Courses

• CAS PS 324: Experimental Psychology: Developmental
  Human development selected for experimental study; live subjects. Class discussion and practical experience with observational, assessment, and experimental techniques, and review of statistical concepts. Focus varies. Independent research and paper required. Courses include two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory work a week. Two 2-hour lectures per week.
• CAS PS 325: Experimental Psychology: Personality
  Systematic approaches to the study of personality. Experimental and observational investigations of selected aspects of personality. Demonstration of experimental procedures; student participation in laboratory and field studies. Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory work a week.
• CAS PS 326: Experimental Psychology: Social
  Supervised experience in formulating, carrying out, interpreting, and critically evaluating social-psychological research. Students conduct research on such topics as attraction, impressions and stereotypes, helping, aggression, conflict, etc. Variety of research techniques examined. Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory work a week.
• CAS PS 332: Behavioral Medicine
  Examines applications from the social and behavioral sciences and allied health professions as they are integrated in the practice of traditional medicine. Examples of interventional strategies, treatments, and procedures, including biofeedback and hypnosis.
• CAS PS 333: Drugs and Behavior
  Comprehensive survey of drug influences on behavior; introduces a neuroscience approach to behavior. Several classes of drugs discussed, including abused and addictive substances and psychoactive and therapeutic agents.
• CAS PS 334: Behaviorism and Everyday Life
  Traces the development of current behavioral interpretations of complex human behavior. A review of research and theory emphasizes the limits and contribution of the experimental analysis of behavior to our understanding of emotion, personality, motivation, language, consciousness, and psychopathology.
• CAS PS 336: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
  Provides an introduction to basic topics and research issues relevant to cognitive psychology. Emphasis placed on understanding how we perceive, attend, and remember information. Related topics include language, problem solving, and intelligence.
• CAS PS 337: Memory Systems of the Brain
  Survey of investigations into the brain systems and neurobiological mechanisms of memory. Includes experimental studies of amnesia in humans and experimental models of amnesia in animals. Focus on evidence for multiple forms of memory and distinct brain systems that mediate them.
• CAS PS 338: Neuropsychology
  Survey of theoretical aspects and major empirical findings in human neuropsychology, including memory, language, spatial function, attention, emotion, and abstract thought. Emphasis is on the relation between brain disorders (resulting from head injury, stroke, degenerative disease, etc.) and abnormal behavior.
• CAS PS 345: Developmental Disabilities
  Focus on the description, cause, prevention, and multidisciplinary treatment of such disorders as mental retardation, autism, and learning disability. The psychological impact of disability on families and children also stressed.
• CAS PS 354: Psychology and Criminal Justice
  The psychological perspective in understanding the offender and the offense and in dispositional planning, with special emphasis on the young adult offender. Concepts, realities, and problems in working at the interface of law and psychology.
• CAS PS 361: Racism, Sexism, and Prejudice
  Similarities and differences in racism and sexism examined as prejudice, cognitions, self-image, and group relations. Tactics, strategies, and programs of changing issues in schools and industry. Student projects.
• CAS PS 365: Toward an Experimenting Society: Psychology Applied to Social Problems
  
• CAS PS 367: Organizational and Industrial Psychology
  Applies the sociopsychological approach to individual work behavior. Such topics as effects of management approaches to organizational processes resulting in productivity and satisfaction; turbulent environment feedback; change; experiential learning of managers; and roles of the psychologist.
• CAS PS 370: Psychology of the Family
  Survey of psychological issues related to the family. Includes examination of psychological research and data on the individual's experience in the family, with special emphasis on developmental and clinical issues.
• CAS PS 371: Abnormal Psychology
  Attention to the wide range of ways in which personality may become disordered; emphasis on normal behavior development as highlighted by psychopathology. Evidence and theories concerning problems of treatment also considered.
• CAS PS 401: Senior Independent Work
  Supervised independent research in some area of psychology.
• CAS PS 402: Senior Independent Work
  Supervised independent research in some area of psychology.
• CAS PS 434: Principles of Behavior Modification
  A survey of contemporary behavioral intervention and therapy procedures as they have been applied in various settings. Methods of evaluating the effectiveness of these procedures are stressed. Open to nonconcentatrators.
• CAS PS 471: Seminar: Psychopathology
  Selected clinical syndromes; neuroses, character disorders, and schizophrenia in children or adults. Selected clinical issues such as sleep and dreaming, psychosomatic illness, attachment and loss, and depression.

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