Psy 15
Social Psychology
9 units (3-0-6)
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third term
The study of how people think about other people and behave toward or around others. Topics include attribution, social cognition, motivation and incentive, social influence, liking, stereotyping, deception, fairness and altruism, and conformity.
Instructor:
Paul
Psy 16
Understanding Psychological Disorders
9 units (3-0-6)
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first term
A descriptive and theoretical survey of the major forms of psychopathology in children, adolescents, and adults. The course will examine current trends and research in the fields of mental health and psychopathology.
Instructor:
Paul
Psy 20
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
9 units (3-0-6)
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first term
This course will develop basic concepts in how humans process different kinds of information such as visual, auditory, and symbolic. These concepts will then be used to explore topics such as visual perception, attention and automaticity, working and long-term memory, imagery, knowledge representation, language acquisition and comprehension, judgement and choice, reasoning and decision making, problem solving, and group differences.
Instructor:
Tudusciuc
Psy 25
Reading and Research in Psychology
Units to be determined by the instructor
Not available for credit toward humanities-social science requirement. Written report required. Graded pass/fail. Not offered 2014-15.
Psy 101
Selected Topics in Psychology
Units to be determined by arrangement with the instructor
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offered by announcement
Instructor:
Staff
CNS/SS/Psy/Bi 102 ab
Brains, Minds, and Society
9 units (3-0-6)
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second, third terms
Prerequisites: Bi/CNS/NB 150 and CNS/Bi/Ph/CS/NB 187, or instructor's permission.
Introduction to the computations made by the brain during economic and social decision making and their neural substrates. First quarter: Signal detection theory. Unconscious and conscious processing. Emotion and the somatic marker hypothesis. Perceptual decision making. Reinforcement learning. Goal and habit learning. Facial processing in social neuroscience. Second quarter: Optimal Bayesian decision making and prospect theory. Standard and behavioral game theory. Evolution and group decision making. Collective decision making by animals. Exploration. Risk learning. Probabilistic sophistication. Part b not offered 2014-15; part a offered WI term 2014-15.
Instructors:
Adolphs, O'Doherty
Psy/CNS 105 ab
Frontiers in Neuroeconomics
5 units (1.5-0-3.5)
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first term
The new discipline of Neuroeconomics seeks to understand the mechanisms underlying human choice behavior, born out of a confluence of approaches derived from Psychology, Neuroscience and Economics. This seminar will consider a variety of emerging themes in this new field. Some of the topics we will address include the neural bases of reward and motivation, the neural representation of utility and risk, neural systems for inter-temporal choice, goals vs habits, and strategic interactions. We will also spend time evaluating various forms of computational and theoretical models that underpin the field such as reinforcement-learning, Bayesian models and race to barrier models. Each week we will focus on key papers and/or book chapters illustrating the relevant concepts.
Instructor:
O'Doherty
Ec/Psy 109
Frontiers in Behavioral Economics
9 units (3-0-6)
Prerequisites: Ec 11.
Behavioral economics studies agents who are biologically limited in computational ability, willpower and pure self-interest. An important focus is how those limits interact with economic institutions and firm behavior. This reading-driven course will cover new papers that are interesting and draw attention to a topic of importance to economics. Readings will cover lab and field experiments, axiomatic models of behavioral phenomena, and welfare. Each weekly discussion will begin with a 10-minute overview, then an inspection of the paper's scientific machinery, judge whether its conclusions are justified, and speculate about the scope of its generalizability. It should help students as referees and as writers. Assignments are two 1000-word summary-critiques. Not offered 2014-15.
CNS/SS/Psy 110 abc
Cognitive Neuroscience Tools
5 units (1.5-0-3.5)
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a = third term
This course covers tools and statistical methods used in cognitive neuroscience research. Topics vary from year to year depending on the interests of the students. Recent topics include statistical modeling for fMRI data, experimental design for fMRI, and the preprocessing of fMRI data; part a offered spring term; bc not offered 2014-15.
Psy 125
Reading and Research in Psychology
Same as Psy 25, but for graduate credit. Not available for credit toward humanities-social science requirement.
Psy/CNS 130
Introduction to Human Memory
9 units (3-0-6)
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second term
The course offers an overview of experimental findings and theoretical issues in the study of human memory. Topics include iconic and echoic memory, working memory, spatial memory, implicit learning and memory; forgetting: facts vs. skills, memory for faces; retrieval: recall vs. recognition, context-dependent memory, semantic memory, spreading activation models and connectionist networks, memory and emotion, infantile amnesia, memory development, and amnesia. Not offered 2014-15.
CNS/Psy/Bi 131
The Psychology of Learning and Motivation
9 units (3-0-6)
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second term
This course will serve as an introduction to basic concepts, findings, and theory from the field of behavioral psychology, covering areas such as principles of classical conditioning, blocking and conditioned inhibition, models of classical conditioning, instrumental conditioning, reinforcement schedules, punishment and avoidance learning. The course will track the development of ideas from the beginnings of behavioral psychology in the early 20th century to contemporary learning theory. Not offered 2014-15.
CNS/Bi/SS/Psy/NB 176
Cognition
12 units (6-0-6)
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third term
The cornerstone of current progress in understanding the mind, the brain, and the relationship between the two is the study of human and animal cognition. This course will provide an in-depth survey and analysis of behavioral observations, theoretical accounts, computational models, patient data, electrophysiological studies, and brain-imaging results on mental capacities such as attention, memory, emotion, object representation, language, and cognitive development. Offered 2014-15.
Instructor:
Shimojo
SS/Psy/Bi/CNS 255
Topics in Emotion and Social Cognition
9 units (3-0-6)
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third term
Prerequisites: Bi/CNS/NB 150 or instructor's permission.
This course will cover recent findings in the psychology and neurobiology of emotion and social behavior. What role does emotion play in other cognitive processes, such as memory, attention, and decision making? What are the component processes that guide social behavior? To what extent is the processing of social information domain-specific? Readings from the current literature will emphasize functional imaging, psychophysical, and lesion studies in humans. Not offered 2014-15.
Published Date:
July 28, 2022