the development of sexual relationships. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences.)
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These topics, offered at different times by different instructors, examine selected topics in developmental psychology.
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Focuses on psychological development in infancy. Presents research on perceptual, cognitive, and social-emotional development during the first two years of life. (Formerly course 107.) Prerequisite(s): courses 3 and 10.
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Focuses on individual and relational development from early adolescence into young adulthood. Emphasis on the mutual influences of family relationships and adolescent development, and on the interface of family, peer group, and school experience in cultural contexts. Prerequisite(s): courses 3 and 10.
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An introduction to cultural, biological, interpersonal, and cognitive processes that influence adult development and aging. We discuss how each of these processes promotes stability and change during adulthood. (Formerly course 109.) Prerequisite(s): courses 3 and 10.
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Cognition in children from infancy through adolescence. Basic and current research on children's understanding of the social and physical world. Focus on major theoretical perspectives: Piaget's constructivist approach, information processing approach, and sociocultural approach. (Formerly course 117.) Prerequisite(s): courses 3 and 10.
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An examination of contemporary theory and research on social and emotional development from infancy through childhood. Prerequisite(s): courses 3 and 10.
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Examines theory, research, and methods of studying the inherent cultural basis of human development and variations and similarities in human lives and activites in different communities worldwide. The approach draws on ideas and observations from psychology, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, and history. Course includes lab exercises using interview and observation methodologies and presentations of library research. (Formerly course 113.) Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements and one of the following: course 1; Anthropology 1 or 2; Education 92A, 92B, or 92C; Latin American Studies 1; or Sociology 1. (General Education Code(s): W, E.)
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Examines theory and research on developmental psychopathology. Emphasizes the origin and longitudinal course of disordered behavior. Explores the processes underlying continuity and change in patterns of adaptation and age-related changes in manifestations of disorders. (Formerly course 119.) Prerequisite(s): courses 3, 10, and 170.
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Focuses on visual and spatial representation as elements of human cognition. Topics include imagery, visual attention, mental models, spatial language, the body schema, near-body space, and brain organization for representing space. (Formerly course 130.) Prerequisite(s): course 3; course 20 or any upper-division cognitive course is highly recommended.
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Basic perceptual psychology, emphasizing the relationships between perception and cognition. Topics include shape, color, and depth; hearing, taste, smell, and touch; and perceiving faces, voices, and language. Prerequisite(s): course 3 or Biology 70.
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An examination of the physiological mechanisms of psychological processes, including sensory systems, motor systems, control systems, and memory and learning. Principles of nervous system organization are discussed at each level. Prerequisite(s): course 1 or Biology 70 and one course in statistics (course 2 or Applied Mathematics and Statistics 5 or 7).
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Focuses on the cognitive processes that underlie reading in adults. Additional topics include different writing systems, learning to read, and reading deficits. Recommended for upper-division students. Prerequisite(s): course 3.
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A study of human communication as a function of psychological, linguistic, and social factors. Topics covered include language comprehension and production, language and reasoning, and language as a social activity. Prerequisite(s): satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing and Composition requirements; course 3 or 20 or Linguistics 52 or 53 or 55. (General Education Code(s): W.)
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