Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
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.
General Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
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.
General Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session
Introduction to the principal areas, problems, and concepts of psychology.
General Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
An overview of psychology for students who will not major in the field. This course satisfies the prerequisite for upper division decade courses.
Principles of Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
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.
Introduction to How the Brain Works: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Fall 1995
Most people have an online alter ego that is stronger and sexier but also angrier, more impulsive, and less ethical. These traits can become incorporated into offline personality, turning us into our avatar. Other psychological damage comes from the lack of online privacy and our new relationship with information. But the “Net” effect is not all bad; technology can also contribute to psychological wellbeing and make possible new treatments, including computerized therapy and virtual reality exposure therapy.
Technology vs. Psychology: The Internet Revolution and the Rise of the Virtual Self: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
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.
Stress and Coping: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
This course will introduce students to the basic principles and methods of personality and social psychology as applied to a rapidly growing topic of modern society--the collection and analysis of online social “big data.” Students will learn about the ways in which big data has historically been defined, collected, and utilized, as well as fundamental concepts in person perception and social behavior that are relevant to topics of big data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
The Person in Big Data: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 Second 6 Week Session
This course will explore mental processes that allow listeners to perceive music and performers to produce it. We will compare music from various traditions to examine shared cognitive principles and emotional responses; comparisons to language will highlight neural specializations for music. Developmental psychology will inform discussion of learned vs. innate components of musical behavior. Students will design experiments to test hypotheses relating to music cognition.
Music and the Brain: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
In this course, we will examine behavior change – in you, and in those others you wish you could change -- by looking at basic principles that apply across species: operant conditioning, classical conditioning, motivation, stress and development. Animal trainers rely on very specific principles when modifying behavior, and those principles apply to every animal, human and non-human animals alike. Come learn what training animals can tell you about your own life, learning, motivation and habits!
Changing Behavior: Lessons from a Dog Trainer: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session
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.
Research and Data Analysis in Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2014 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2013 First 6 Week Session
Examination of various factors in the development of feminine and masculine roles, including personality, social processes, biology, and culture.
Psychology of Gender: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2014
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.
Drugs and the Brain: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
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.
Freshman Seminars: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
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.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2009
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.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2010
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.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2010, Spring 2010
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.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2010
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.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2011
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.
Freshman/Sophomore Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2013 10 Week Session, Summer 2013 First 6 Week Session
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.
Brain Development and Aging: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
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.
Brain, Mind, and Behavior: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 8 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 8 Week Session, Fall 2015
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.
Exploring the Brain: Introduction to Neuroscience: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Group study of selected topics. Enrollment restricted. See Introduction to Courses and Curriculum section of this catalog.
Supervised Group Study: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2012
Intended for freshmen and sophomores who wish to undertake a program of individual inquiry on a topic in psychology.
Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Summer 2017 8 Week Session
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.
Research and Data Analysis in Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
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.
Methods for Research in Psychological Sciences: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2006, Fall 2002
Dreaming is a necessary, universal nightly activity of the human mind and brain. This class will cover some of the major psychological theories, interpretations, and uses that have been made of dreams. Students will be encouraged to keep dream diaries to provide an experiential component to the class and so that they may apply the class topics and do research using the material they generate themselves.
Psychology of Dreams: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2013 10 Week Session, Summer 2013 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2012 First 6 Week Session
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.
Buddhist Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2014 Second 6 Week Session
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.
Buddhist Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 Second 6 Week Session
This course applies views and practices of Buddhist, Taoist, and Confucian schools of meditation. The emphasis in the course will be on practical and clinical applications of meditation such as working with emotions and the quest for psychological well-being. The basic laboratory technique will be various types of meditation.
Clinical Applications of East Asian Meditation Practices: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2007
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.
History of Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2015
Survey of relations between behavioral and biological processes. Topics include sensory and perceptual processes, neural maturation, natural bases of motivation, and learning.
Introduction to Biological Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 First 6 Week Session
Survey of relations between behavioral and biological processes. Topics include sensory and perceptual processes, neural maturation, natural bases of motivation, and learning.
Introduction to Biological Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2012, Fall 2010
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.
Biological Clocks: Physiology and Behavior: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
The biology of learning and neural plasticity is critical to our understanding of development, culture, behavioral change, uniqueness of individuals, and limits to an organism’s potential. We will study experimental investigations of behavior and neurobiology at the cellular and circuit level to get a basic introduction to what is known and unknown about learning and neural plasticity. Topics may include associative learning, habit formation, fear, memory systems, neurons, synapses, dendritic spines and axonal boutons, LTP, and adult neurogenesis. We will discuss these topics in the context of normal development and disease. Students will become familiar with thinking about the brain at the level of circuits, cells, synapses, and proteins.
Biology of Learning: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
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.
Hormones and Behavior: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
This course covers the neural substrates of human behavior including: neuroanatomy, major methods in human brain research (EEG, MEG, PET, MRI, fMRI, TMS, Optical Imaging), neurological disorders resulting in neurobehavioral disorders (i.e. stroke, brain tumor, epilepsy, dementia) and classic neuropsychological syndromes (i.e. amnesia, aphasia, agnosia, executive control, emotional control).
Human Neuropsychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
This course covers the neural substrates of human behavior including: neuroanatomy, major methods in human brain research (EEG, MEG, PET, MRI, fMRI, TMS, Optical Imaging), neurological disorders resulting in neurobehavioral disorders (i.e. stroke, brain tumor, epilepsy, dementia) and classic neuropsychological syndromes (i.e. amnesia, aphasia, agnosia, executive control, emotional control).
Human Neuropsychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2015, Fall 2003, Fall 2002
For a precise schedule of courses, check with the Student Services Office each semester.
Topical Seminar in Biological Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
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.
Basic Issues in Cognition: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session
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.
Basic Issues in Cognition: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Spring 2014
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.
Animal Cognition: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012
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.
Introduction to Human Learning and Memory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 Second 6 Week Session
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.
Introduction to Human Learning and Memory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 1999, Spring 1998
This course surveys the evolution of human social behaviors, seen in light of similar behaviors in other species. Topics include mating systems, parenting, cooperation, communication, learning and teaching, social norms, crime, aggression and morality. The course concludes with how humans interact socially with other species, e.g., pets and wildlife, and how human social behavior is adapting to robots and social media. Performance will be evaluated using weekly problem sets and three exams.
The Evolution of Human Social Behavior: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2014
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. There is no textbook for this course; all readings will be primary sources (e.g., journal articles).
The Developing Brain: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
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.
Perception: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
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.
Cognitive Neuroscience: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2015
For a precise schedule of offerings check with the Student Services Office each semester.
Topical Seminars in Cognitive Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2014, Spring 2013, Spring 2011
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.
Recommended Courses: Psych C120/CogSci C100 OR Psych/CogSci C127
Scientific Approaches to Consciousness: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
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.
Clinical Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2016 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2014 First 6 Week Session
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.
Clinical Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
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.
Developmental Psychopathology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 1999, Spring 1996
In this course, we examine the developmental trajectories that lead to mental illness in young children by: 1) understanding abnormal development in the context of normal development, and vice versa; 2) using a developmental approach to identify continuities and discontinuities; 3) addressing how mental illness develops and why; 4) learning the role genes and contexts of development play; 5) investigating multiple levels, and the dynamic reciprocal transactions among them; and 6) applying our knowledge to children’s real-world experiences, to better understand the mental illness, its mechanisms, and its challenges.
Applied Early Developmental Psychopathology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Fall 2013
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.
Psychology of Sleep: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2015 10 Week Session, Summer 2015 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2014 Second 6 Week Session
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.
Psychology of Sleep: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
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.
Health Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
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.
Health Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2016
Although progress has been made in developing and disseminating evidence-based treatments for most forms of mental illness, there are still huge gaps in our knowledge base. Coverage of serious mental illness with adequate and disseminable intervention strategies is all too limited. Hence, there is a great need for the next generation of clinical scientists to contribute to the mission of treatment development for mental illness. In this course we will learn about, and critique, treatment development models. We will review the steps in treatment development spanning from the study of mechanisms on to proof of concept and to establishing the feasibility of novel treatment ideas.
Treating Mental Illness: Development, Evaluation, and Dissemination: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
Although progress has been made in developing and disseminating evidence-based treatments for most forms of mental illness, there are still huge gaps in our knowledge base. Coverage of serious mental illness with adequate and disseminable intervention strategies is all too limited. Hence, there is a great need for the next generation of clinical scientists to contribute to the mission of treatment development for mental illness. In this course we will learn about, and critique, models of psychotherapy. We will review the steps in treatment development spanning from the study of mechanisms on to proof of concept and to establishing the feasibility of novel treatment ideas.
Treating Mental Illness: Development, Evaluation, and Dissemination: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2015 First 6 Week Session
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.
Human Sexuality: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
Course explores psychosomatics or mind-body interactions in a dozen diseases/disorders from recurrent ailments (e.g., asthma, gastrointestinal disorders) and chronic diseases (e.g., hypertension) to “terminal” diseases (e.g., cancer, AIDS); also included are specific disorders of appetite, sleep, and sexual functioning. For each of these, (i) symptoms (physical and psychological) are outlined, (ii) epidemiological data are used to illustrate socio-cultural underpinnings of health, and (iii) etiology examines how emotion, personality, and other psychological variables interact with the biological. Finally, (iv) psychosocial assessment and (v) cognitive-behavioral-affective treatments are presented for each disease/disorder.
Mind-Body and Health: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
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, and analyze environmental and other causal factors, with a view to possible treatment options for various mental disorders.
Case Studies in Clinical Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
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.
Developmental Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
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.
Developmental Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2014, Fall 2013
Cognitive, perceptual, and social development during the first two years of life with emphasis upon methods of observation and experimentation.
Development During Infancy: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.
Language Acquisition: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2016
This course will explore the unique biological, cognitive, social, personality and identity development of individuals aged 18 to 29. As this is an experiential course, students are expected to apply their learning through active engagement in the course material.
Emerging Adulthood: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2002 10 Week Session, Summer 2001 10 Week Session, Summer 2000 10 Week Session
This lecture course focuses on the close relationships that most individuals – usually, beginning in infancy -- will have formed during their lifetime, as well as the way such relationships can favorably or unfavorably influence an individual’s emotions and affect those of others. From infancy through young adulthood and old age, secure vs. insecure (e.g., ambivalent, avoidant, or unpredictable/frightening) relationships affect not only an individual’s happiness and general well-being, but also the eventual presence or absence of clinical symptomatology. Favorable vs. unfavorable relationships with parents, peers, close friends and romantic partners will be discussed, together with their consequences for psychological health and overall
Relationships: Development and Clinical Implications of Intimate Ties: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2014
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 favorable vs. unfavorable sequelae. Adult life-history narratives indicative of secure vs. insecure adult attachment have been found associated with care-giving of offspring.
Developmental and Biological Processes in Attachment: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2016
For a precise schedule of offerings, check with the Student Services Office each semester.
Topical Seminars in Developmental Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2009, Fall 1999, Fall 1998
This course serves as the foundation to the Early Development & Learning Science minor. It will help students understand how best to promote children’s robust early development and learning, integrating a variety of different perspectives. A wide range of approaches, representing different disciplines—education neuroscience, psychology, public health, public policy, and social work—will be presented by visiting lecturers to impart key aspects of supporting young children. Each perspective is necessary to understand and integrate with the others to most effectively address the complex problems facing young children and their families today.
Early Development & Learning Science Core Seminar: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
A new lecture and practice course designed to increase participants’ knowledge and skills in providing preschool children with high quality early learning experiences. Using the research-based CLASS© tool as a framework, students learn how to engage in more effective teacher-child interactions and create environments that promote young children’s social-emotional and cognitive development. Observation and analysis of classroom practices, through video recording, enable each student to receive individualized feedback from the instructor, as well as from peers. The focus is on professional growth, including developing abilities to support children’s cultural and linguistic diversity.
Early Learning: Engaging Interactions and Environments: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course will teach a human-centered, evidence-based method for finding new ways to solve persistent problems: Design Thinking. Design Thinking is a methodology for collaborative problem solving pioneered at the design firm IDEO and Stanford University to come up with game-changing solutions to difficult problems. As student learners accustomed to taking others’ perspectives and problem solving, we are especially well-suited to use Design Thinking.

We will be tackling the problem of children’s school readiness. The goal of this class is to find imaginative and practical solutions -- imaginative enough to be exciting and effective for children and families, and practical enough to be able to pilot these solutions during the class.

Design Thinking for ED&LS: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
A consideration of general and systematic issues in the study of personality and an evaluation of major theories and points of view.
Psychology of Personality: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 First 6 Week Session
A consideration of general and systematic issues in the study of personality and an evaluation of major theories and points of view.
Psychology of Personality: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2013, Summer 2013 First 6 Week Session
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.
Human Emotion: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
Survey of social psychology including interaction processes, small groups, attitudes and attitude change, and social problems.
Social Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
Survey of social psychology including interaction processes, small groups, attitudes and attitude change, and social problems.
Social Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2011 10 Week Session, Summer 2011 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2009 Second 6 Week Session
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.
Human Happiness: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
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.
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Terms offered: Summer 2014 10 Week Session, Summer 2014 First 6 Week Session
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.
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Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2010
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.
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Terms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2010
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.
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Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2017, Spring 2015
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.
Cultural Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2015
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.
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Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2014
For a precise schedule of offerings check with Student Services Office each semester.
Topical Seminars in Social Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
This course will explore the social, biological and neurological attributes of love and close relationships. As this is an experiential course, students are expected to apply their learning through active engagement in the course material.
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Terms offered: Summer 2013 10 Week Session, Summer 2013 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2005
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.
Industrial-Organizational Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
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.
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Terms offered: Fall 2015
A new lecture and practice course designed to increase participants’ knowledge and skills in providing preschool children with high quality early learning experiences. Using the research-based CLASS© tool as a framework, students learn how to engage in more effective teacher-child interactions and create environments that promote young children’s social-emotional and cognitive development. Observation and analysis of classroom practices, through video recording, enable each student to receive individualized feedback from the instructor, as well as from peers. The focus is on professional growth, including developing abilities to support children’s cultural and linguistic diversity.
Early Learning: Engaging Interactions and Environments: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2013
Course examines current problems and issues in psychology.
Special Topics in Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2012 10 Week Session, Summer 2012 Second 6 Week Session
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.
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Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
The Psychology Post Baccalaureate Program at UC Berkeley is intended to serve as a training program for students who have interest in pursuing graduate degrees in Psychology but who are lacking necessary academic training and research experience. In addition to the required course and lab work, Post Baccalaureate students are required to complete a two-part research learning project, called The Capstone Experience. The Capstone Experience consists of two components: an applied written submission and a formal research presentation.
Psychology Post Baccalaureate Capstone: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
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.
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Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
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.
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Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2013, Spring 2012
Independent study and preparation of an honors thesis under the supervision of a faculty member.
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Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2013
Independent study and preparation of an honors thesis under the supervision of a faculty member.
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Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
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.
Field Study in Psychology: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016
Group study of a selected topic or topics in psychology. Enrollment is restricted by regulations of the Berkeley Division listed elsewhere in this catalog.
Directed Group Study: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Spring 2016
Enrollment is restricted by regulations of the Berkeley Division listed elsewhere in this catalog.
Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+]