printer friendly pagePSYCH 248: Reproducibility in Scientific Research
This seminar will discuss the ongoing reproducibility crisis in science and explore computational approaches to help enhance reproducibility. Topics will include null-hypothesis testing versus Bayesian approaches, statistical power, replication, cross-validation, and reproducible coding practices. In-class exercises will focus on computing practices such as version control, unit testing and validation, literate programming, and code reviews.
PSYCH 249: Human Motivation
Current research and theory including questions concerning the nature of human motives, intrinsic motivation, self-regulation, the roles of affect and cognition, and lifespan and cultural influences on motivation. Prerequisite: 207 or consent of instructors.
PSYCH 250: High-Level Vision: Object Representation (CS 431)
(Formerly CS423 High-Level Vision: Behaviors, Neurons, and Computational Models) Interdisciplinary seminar focusing on understanding how computations in the brain enable rapid and efficient object perception. Covers topics from multiple perspectives drawing on recent research in Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science and Applied Statistics. Emphasis on discussing recent empirical findings, methods and theoretical debates in the field. Topics include: theories of object perception, neural computations underlying invariant object perception, how visual exemplars and categories are represented in the brain, what information is present in distributed activations across neural populations and how it relates to object perception, what modern statistical and analytical tools there are for multi-variate analysis of brain activations.
PSYCH 259: Emotions: History, Theories, and Research (PSYCH 158)
Graduate students register for 259. Theoretical and empirical issues in the domain of emotions. The history of emotion theories, current approaches, and the interaction between emotion and cognition.
PSYCH 261A: Learning and Cognition in Activity (EDUC 295)
Methods and results of research on learning, understanding, reasoning, problem solving, and remembering, as aspects of participation in social organized activity. Principles of coordination that support cognitive achievements and learning in activity settings in work and school environments.
PSYCH 267: Human Memory: Facts, Fallacies, and Fragile Powers
Seminar. Applications of memory concepts in everyday life and in social and clinical settings. Topics include personal identity, childhood amnesia, autobiographic memory, emotions and memory, memory distortions, illusions, self-serving biases, recovery of repressed memories, false memories, implicit memories, and unconscious influences on social behavior, with applications to psychopathology.
PSYCH 270: The Psychology of Everyday Morality (PSYCH 179)
(Graduate students register for 270.) For graduate students, coterms, and senior Psychology majors. Traditional approaches focusing on how morality colors mundane human activities such as eating and on morality as defined by actors themselves rather than social scientists. Moral hypocrisy, food and disgust, taboo trade-offs, moral reproach, and prejudice with compunction. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite: 70 and consent of instructor.
PSYCH 272: Special Topics in Psycholinguistics
May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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for credit
PSYCH 273: Graduate Seminar on Language, Cognition, and Perception
Current topics and debates. Readings from psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, ethology, anthropology, and philosophy. May be repeated for credit.
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for credit
PSYCH 274: Graduate Research Workshop on Psychological Interventions (EDUC 287X)
Psychological research has the potential to create novel interventions that promote the public good. This workshop will expose students to psychologically 'wise' intervention research and to support their efforts to conduct such interventions, especially in the context of education, broadly conceived, as well as other areas. The first part of the class will address classic interventions and important topics in intervention research, including effective delivery mechanisms, sensitive behavioral outcomes, the role of theory and psychological process, and considerations of the role of time and of mechanisms that can sustain treatment effects over time. In the second part of the class, students will present and receive feedback on their own ongoing and/or future intervention research. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Psychology or Education, or consent of instructor.
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