Courses

• CAS PS 472: Family Violence: Theories and Research
  Studies family violence, particularly child and spouse abuse. Students learn various theories while examining epidemiologic, cross-cultural, and clinical data. Through demonstrations, students also learn basic preventative and intervention techniques.
• CAS PS 473: Introduction to Clinical Psychology
  Introduction to current diagnostic and treatment techniques in clinical psychology from empirical, applied, and theoretical perspectives. Topics covered include clinical interviewing, psychological testing, and a comparison of humanistic, analytic, and systems approaches to therapy.
• CAS PS 475: Counseling: Theory and Listening Techniques
  Introduces the theoretical underpinnings of counseling and builds students' listening skills. Extensive role-playing using audio and videotapes.
• CAS PS 491: Directed Study in Psychology
  Individual instruction and directed research in a selected topic.
• CAS PS 492: Directed Study in Psychology
  Individual instruction and directed research in a selected topic.
• CAS PS 504: Trends in Contemporary Psychology
  Various contemporary trends in psychology presented. Content varies: consult department for emphasis and topics.
• CAS PS 520: Research Methods for Perception and Cognition
  Computer-based laboratory instruction in research methods and techniques for perception and cognitive science. Students plan and conduct experiments, and analyze and present data.
• CAS PS 525: Cognitive Science
  Theories of human cognition which integrate findings from diverse fields: psychology, philosophy, linguistics, computer science, and neuroscience. Review of interdisciplinary research methodology, including connectionist modeling, and applications to questions on human thinking, problem solving, development, dysfunction, and social behavior.
• CAS PS 528: Human Brain Mapping
  Localization in the brain of human mental functions and the study of their neural mechanisms. Topics include methods (fMRI, PET, TMS, ERP), memory, perception, recognition, attention, and executive processes.
• CAS PS 529: Neuroplasticity: Enabling the Brain to Heal Itself
  Review of neurophysiological mechanisms underlying the astounding reorganizational capacity of the brain. Critical examination of ways to promote this plasticity: early childhood experiences, positive thinking, meditation, exercise, visualization, physical therapy, computerized re-training, and sensory and motor prostheses.
• CAS PS 530: Neural Models of Memory Function
  Computational models of neurobiological mechanisms for memory function and spatial navigation, with a particular emphasis on cellular and circuit models of the hippocampus and related cortical structures.
• CAS PS 542: Child Development and Public Policy
  Impact of law and government institutions on the development of children in the United States. Federal and state policy toward social services, education, and welfare; laws concerning the family, custody, child abuse, delinquency, and the rights and disabilities of minors.
• CAS PS 544: Developmental Neuropsychology
  Study of the neural mechanisms underlying behavioral development. Topics include the plasticity of the developing brain in response to deprivation or damage and mechanisms underlying specific syndromes (e.g., aphasia, dyslexia, learning disabilities, hyperactivity, autism, and Tourette's syndrome).
• CAS PS 545: Language Development
  Language development in children. The acquisition of phonological, morphological, and syntactic systems; the role of both parent and child in the acquisition of communicative competence.
• CAS PS 546: Cognitive Development
  Cognitive development from birth through early adolescence. Relationship of cognition to other traditional areas of psychology (e.g., perception, language, learning, memory, physiology, and psychopathology).
• CAS PS 549: Developmental Psychopathology
  Developmental deviations and psychological disorders of childhood. Examination of assessment techniques, treatment theories, and prevention methods. Developmental etiologies of neurotic and psychotic disturbances, effects of family patterns on the character of parent-child pathology, influence of childhood pathology on adult functioning.
• CAS PS 552: Topics in Family Research
  Intensive research seminar in which students' projects focus on family relationships or other close relationships. Experience in writing critical reviews of research literature, developing and analyzing conceptual models, collecting and analyzing data, and evaluating findings.
• CAS PS 560: Cross-Cultural Psychology
  Comparative study of psychological variables under different cultural conditions in order to identify universal aspects of human behavior, and to identify cultural influences on behavior. Applications to psychotherapy, public health, child development, education, business, and foreign relations.
• CAS PS 564: Environmental Psychology
  Interaction of people and environments. Topics include environmental perception, personal space, privacy, crowding, territoriality, social science and the design professions, environmental evaluation, and environmental stress and trauma. Multidisciplinary perspectives encouraged.
• CAS PS 565: Social and Environmental Psychology of Urban Life
  Considers urban life from the viewpoint of social and environmental psychology. Examines such topics as psychological theories of urban life, urban perception and cognition, psychological meanings of home, housing, neighborhoods, suburbs and new towns, and various pathologies of city life.

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