printer friendly pagePSYCH 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 279: Topics in Cognitive Control
The processes that enable flexible behavior by biasing contextually relevant perceptual, mnemonic, and response representations or processing pathways. Cognitive control is central to volitional action, allowing work with memory, task/goal states, and overriding inappropriate responses. Current models of cognitive control, functional neuroimaging, and neuropsychological evidence. Recommended: 45.
| Repeatable
for credit
PSYCH 286: The Psychology of Everyday Morality (PSYCH 186)
Recent literature on morality from a social psychological perspective. Topics include moral judgment, moral intuitions, moral hypocrisy, moral identity, moralization, moral reproach, shame and guilt, temptations, and self-regulation. Contemporary psychological research emphasizing descriptive approaches (what people actually do) rather than normative ones (what one should do).
PSYCH 288: Hierarchical Linear Modeling for Psychological Sciences
HLM is a statistical theory and a computer program used to analyze multi-level data, such as trials within participants or students within classrooms. HLM allows researchers to analyze data at each level of analysis separately, to partition the total variance across different levels, to explain variance at each level separately using level-appropriate predictors, and to model cross-level interactions. How to use the HLM program and to model various types of multi-level data using it. May be repeated for credit.
PSYCH 290: Graduate Research Methods
Primary tool use for psychologists: basics of experiment design; computer-based experiments; web-based experiments; data analysis packages and data presentation; exploratory statistics; eye-tracking methods; psychophysiology methods; survey construction; corpus and discourse analysis; and perhaps hypnosis. Prerequisite: Ph.D. student in Psychology.
PSYCH 291: Psychology Teaching Methods
Open to graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Principles of good teaching. Students practice teaching skills.
PSYCH 299: Temptations and Self Control (PSYCH 199)
(Graduate students register for 299.) Why do people do things that that they come to regret? How can people minimize behavior such as exercise avoidance, angry words, overeating, unsafe sex, and dangerous driving? Sources include classical and current research from experimental psychology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, and neuroeconomics. Real-world applications.
PUBLPOL 53SI: Creating and Analyzing Public Policy: The Roosevelt Institution
How to get your work into the public discourse. Students work in groups to draft policy recommendations for local policymakers serving as project sponsors.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
for credit
PUBLPOL 101: Politics and Public Policy (POLISCI 123, PUBLPOL 201)
How policies come to be formed. How interests compete within public institutions to turn ideas into policies. Examples of this process from contemporary policy areas, including tax, social welfare, and environmental policy; results evaluated using equity and efficiency criteria. Prerequisite:
POLISCI 2 (or equivalent for Public Policy majors).
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci
PUBLPOL 102: Organizations and Public Policy (PUBLPOL 202)
Analysis of organizational processes emphasizing organizations that operate in a non-market environment. Prerequisite:
ECON 1A.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Bendor, J. (PI)
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