Psychology (PSYCH)
PSYCH 1 General Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology. This course is required for the major; students not considering a psychology major are directed to 2.
Students will not receive credit for 1 after taking 2.
PSYCH N1 General Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology. This course is required for the major; students not considering a psychology major are directed to 2.
Students will not receive credit for Psychology N1 after taking Psychology 1 or 2.
PSYCH W1 General Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7.5 hours of lecture/discussion per week for 6 weeks.3 hours of lecture/discussion per week. This is an online course.
Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology.
Students will not receive credit for Pyschology W1 after taking Psychology 1, Psychology N1, or Psychology 2. Formerly known as N1. Instructor: Kihlstrom
PSYCH 2 Principles of Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
An overview of psychology for students who will not major in the field. This course satisfies the prerequisite for upper division decade courses.
Students will not receive credit for 2 after taking 1.
PSYCH 3 Introduction to How the Brain Works 1 Unit
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 3 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: A year of college-level general biology for majors.
This course will give a rigorous yet accessible overview of our current understanding of how the brain works and how it is altered by experience. Specifically, the class provides: an introduction to the structure and function of the sensory and motor systems; discussions of disorders and phenomena such as blindsight, synaesthesia, color blindness, and phantom limbs; and a lecture with presentation of classical experiments on the capacity of the young and adult brain for plasticity and learning.
PSYCH 6 Stress and Coping 2 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture per week. 5 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Psychology 1, N1, W1, 2, or equivalent.
This course is designed to provide students with an in-depth analysis of the various areas within the field of psychology that address topics related to stress and coping. In particular, we will cover the biological, social, personality, cognitive, and clinical factors that play a role in the development of stress and subsequent coping techniques that can be used to deal with stress. The class will have a strong focus on the empirical findings relating to the subject.
PSYCH 10 Research and Data Analysis in Psychology 4 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week. 6 hours of lecture and 4 hours of laboratory per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: Completion of the general psychology prerequisite (1, N1, or W1) and one of the following quantitative prerequisites: Math 10A-B, Statistics 2, or consent of instructor.
The class covers research design, statistical reasoning, and statistical methods appropriate for psychological research. Topics covered in research design include the scientific method, experimental versus correlational designs, controls and placebos, within and between subject designs and temporal or sequence effects. Topics covered in statistics include descriptive versus inferential statistics, linear regression and correlation and univariate statistical tests: t-test, one way and two-way ANOVA, chi-square test. The class also introduces non-parametric tests and modeling. Prospective Psychology majors need to take this course to be admitted to the major.
Students will not receive credit for Psych 10 after having completed Psych 101.
PSYCH 14 Psychology of Gender 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Examination of various factors in the development of feminine and masculine roles, including personality, social processes, biology, and culture.
PSYCH C19/L & S C30T/MCELLBI C62 Drugs and the Brain 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Letters and Science; Molecular and Cell Biology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
The history, chemical nature, botanical origins, and effects on the human brain and behavior of drugs such as stimulants, depressants, psychedelics, analgesics, antidepressants, antipsychotics, steroids, and other psychoactive substances of both natural and synthetic origin. The necessary biological, chemical, and psychological background material for understanding the content of this course will be contained within the course itself.
Students will receive no credit for C62 after taking 62, C100A/Chemistry C130, 102, 104, 110, 130A, 136, C160/Neuroscience C160,<BR/>Integrative Biology 132, Letters and Science C30T, or Psychology C19 . <BR/> Instructor: Presti
PSYCH 24 Freshman Seminars 1 Unit
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 39AC Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
This interdisciplinary seminar will explore the large and disturbing socio-economic and racial/ethnic disparities in health...and search for their causes. The social circumstances in which we are born, live, and work become 'biologically embedded' and put us at a risk for stroke, heart disease, poor mental health, and academic achievement. This seminar will explore why some populations get sicker more often in the first place, i.e. the role of inequality, racism, and neglect in breeding disease.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Student will receive no credit for 39AC after taking 39J.
PSYCH 39E Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Seminar format.
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 39I Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Seminar format.
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 39J Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Seminar format.
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 39K Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Seminar format.
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 39L Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Seminar format.
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 39M Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 - 4 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: Seminar format.
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 48 Brain Development and Aging 1 Unit
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 3 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: One year of college level biology.
This is an introductory survey course on brain and cognitive development. It gives an overview of brain structure and function and how it changes throughout life. Topics include: effect of pre-natal maternal and paternal behavior in brain development; critical periods; experience-dependent changes in the brain; the adolescent brain; and the aging brain. We will also discuss developmental disorders such as Down syndrome and the putative benefits of exercise and diet to brain health.
Students will receive no credit for Psychology 48 after taking Psychology 125.
PSYCH C61/MCELLBI C61 Brain, Mind, and Behavior 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Molecular and Cell Biology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Introduction to human brain mechanisms of sensation, movement, perception, thinking, learning, memory, and emotion in terms of anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the nervous system in health and disease. Intended for students in the humanities and social sciences and others not majoring in the biological sciences.
Students will receive no credit for C61 after taking 61, W61, or Psychology C61. A deficient grade in 61, W61, or Psychology C61 may be removed by taking C61. Instructor: Presti
PSYCH C64/MCELLBI C64 Exploring the Brain: Introduction to Neuroscience 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Molecular and Cell Biology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: High school chemistry or Chemistry 1A; high school biology or Biology 1A. Biology 1AL is not required.
This course will introduce lower division undergraduates to the fundamentals of neuroscience. The first part of the course covers basic membrane properties, synapses, action potentials, chemical and electrical synaptic interactions, receptor potentials, and receptor proteins. The second part of the course covers networks in invertebrates, memory and learning behavior, modulation, vertebrate brain and spinal cord, retina, visual cortex architecture, hierarchy, development, and higher cortical centers.
Students will receive no credit for Molecular and Cell Biology/Psychology C64 after taking Molecular and Cell Biology C61/Letters and Science C30W, 104, 100A/Chemistry C130, Molecular and Cell Biology 110, 130A, 136, 160, C160/Neuroscience C160, or Integrative Biology 132. Students may remove a deficient grade in Molecular and Cell Biology C64/Psychology C64 after Molecular and Cell Biology 64. Instructor: Caporale
PSYCH 98 Supervised Group Study 1 - 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 3 hour of Directed group study per week for 15 weeks.
Group study of selected topics. Enrollment restricted. See Introduction to Courses and Curriculum section of this catalog.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 99 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Zero hours of Independent study per week for 15 weeks. 2 to 6 hours of Independent study per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 7.5 hours of Independent study per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or consent of instructor and 3.4 GPA or higher.
Intended for freshmen and sophomores who wish to undertake a program of individual inquiry on a topic in psychology.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 101 Research and Data Analysis in Psychology 4 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of lecture/discussion per week. 10 hours of lecture/discussion per week for 8 weeks. 12.5 hours of lecture/discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 and completion of the quantitative prerequisites for the major.
The course will concentrate on hypothesis formulation and testing, tests of significance, analysis of variance (one-way analysis), simple correlation, simple regression, and nonparametric statistics such as chi-square and Mann-Whitney U tests. Majors intending to be in the honors program must complete 101 by the end of their junior year.
PSYCH 102 Methods for Research in Psychological Sciences 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Laboratory per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101.
Lecture and computer lab course on advanced data analysis techniques used by researchers in psychology. The course will cover programming techniques in R and data analysis methods that include modeling, multivariate statistics, and data reduction and visualization techniques. The following topics will be covered: generalized linear model (includes logistic regression), discriminant analysis (includes multivariate ANOVA), principal component analysis, and factor analysis.
Instructor: Theunissen
PSYCH C102/AFRICAM C139 Psychology and African-Descent People 3 Units
Department: Psychology; African American Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 8 hours of lecture per week for 4 weeks.
The course will provide a deconstruction of the use of Euro-American psychological research and theory pertaining to African-descent people and will present an African-centered theoretical perspective for understanding identity construction among selected populations within the African diaspora. Readings, lectures, and class discussions will facilitate increases in students' ability to conceptualize important issues and concerns as researchable questions and develop appropriate methodologies for conducting research.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Instructor: Mitchell
PSYCH 107 Buddhist Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Based on tradition of direct observation of working of ordinary mind in everyday life situations. Provides contrasting perspective to present theories of cognition, perception, motivation, emotion, social interaction, and neurosis.
Students will not receive credit for Psych 107 after having completed Psych N107.
PSYCH N107 Buddhist Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Psychology 1, Psychology 2, or equivalent
Based on tradition of direct observation of working of ordinary mind in everyday life situations. Provides contrasting perspective to present theories of cognition, perception, motivation, emotion, social interaction, and neurosis.
Students will not receive credit for Psych N107 after having completed Psych 107.
PSYCH 109 History of Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101 or consent of instructor.
Development of scientific study of human and animal behavior. Consideration of history of particular subject areas--such as biological, comparative, developmental, personality, and social psychology--as well as general trends.
PSYCH 110 Introduction to Biological Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 and biological prerequisites for the major or consent of instructor.
Survey of relations between behavioral and biological processes. Topics include sensory and perceptual processes, neural maturation, natural bases of motivation, and learning.
PSYCH N110 Introduction to Biological Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 and biological prerequisites for the major or consent of instructor.
Survey of relations between behavioral and biological processes. Topics include sensory and perceptual processes, neural maturation, natural bases of motivation, and learning.
Students will receive no credit for Psychology N110 after completing Psychology 110. A deficient grade in Psychology 110 may be removed by taking Psychology N110.
PSYCH C113/INTEGBI C143A Biological Clocks: Physiology and Behavior 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Integrative Biology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Completion of biological prerequisites for the major and one of the following: 110 or a course in animal organismal physiology (Integrative Biology 132, 138, 140, 148, or Molecular and Cell Biology 160).
A consideration of the biological clocks that generate daily, lunar, seasonal and annual rhythms in various animals including people. Emphasis on neuroendocrine substrates, development and adaptive significance of estrous cycles, feeding rhythms, sleep-wakefulness cycles, reproductive and hibernation cycles, body weight and migratory cycles.
PSYCH 114 Biology of Learning and Neural Plasticity 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 110 or consent of the instructor.
A study of theoretical and experimental investigations of the biological substrates of learning, memory and forms of neural plasticity related to the growth and maturation of the nervous system.
PSYCH C116/INTEGBI C143B Hormones and Behavior 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Integrative Biology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Completion of biological prerequisites for the major and consent of instructor; a course in mammalian physiology recommended.
This course provides a comprehensive overview of behavorial endocrinology beginning with hormone production and actions on target issues and continuing with an exploration of a variety of behaviors and their hormonal regulation/consequences. The course uses a comparative approach to examine the reciprocal interactions between the neuroendocrine system and behavior, considering the effects of hormone on development and adult behavior in addition to how behavior regulates endocrine physiology. While much of the course focuses on non-human vertebrate species, the relevance to humans is explored where appropriate. Topics include sexual differentiation and sex differences in behavior, reproductive, parental, and aggressive behaviors, and hormonal and behavioral homeostatic regulation.
PSYCH 117 Human Neuropsychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 110.
A survey of contemporary psychological approaches to problems of human disabilities including mental disorders, behavior changes following human brain injury and disease, and mental subnormality. Emphasis on nervous system models of these problems and areas of potential application of basic research development.
PSYCH 119 Drugs and Behavior 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 110 or consent of instructor.
A survey course exploring the basic principles of psychopharmacology. The major focus of the course is on the relationship between behavior and the physiological actions of drugs. Emphasis will be placed on effects of pharmacological agents on complex mental processes such as attention, motivation, learning, and memory.
Students will receive no credit for 119 after taking Letters and Science 19 or Molecular and Cell Biology 62.
PSYCH C120/COG SCI C100 Basic Issues in Cognition 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Cognitive Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 3.5 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Theoretical foundations and current controversies in cognitive science will be discussed. Basic issues in cognition--including perception, imagery, memory, categorization, thinking, judgment, and development--will be considered from the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, computer science, and physiology. Particular emphasis will be placed on the nature, implications, and limitations of the computational model of mind.
Students will receive no credit for C120 after taking 120A.
PSYCH 121 Animal Cognition 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 115B or consent of instructor.
This course focuses on how animals process, organize, and retain information. Specific topics include learning and memory, sensory processes, navigation and migration, communication, and cross-species comparisons of behavior. Material will be drawn from the ethological, behavioral/experimental, and, to a lesser extent, the neurosciences literature.
PSYCH 122 Introduction to Human Learning and Memory 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 101 is recommended.
Theoretical and experimental analysis of human learning and memory; short-term and long-term memory; coding and retrieval processes; transfer and interference; mechanisms of forgetting.
PSYCH C123/COG SCI C131 Computational Models of Cognition 4 Units
Department: Psychology; Cognitive Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Calculus, discrete mathematics, C1, Computer Science 61A, or equivalents.
This course will provide advanced students in cognitive science and computer science with the skills to develop computational models of human cognition, giving insight into how people solve challenging computational problems, as well as how to bring computers closer to human performance. The course will explore three ways in which researchers have attempted to formalize cognition -- symbolic approaches, neural networks, and probability and statistics -- considering the strengths and weaknesses of each.
PSYCH C124/COG SCI C124 Psycholinguistics 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Cognitive Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Introduction to psycholinguistics, emphasizing effects of psychological variables on the learning and use of language, influence of language behavior on psychological processes; special attention to psychological applicability of modern linguistic theory and to social psychological aspects of language behavior.
PSYCH 125 The Developing Brain 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
What are the changes in brain structure and function that underlie improvements in cognitive abilities over childhood and adolescence? Or, coming from a different perspective, what insights can we gain regarding the neural basis of cognition by examining how the brain develops? And how are such findings relevant for medicine, education, and the law? The cutting-edge new field of developmental cognitive neuroscience is beginning to address these and other questions. This course will consititute an overview of current research and methods in this field, focusing on both typically and atypically developing children and adolescents.
Students will receive no credit for 125 after taking 192 Fall 2007.
PSYCH C126/COG SCI C126 Perception 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Cognitive Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. 101 recommended.
An introduction to principal theoretical constructs and experimental procedures in visual and auditory perception. Topics will include psychophysics; perception of color, space, shape, and motion; pattern recognition and perceptual attention.
PSYCH C127/COG SCI C127 Cognitive Neuroscience 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Cognitive Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 110 or 120A or C120B, or Cog Sci C100.
This course will examine research investigating the neurological basis of cognition. Material covered will include the study of brain-injured patients, neurophysiological research in animals, and the study of normal cognitive processes in humans with non-invasive behavioral and physiological techniques such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Topics to be covered include perception, attention, memory, language, motor control, executive control, and emotion.
PSYCH 128 Topical Seminars in Cognitive Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
For a precise schedule of offerings check with the Student Services Office each semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH C129/COG SCI C102 Scientific Approaches to Consciousness 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Cognitive Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or Cognitive Science C1; or 120A or C120B or Cognitive Science C100.
This course will examine the nature of human consciousness from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science. It will cover topics from the philosophy of mind, cognitive linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, and computational models.
PSYCH 130 Clinical Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1.
Theoretical and empirical approaches to the explanation of psychological dysfunction. The relation between theories of psychopathology and theories of intervention. A critical evaluation of the effects of individual, family, and community approaches to therapeutic and preventive intervention. Thematic focus of the course may change from year to year. See department notices for details.
Student will not receive credit for Psych 130 after having completed Psych N130.
PSYCH N130 Clinical Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1.
Theoretical and empirical approaches to the explanation of psychological dysfunction. The relation between theories of psychopathology and theories of intervention. A critical evaluation of the effects of individual, family, and community approaches to therapeutic and preventive intervention. Thematic focus of the course may change from year to year. See department notices for details.
Students will not receive credit for Psych N130 after having completed Psych 130.
PSYCH 131 Developmental Psychopathology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 130 or consent of instructor.
This course will discuss linkages between developmental processes and child psychopathology. Included will be discussion of cognitive impairments in children, including learning disabilities and mental retardation; internalizing disorders, such as anxiety, withdrawal, and depression; externalizing disorders, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder; and child abuse and neglect. Psychobiological, familial, legal, and societal factors will be emphasized.
PSYCH 133 Psychology of Sleep 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course has two primary goals: (1) to provide a basic introduction to the study of sleep and an overview of sleep measurement, regulation, ontogeny, phylogeny, physiology, and psychology; and (2) to provide a basic introduction to sleep disorders including their classification, cause, and treatment.
PSYCH N133 Psychology of Sleep 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course has two primary goals: (1) to provide a basic introduction to the study of sleep and an overview of sleep measurement, regulation, ontogeny, phylogeny, physiology, and psychology; and (2) to provide a basic introduction to sleep disorders including their classification, cause, and treatment.
Students will not receive credit for Psych N133 after having completed Psych 133.
PSYCH 134 Health Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Psychology 1, N1, W1, 2, or Psychology C19/Molecular and Cell Biology C62/Letters and Science C30T.
This course will provide students with an introduction to Health Psychology. Students will learn about measurement of psychological, behavioral, and biological constructs; incidence and prevalence of psychological and medical disorders; introductions to endocrinology, immunology, and psychophysiology and how these systems are thought to relate psychology to health; as well as introductions to how science is working to understand psychology and health in the laboratory and across the population.
PSYCH 136 Human Sexuality 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Biological, social, and clinical issues in sexuality. Topics include psychology and physiology of sexual response, new developments in contraception, homosexuality and lesbianism, variations in sexual behavior, gender identity and role, definition and treatment of sexual dysfunction. Approved for state psychology licensing requirement.
PSYCH 136X Human Sexuality 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 to 6 hours of Lecture and 1 to 2 hour of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Biological, social, and clinical issues in sexuality. Topics include psychology and physiology of sexual response, new developments in contraception, homosexuality and lesbianism, variations in sexual behavior, gender identity and role, definition and treatment of sexual dysfunction. Approved for state psychology licensing requirement.
PSYCH 139 Case Studies in Clinical Psychology 2 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Psychology 130, 131, or equivalent.
This course is for students who are curious about clinical psychology and who seek to explore real world cases and examples of mental health diagnoses. Through the use of clinical cases and first-person accounts, this course will give an overview of the diagnostic criteria mental health providers use to make diagnoses, discuss environmental and genetic casual factors, and explore available treatment options for various mental illnesses.
PSYCH 140 Developmental Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1.
This course explores the development of children from birth to adolescence, in a wide range of areas including biological, cognitive, linguistic, social, and personality development. It also covers the effects of genes, experience, and social context on children's development.
PSYCH N140 Developmental Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1.
This course explores the development of children from birth to adolescence, in a wide range of areas including biological, cognitive, linguistic, social, and personality development. It also covers the effects of genes, experience, and social context on children's development.
Students will not receive credit for Psych N140 after having completed Psych 140.
PSYCH 141 Development During Infancy 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 140.
Cognitive, perceptual, and social development during the first two years of life with emphasis upon methods of observation and experimentation.
PSYCH C143/LINGUIS C146 Language Acquisition 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Linguistics
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
An overview of topics and theories in language acquisition: early development of speech perception and production, word learning, generalizing linguistic structure, and differences between first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and bilingualism. We will also compare different theoretical approaches, and address the classic "nature vs. nurture" question by examining both traditional generativist approaches and more recent usage based models.
Formerly known as Linguistics C146/Psychology C143.
PSYCH 145 Coping and Adaptation in Childhood and Adolescence 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course will examine basic processes in and contextual influences on social and emotional development. Topics will include major milestones of social and emotional development, the causes of disruptions in healthy development, and the theoretical concepts and models of development in everyday contexts.
PSYCH 146 Developmental and Biological Processes in Attachment 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 110 or consent of instructor.
This course on attachment theory provides an integrative (evolutionary/genetic/experiential) approach to studying secure vs. insecure parent-child relationships; their precursors in parental rearing patterns and genetics; and their favorable vs. less favorable psychological sequelae for children. Adult life-history narratives indicative of secure vs. insecure adult attachment have been found associated with care-giving of offspring and change from insecure to secure adult attachment is discussed.
PSYCH 147 Contemporary Parenting 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course examines theories of parent-child relationships in the context of human development. The influences of ethnicity and immigration status, cultural values and expectations, and socioeconomic status on the parenting process are explored. We will discuss contemporary parenting philosophies and several issues of relevance (divorce and blended families, dual worker and single parent families, older and younger parents, child abuse, adoption, etc.).
Instructor: Strage
PSYCH 147X Contemporary Parenting 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 to 6 hours of Lecture and 1 to 2 hour of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course examines theories of parent-child relationships in the context of human development. The influences of ethnicity and immigration status, cultural values and expectations, and socioeconomic status on the parenting process are explored. We will discuss contemporary parenting philosophies and several issues of relevance (divorce and blended families, dual worker and single parent families, older and younger parents, child abuse, adoption, etc.).
PSYCH 148 Topical Seminars in Developmental Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
For a precise schedule of offerings, check with the Student Services Office each semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 150 Psychology of Personality 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1.
A consideration of general and systematic issues in the study of personality and an evaluation of major theories and points of view.
PSYCH N150 Psychology of Personality 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1.
A consideration of general and systematic issues in the study of personality and an evaluation of major theories and points of view.
Students will not receive credit for Psych N150 after having completed Psych 150.
PSYCH 156 Human Emotion 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course will examine two different theoretical perspectives on emotion: (1) the differential emotions approach with its strong evolutionary grounding, and (2) the social constructionist approach. Next, the course will investigate empirical research on many facets of emotion including facial expression, physiology, appraisal, and the lexicon of emotion. Finally, we will consider more specific topics including social interaction, culture, gender, personality, and psychopathology.
PSYCH 160 Social Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1.
Survey of social psychology including interaction processes, small groups, attitudes and attitude change, and social problems.
PSYCH N160 Social Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1.
Survey of social psychology including interaction processes, small groups, attitudes and attitude change, and social problems.
Students will not receive credit for Psych N160 after having completed Psych 160.
PSYCH 162 Human Happiness 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 160 or consent of instructor.
This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of happiness. The first part of the course will be devoted to the different treatments of happiness in the world's philosophical traditions, focusing up close on conceptions or the good life in classical Greek and Judeo-Christian thought, the great traditions in East Asian thought (Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism), and ideas about happiness that emerged more recently in the age of Enlightenment. With these different perspectives as a framework, the course will then turn to treatments of happiness in the behavioral sciences, evolutionary scholarship, and neuroscience. Special emphasis will be given to understanding how happiness arises in experiences of the moral emotions, including gratitude, compassion, reverence and awe, as well as aesthetic emotions like humor and beauty.
Students will receive no credit for 162 after taking C162, Letters and Science C160V or 160C.
PSYCH C162/L & S C160V Human Happiness 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Letters and Science
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of happiness. The first part of the course will be devoted to the different treatments of happiness in the world's philosophical traditions, focusing up close on conceptions or the good life in classical Greek and Judeo-Christian thought, the great traditions in East Asian thought (Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism), and ideas about happiness that emerged more recently in the age of Enlightenment. With these different perspectives as a framework, the course will then turn to treatments of happiness in the behavioral sciences, evolutionary scholarship, and neuroscience. Special emphasis will be given to understanding how happiness arises in experiences of the moral emotions, including gratitude, compassion, reverence and awe, as well as aesthetic emotions like humor and beauty.
PSYCH N162 Human Happiness 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Psychology 160 or consent of instructor.
This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to an understanding of happiness. We will first review the different treatments of happiness in the world’s philosophical traditions: conceptions of the good life in classical Greek and Judeo-Christian thought, the great East Asian philosophies, and ideas about happiness that emerged in the age of Enlightenment. With these different perspectives as a framework, the course will turn to treatments of happiness in the behavioral sciences, evolutionary scholarship, and neuroscience. Special Emphasis will be given to understanding how happiness arises in experiences of the moral emotions, including gratitude, compassion, reverence and awe, and aesthetic emotions like humor and beauty.
Students will receive no credit for Psychology N162 after taking Psychology 162, or Psychology C162/Letters and Science C160V. A deficient grade in Psychology 162 may be removed by taking Psychology N162.
PSYCH 164 Social Cognition 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: C120 or 150 or 160, or Cog Sci C100.
Surveys empirical and theoretical approaches to our understanding of perception, memory, thought, and language concerning ourselves, other people, interpersonal behavior, and the situations in which social interaction takes place. Emphasis is placed on the integration of problems in social, personality, and clinical psychology with the concepts and principles employed in the study of nonsocial cognition.
PSYCH 165 Psychology of Creativity 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1, sophomore standing.
This is a course on creativity, both at the individual and the group level. We will consider traits of highly creative individuals (vs. less creative individuals) and the ways in which they think. We will also investigate the ways in which influence processes affect individual creativity and will then focus on group creativity, including techniques by which creativity is hindered or stimulated. Finally, we will consider applications from organizations as we consider cultures in which creativity thrives. Throughout the course, discussion will be encouraged and we will also do some experiential exercises. The course will be a combination of lecture, discussion, and experiential learning.
PSYCH 166AC Cultural Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week. 7 hours of lecture and zero hours of discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1; 160 is recommended.
The course will review research on culture, race, and ethnicity and will consider the implications of these findings for our understanding of race, culture, and ethnicity in American society. Mounting evidence suggests that psychological processes are culture-specific, theory-driven, and context-dependent. This course will focus on the effects that theories of mind, person, self, and social institutions have on human cognition, motivation, emotion, and social interactions in American society. Students will gain a better appreciation of the ways that cultural traditions and social practices regulate and transform psychological functioning. Simply, the course is about how culture affects psyche and how psyche affects culture.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
PSYCH 167AC Stigma and Prejudice 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1 or consent of instructor.
Traditionally, research on prejudice and stereotyping has focused on the psychological mechanisms that lead people to be biased against others. Recent research has begun to shed light on the psychological legacy of prejudice and stereotyping for their targets. This course will review the major contributions of each of these literatures, providing students with a broad understanding of both classic and current issues in the field. The course will be divided into three sections: bias (i.e., the perpetrator's perspective), stigma (i.e., the target's perspective), and intergroup relations.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
PSYCH 168 Topical Seminars in Social Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
For a precise schedule of offerings check with Student Services Office each semester.
Course may be repeated for credit with different topic and consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 180 Industrial-Organizational Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Primarily for majors. Introduction to the field of industrial psychology, covering fundamental theory and concepts in personnel and social aspects in the field. Concerned with the processes involved in developing and maintaining organizations.
PSYCH N180 Industrial-Organizational Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7 hours of lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Primarily for majors. Introduction to the field of industrial psychology, covering fundamental theory and concepts in personnel and social aspects in the field. Concerned with the processes involved in developing and maintaining organizations.
Students will receive no credit for Psychology N180 after taking Psychology 180. A deficient grade in Psychology 180 may be removed by taking Psychology N180.<BR/>
PSYCH 192 Special Topics in Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Course examines current problems and issues in psychology.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 192AC Child Development in Different Cultures 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 2 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course explores "culture" as a context for development from both global and American sub-group perspectives, through developmental stages from early childhood to adolescence, across physical, social and cognitive domains. It will examine traditional theories and modern systems theories with respect to individual and social contexts, discuss the experience of sub-groups of American children and conclude with a comprehensive analysis of the development of an individual.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
PSYCH H194A Honors Seminar 2 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Required of and limited to psychology majors in the honors program. H195A-H195B should be taken concurrently.
In the fall semester the seminar will concentrate on issues of research design, ethics, and data analysis using statistical packages. The spring semester will focus on oral and written presentations of the thesis projects and feedback on thesis drafts.
PSYCH H194B Honors Seminar 2 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Required of and limited to psychology majors in the honors program. H195A-195B should be taken concurrently.
In the fall semester the seminar will concentrate on issues of research design, ethics, and data analysis using statistical packages. The spring semester will focus on oral and written presentations of the thesis projects and feedback on thesis drafts.
PSYCH H195A Special Study for Honors Candidates 1 - 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Open only to senior psychology majors in the Honors Program.
Independent study and preparation of an honors thesis under the supervision of a faculty member.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 units.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 units.
PSYCH H195B Special Study for Honors Candidates 1 - 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Open only to senior psychology majors in the Honors Program.
Independent study and preparation of an honors thesis under the supervision of a faculty member.
Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 units.Course may be repeated for a maximum of 6 units.
PSYCH 197 Field Study in Psychology 1 - 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: 1; appropriate upper division work in psychology (to be determined by instructor). Consent of instructor.
Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of psychology in off-campus settings. Individual and/or group meetings with faculty. Enrollment is restricted by regulations of the Berkeley Division listed elsewhere in this catalog.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 198 Directed Group Study 1 - 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Group study of a selected topic or topics in psychology. Enrollment is restricted by regulations of the Berkeley Division listed elsewhere in this catalog.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 199 Supervised Independent Study and Research 1 - 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Enrollment is restricted by regulations of the Berkeley Division listed elsewhere in this catalog.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 205A Data Analysis 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion/laboratory per week.
Students will need to work through problems (homework). A general data analytic course that emphasizes design issues and problems, from pure experimental research through field studies. Techniques of ANOVA and multiple regression/correlation will be presented as analytical models for both lab and field research.
PSYCH 205B Data Analysis 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion/laboratory per week.
Students will need to work through problems (homework). A general data analytic course that emphasizes design issues and problems, from pure experimental research through field studies. Techniques of ANOVA and multiple regression/correlation will be presented as analytical models for both lab and field research.
PSYCH 210A Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A survey of the field of biological psychology. Areas covered are (a) cognitive neuroscience; (b) biological bases of behavior; (c) sensation and perception (d) learning and memory, (e) thought and language.
PSYCH 210B Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A survey of the field of biological psychology. Areas covered are (a) cognitive neuroscience; (b) biological bases of behavior; (c) sensation and perception (d) learning and memory, (e) thought and language.
PSYCH 210C Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A survey of the field of biological psychology. Areas covered are (a) cognitive neuroscience; (b) biological bases of behavior; (c) sensation and perception (d) learning and memory, (e) thought and language.
PSYCH 210D Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
A survey of the field of biological psychology. Areas covered are (a) cognitive neuroscience; (b) biological bases of behavior; (c) sensation and perception (d) learning and memory, (e) thought and language.
PSYCH 210E Proseminar: Cognition, Brain, and Behavior 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A survey of the field of biological psychology. Areas covered are (a) cognitive neuroscience; (b) biological bases of behavior; (c) sensation and perception (d) learning and memory, (e) thought and language.
Formerly known as 220C.
PSYCH 214 Functional MRI Methods 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course will provide an overview of functional MRI methodology. Topics to be covered include the basic physics of fMRI, the nature of BOLD fMRI signal, the spatial and temporal resolution of fMRI, issues in experimental design, and statistical techniques used for analyzing fMRI data. The class will review published studies as well as ongoing research projects that address questions regarding brain-behavior relationships. Students will have the opportunity for hands-on experience performing an fMRI experiment and analyzing the data.
PSYCH 222 Consciousness 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Survey of psychological, philosophical, and neuroscientific approaches to consciousness. Introspection. The mind-body problem. Automaticity. Explicit-implicit dissociations in memory, perception, and thought. Implicit emotion and motivation. Sleep and dreams. Anesthesia and coma. Hypnosis. Meditative states. Consciousness in nonhuman animals and computing machines.
Formerly known as 220B.
PSYCH C223/EDUC C229A Proseminar: Problem Solving and Understanding 3 Units
Department: Psychology; Education
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Students will examine problem solving in children and adults, from a predominantly cognitive science perspective, beginning with an examination of thinking involved in diverse problem types. Students will then analyze the literature concerning cognitive issues that transcend problem types, including representation, "understanding," access and availability of knowledge, access to one's own cognitive processing, categorization, the architecture of knowledge, and the control of cognition.
PSYCH 229 Cognition, Brain, and Behavior Colloquium 1 Unit
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Colloquium per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Reports and discussions of original research in the area of cognitive psychology. Not all participants must report in any given semester, but all are expected to attend and to enter into the discussions. Required course for all students in the cognition, brain, and behavior graduate program.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 230 Proseminar: Clinical Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Required of all 1st-year Clinical Science Program graduate students.
This course is a review of the history and theory of the field of clinical psychology. The course covers adult and child psychopathology, ethnic minority mental health, culture, and community influences.
Formerly known as 230A-230B.
PSYCH 233A Clinical Assessment: Theory, Application, and Practicum 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: First-year status as graduate student in clinical psychology or enrollment in limited training in clinical psychology.
The clinical interview and principles and methods of intellectual, objective, and projective clinical assessment. Readings, discussion, and supervised experience in clinical assessment. The first semester will focus on adult assessments; the second semester will focus on child/adolescent assessments. Required of all clinical students.
PSYCH 233B Clinical Assessment: Theory, Application, and Practicum 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: First year status as graduate student in clinical psychology or enrollment in limited training in clinical psychology.
The clinical interview and principles and methods of intellectual, objective, and projective clinical assessment. Readings, discussion, and supervised experience in clinical assessment. The first semester will focus on adult assessments; the second semester will focus on child/adolescent assessments. Required of all clinical students.
PSYCH 234D Theories of Cognitive Behavior Therapy 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Central features of cognitive behavior therapy; basics of several cognitive-behavioral theories; evidence of efficacy and effectiveness of methods; methods for assessing, conceptualizing and treating patients; theories, methods, and efficacy evidence for several disorders, primarily anxiety and affective disorders.
PSYCH 236 Specialty Clinic 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Clinic per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Open only to Clinical Science Program graduate students.
A Specialty Clinic is offered to graduate students in the Clinical Science program. Each course combines didactics and hands-on clinical work. Students in the course work with the instructor to develop the topic of interest by reviewing the empirical literature, defining and developing an intervention/consultation, defining a clinical population, marketing and delivering the intervention/consultation, and evaluating the effectiveness of the intervention/consultation. A number of readings are included in the course, and class discussion is a central part of the course. Written products are also a part of the course, either in the form of a presentation or publication of findings from the clinic. A Specialty Clinic also includes its own Case Conference and supervisors to handle supervision of the clinical cases.
PSYCH 237E Professional Development in Clinical Science 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of individual meetings per week.
Prerequisites: Limited to second and third year clinical psychology students or consent of instructor.
Issues in decisions about providing psychological services to individuals, families, groups and social systems.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 237F Intervention: Couples Therapy 1 Unit
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Limited to second- and third-year clinical psychology students or consent of instructor.
Psychological intervention with couples.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 237G Intervention: Specialty Clinics 1 or 2 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 2 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Limited to second- and third-year clinical psychology students or consent of instructor.
Psychological intervention with and evaluation of specially designated populations.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 237H Intervention: Introduction to Clinical Methods 1 Unit
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Limited to first-year clinical psychology students or consent of instructor.
This course is an introduction to clinical methods in preparation for the clinical practicum in the Psychology Clinic during the second and third years of the clinical graduate program. Topics covered include clinical policies and procedures, legal and ethical issues, risk management, standards of care, HIPAA, and consultations.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 239 Clinical Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Reports and discussions of original research in the area of clinical psychology. Not all participants need report in any given semester, but all are expected to attend and to enter into the discussions. Required course for all students in the clinical graduate program.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 240A Proseminar: Biological, Cognitive, and Language Development 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Survey of the biology of the nervous system and behavior; the cellular interactions during development in animals and humans, including neurogenesis, synaptogenesis, cell death and synapse elimination; and the genetic and experiential determinants of neural development. Exploration of the origins and development of knowledge from infancy through childhood; the development of children's concepts across multiple domains including physics, biology, math, and psychology. Survey of facts and theories of language acquisition; focus on what learners acquire and the role of input in the process; review of phonology, syntax, and morphology.
PSYCH 240B Proseminar: Emotional, Social, and Psychopathological Development 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Survey of current research and theory on the origins and maintenance of normal and pathological socioemotional development in infancy. Exploration of biological, psychological, familial, and cultural factors affecting social and emotional development through childhood and adolescence. Focus of the course includes how normal or pathological trajectories are maintained in some children, while others shift into or out of clinically diagnosable disorders.
PSYCH 249 Developmental Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Reports and discussions of original research in the area of developmental psychology. Not all participants need report in any given semester, but all are expected to attend and to enter into the discussions. Required course for all students in the developmental graduate program.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 250A Perspectives in Personality: Overview 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Introduces the perspectives and research programs of the personality faculty to graduate students having an interest in their field. Each week, attention is directed to the work of a different faculty member associated with the personality program.
PSYCH 250B Perspectives in Personality: Trends and Issues 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Considers historical trends and current discussions regarding such topics as (1) the concept of disposition; (2) person by environment transactions; (3) observational assessment of persons; (4) personality systematics; (5) personality development and concepts of structure, and (6) formulations of personality system-social system interactions.
PSYCH 250C Proseminar: Social Cognition 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Surveys empirical and theoretical approaches to our understanding of perception, memory, thought, and language concerning ourselves, other people, interpersonal behavior, and the situations in which social interaction takes place. Emphasis is placed on the integration of problems in social, personality, and clinical psychology with the concepts and principles employed in the study of nonsocial cognition.
PSYCH 250D Principles and Pragmatics of Personality Measurement 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Methods of personality measurement and assessment, with particular attention to the qualities, attributes, talents and dispositions considered in the everyday evaluations people make of self and others.
PSYCH 259 Personality Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
Reports and discussions of original research in the area of personality psychology. Not all participants need report in any given semester, but all are expected to attend and to enter into the discussions. Required course for all students in the personality graduate program.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 260B Proseminar Course in Social Psychology 3 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Extensive coverage of theoretical and research literature. Topics include history and systems, attitudes and attitude change, interpersonal processes, motivation, social interaction, small groups, and organizational behavior. Required course for all students in the social graduate program.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 269 Social Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 1.5 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.
Reports and discussion of original research in the area of social psychology. Not all participants need report in any given semester, but all are expected to attend and to enter into the discussions. Required for all students in the social graduate program.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 290B Seminars: Biological 2 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 290E Seminars: Perception 2 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 290H Seminars: Developmental 2 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 290I Seminars: Personality 2 Units
Department: Psychology
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 2 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PSYCH 290J Seminars: Social 2 Units