Learning, Emotions and Motivation will be explored from animal models of clinical conditions, historical case studies in humans of brain-derived emotional disturbances, and current innovations to treat brain disorders. These important discoveries will be presented for students to understand underlying biological and neural mechanisms that mediate adaptive changes to motivate healthy behavior.

Surveys the major empirical and theoretical concepts in social psychology.

This course covers a variety of special topics in the field of psychology.

Overview of research and theory related to sexual orientation across the lifespan from the standpoint of the social sciences. Topics include conceptualization of sexual identities, origins and development of sexual orientation, sexual identity formation and disclosure. Selected issues such as couple relationships, employment and careers, parenthood, and aging are also explored, since they may be affected by sexual orientation. Prerequisite: Third- or fourth-year psychology major

This course aims to discuss the state-of-the-art in the large field of cognitive aging and the main lifespan predictors that lead to healthy aging.

Topical Offerings in Psychology

Course covers the foundations of psychology & statistical techniques used in behavioral science, in particular foundations of traditional statistical testing, R programming, modern statistical testing using bootstrapping & resampling, & very basic introduction to Factor Analysis & applications of information theory. The course has 3 lecture hours & 2 lab hours that teaches computational aspects of the course in R. Basic training in R required.

This seminar provides an overview of the cognitive perspective in accounting for thought (e.g., varieties of representation) as well as particular cognitive processes (e.g., attention, memory).

Topics include psychological and linguistic theory; experimental and empirical studies of linguistic usage; development of language in infants and children; cross-cultural studies of linguistic usage; and the biology of language.

Includes Chi-square tests for contingency tables, correlation, multiple regression, analysis of variance of one-way and factorial designs including repeated measures experiments, and analysis of covariance. Extension work with SPSS and MANOVA computer routines. Prerequisite: PSYC 7710 or equivalent.