PSYCH 1: Introduction to Psychology
Human behavior and mental processes including the nervous system, consciousness, learning, memory, development, emotion, psychopathology, interpersonal process, society, and culture. Current research.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Gross, J. (PI)
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Hard, B. (PI)
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Kao, J. (PI)
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Knutson, B. (PI)
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Ang, Y. (TA)
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Brady, S. (TA)
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Colich, N. (TA)
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Eggleston, C. (TA)
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Haimovitz, K. (TA)
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Higginbotham, G. (TA)
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Horowitz, A. (TA)
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Howe, L. (TA)
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Jasuja, S. (TA)
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Kao, J. (TA)
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Kim, B. (TA)
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Limcaoco, P. (TA)
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Mehta, H. (TA)
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Muramoto, L. (TA)
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Murashige, C. (TA)
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Nordmeyer, A. (TA)
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Romero, C. (TA)
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Shurick, A. (TA)
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Stefanidi, K. (TA)
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Szczurek, L. (TA)
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Weinhardt, M. (TA)
PSYCH 2N: Aging and Time Perspective
Preference to freshmen. Human beings are unique in their ability to monitor time and appreciate their place in the life cycle. Goals set within temporal contexts may be pursued at different times in life. Review of literature on adult development and motivation; how perceived time influences life course trajectories. (Carstensen)
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
PSYCH 3N: Culture and Mind
Preference to freshmen. The role of culture in cognition, emotion, and motivation.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
PSYCH 5N: The Psychology of Shyness
Preference to freshmen. The causes, correlates, consequences, and treatments for shyness. Analysis focuses on temperament, and situational and cultural factors.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
PSYCH 6N: Remembering and Misremembering
Preference to freshmen. Discussion of experiments and cases of errors, biases, distortions, and omissions in memory, and understanding them in light of a theory of memory.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
PSYCH 7Q: Language Understanding by Children and Adults
How do we first learn to find meaning in strings of speech sounds? Understanding spoken language requires the rapid integration of acoustic information with linguistic knowledge and with conceptual knowledge based on experience with how things happen in the world. Topics include research on early development of language understanding and laboratory methods of how young children make sense of speech. Observations of preschool children and visits to Stanford laboratories. Might be repeatable for credit.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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Repeatable for credit
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Fernald, A. (PI)
PSYCH 8N: The New Longevity
Adult development from the perspective of life-span theory -- a conceptual framework that views development as a series of adaptations to physical, societal and individual resources and constraints. Students will learn about demographic and medical changes, ways that individuals typically change socially, emotionally and cognitively as they move through adulthood. An understanding of the conceptual foundations of the life-span approach and place aging of young people today in historical context.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
PSYCH 10: Introduction to Statistical Methods: Precalculus (STATS 60, STATS 160)
Techniques for organizing data, computing, and interpreting measures of central tendency, variability, and association. Estimation, confidence intervals, tests of hypotheses, t-tests, correlation, and regression. Possible topics: analysis of variance and chi-square tests, computer statistical packages.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
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Units: 5
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UG Reqs: GER:DBMath
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
Instructors:
Bacallado, S. (PI)
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Baiocchi, M. (PI)
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Thomas, E. (PI)
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Walther, G. (PI)
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Yanes, R. (PI)
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Diaz, M. (TA)
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He, J. (TA)
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Hoffmann Bion, R. (TA)
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Humphries, A. (TA)
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LaRocque, K. (TA)
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Lewis, M. (TA)
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Manke, K. (TA)
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Rodriguez, C. (TA)
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Sorenson, J. (TA)
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Wisdom, A. (TA)
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Yanes, R. (TA)
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Zhang, S. (TA)
PSYCH 11N: Origin of Mental Life
Preference to freshmen. Mental life in infancy; how thinking originates. How do babies construe the objects, events, people, and language that surround them? Recent advances in psychological theory, hypotheses, and evidence about how the infant human mind develops.
Terms: not given this year
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit
PSYCH 12N: Self Theories
Preference to freshmen. The impact of people's belief in a growing versus fixed self on their motivation and performance in school, business, sports, and relationships. How such theories develop and can be changed.
Terms: Aut
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Units: 3
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UG Reqs: GER:DBSocSci
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Grading: Letter (ABCD/NP)
Instructors:
Dweck, C. (PI)