Practice in application of psychological techniques to clinical settings and counseling. Taught with staffs of cooperating institutions and agencies. Credit, variable; may be repeated for additional credit.

Functional MRI has become one of the leading methods in cognitive neuroscience for exploring brain-behavior relationships. Through a combination of lectures and lab exercises involving real functional MRI data, this course provides students with the conceptual and hands-on experience they will need to independently design and analyze functional MRI studies. Students will learn to use MATLAB/SPM for analyzing functional MRI data.

The Psychology of Current events gives students the time and resources to examine the world around them through a Social Psychological lens. We will explore topics such as race, class, and gender as we draw material from the news, psychological journal articles, and primary source texts. Using these foundational texts as a jumping off point, we will discuss the social psychological underpinnings of the events currently affecting the world today. This class requires student participation and is writing intensive.

What are we? What defines us? How did human culture arise? We communicate with spoken and written language, we make tools to build even more complicated tools, we learn calculus to solve differential equations, we use inductive reasoning to seek generalizable knowledge, we understand other people?s mind and emotion, we understand humor, we lie, cheat, and deceive others. Are these what makes us human? This course examines psychological and neuroscientific bases of human mind and behavior that are uniquely related to human culture and experience (that is, humanity).

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This course will prepare psychology majors interested in pursuing careers
in psychology by 1) focusing on experiences students should seek during
their time as undergraduates to better prepare them for psychology related
careers, 2) educating students on the variety of careers psychology majors
can pursue after graduation and 3) examining the various forms of graduate
study in the numerous areas of psychology.

An overview of systems neuroscience, with special emphasis on cognition, including perception, recognition, attention, and motor control. Includes both theoretical and lab components covering neuroanatomy, neurohistology, brain imaging, and behavioral analysis.

The purpose of this seminar course is to understand how our brain allows learning from past experience to guide future choices and actions, which is the core of today's Neuroeconomics research topic. We will review the current literature in the cognitive neuroscience of human learning and decision making with particular focus on the basic elements influencing these behaviors such as, motivation, reward processing and error-based learning. We will further discuss how these basic elements interact with the external environment (e.g.

This course is an introduction to how the social sciences and the science of psychology, in particular, can contribute to the public policy arena. It is designed to provide students with a foundation for understanding a variety of psychological theories, how they can and are used to influence social policy, and what the social sciences can tell us about major social policy issues.

Research methods in psychology including single subject and group experiments, case studies, psychological test construction and observational field techniques. Emphasis on hands-on experience in labs and on lab reports.