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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 | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI

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 | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI | Repeatable 1 times (up to 3 units total)
Instructors: Fernald, A. (PI)

PSYCH 8N: Life Span Development

Preference to freshmen. People continue to change in systematic ways throughout life, but developmental psychology has focused mostly on childhood. Focus is on conceptual models that direct developmental research on adulthood and old age, and the empirical literature concerning developmental changes in cognition, motivation, and emotion.
Last offered: Spring 2009 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI

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 | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math, WAY-AQR, WAY-FR

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 | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors: Dweck, C. (PI)

PSYCH 14N: Race and Crime

Topics in race, crime, and punishment in the United States. Readings and discussion focus on theoretical and empirical research on policing, sentencing, and incarceration. Readings will be drawn from psychology, sociology, criminology, economics, and legal studies.
Terms: Win | Units: 3

PSYCH 14SI: Scientific and Experiential Approaches to Compassion Meditation

This course offers students an introduction to guided compassion meditation practice in a systematic eight-week program called Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) developed at the Center for Compassion and Altruistic Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford. The course introduces compassion as a mental state focused on others' pain or suffering coupled with a wish or aspiration to alleviate their suffering. Students will receive instruction in class and also practice guided meditations at home that train settling the mind and cultivating compassion for oneself and others. Students will observe if the training results in changes in their day to day interactions, and students will have the opportunity to apply their compassion training in a day of service.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1-2

PSYCH 16N: Amines and Affect

Preference to freshmen. How serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine influence people's emotional lives.
Last offered: Spring 2009 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI, WAY-SMA

PSYCH 17N: Language and Society: How Languages Shape Lives

Do people who speak different languages think differently? What role does language play in politics, law, and religion? The role of language in individual cognition and in society. Breaking news about language and society; the scientific basis for thinking about these broad issues.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci

PSYCH 23N: Aping: Imitation, Control, and the Development of the Human Mind

Preference to freshmen. The idea that a childhood that prolongs a state of stimulus-bound helplessness beyond that of animals is the price human beings pay for the benefits of shared cognitive structures. How such structures enable social collaboration, language, and the transmission and sharing of knowledge. Sources include psychological data from animals and humans, and recent discoveries in neuroscience.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3
Instructors: Ramscar, M. (PI)
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