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How do we measure personality and emotion? What parts of your personality and emotions are set at birth? What parts of your personality and emotions are shaped by your sociocultural context? Can your personality and emotions make you sick? Can you change your personality and emotions? These are questions we begin to address in this introductory course on personality and emotion. Prerequisite:
Psych 1.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Tsai, J. (PI)
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Lim (Chun Hui), C. (TA)
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Mehta, A. (TA)
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Instructors:
Tsai, J. (PI)
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Lim (Chun Hui), C. (TA)
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Mehta, A. (TA)
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Parks, K. (TA)
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Petrova, K. (TA)
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Tordecillas, A. (TA)
PSYCH 90: Introduction to Clinical Psychology: A Neuroscience Perspective
This course will provide students with an overview of the field of clinical psychology, the various roles of clinical psychologists in research and practice, and implications of current research in neuroscience for clinical psychology. We will discuss the definition and history of clinical psychology as a profession, research methods used in clinical psychology, issues in diagnosis and classification of disorders, techniques used in the assessment of intellectual and personality functioning, various approaches to therapeutic intervention, and issues related to ethics, professionalism, and training in clinical psychology. Throughout this course we will review and integrate relevant research in the field of clinical neuroscience with our discussion and understanding of clinical psychology.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
PSYCH 95: Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
Theories of and approaches to understanding the phenomenology, etiology, and treatment of psychological disorders among adults and children. Research findings and diagnostic issues. Recommended:
PSYCH 1.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
PSYCH 101: Community Health Psychology (HUMBIO 128)
Social ecological perspective on health emphasizing how individual health behavior is shaped by social forces. Topics include: biobehavioral factors in health; health behavior change; community health promotion; and psychological aspects of illness, patient care, and chronic disease management. Prerequisites:
HUMBIO 3B or
PSYCH 1 or consent of the instructor
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
PSYCH 102: Longevity (HUMBIO 149L, MED 229)
Interdisciplinary. Challenges to and solutions for the young from increased human life expectancy: health care, financial markets, families, work, and politics. Guest lectures from engineers, economists, geneticists, and physiologists.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
PSYCH 132: Language and Thought (SYMSYS 132)
Languages vary tremendously in how they allow us to express ourselves. In some languages, you have to say when an event happened (past, present, future, etc.), while in others it is obligatory to say how you know about the event (you saw it, you heard about it), or what genders its participants were. In addition, languages just feel different from one another - some feel poetic while others feel brutal. Some things just don't sound right in certain languages, and some translations are harder than others to pull off. But are these differences meaningful? Do differences across languages cause substantive changes in the cognition of their speakers? We'll read some of the burgeoning research literature on these questions and consider how they can be answered with new empirical tools.
Last offered: Spring 2019
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
PSYCH 138: Wise Interventions (PSYCH 238, PUBLPOL 238)
Classic and contemporary psychological interventions; the role of psychological factors in social reforms for social problems involving healthcare, the workplace, education, intergroup, relations, and the law. Topics include theories of intervention, the role of laboratory research, evaluation, and social policy.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors:
Walton, G. (PI)
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Dada, A. (TA)
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Hashemi, R. (TA)
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Instructors:
Walton, G. (PI)
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Dada, A. (TA)
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Hashemi, R. (TA)
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King, S. (TA)
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Remache, L. (TA)
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Saadatian, K. (TA)
PSYCH 141: Cognitive Development
How do humans think, learn, and communicate? What are the developmental roots of these capacities, and what makes young children such remarkable learners? This course aims to offer an understanding of how human cognition - the ability to think, reason, and learn about the world - changes in the first few years of life. We will review and evaluate both classic findings and state-of-the-art research on cognitive development and understand the logic behind the scientific methods for studying cognition in young children. By the end of the course, students will gain a deeper understanding of the major theoretical accounts of intellectual growth as well as the key empirical findings that support (or refute) these accounts, understand the basic logic of scientific methods in cognitive development research, and be able to discuss implications of cognitive development research on real-world issues in education and social policy. PSYCH141 is an Area A course for 2019-2020. Prerequisites:
PSYCH 1. Recommended:
PSYCH 60
Last offered: Autumn 2019
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
PSYCH 145A: Monitoring the Crisis (PUBLPOL 141, SOC 141, SOC 241, URBANST 149)
A course devoted to understanding how people are faring as the country's health and economic crisis unfolds. The premise of the course is that, as important and valuable as surveys are, it's a capital mistake to presume that we know what needs to be asked and that fixed-response answers adequately convey the depth of what's happening. We introduce a new type of qualitative method that allows for discovery by capturing the voices of the people, learn what they're thinking and fearing, and understand the decisions they're making. Students are trained in immersive interviewing by completing actual interviews, coding and analyzing their field notes, and then writing reports describing what's happening across the country. These reports will be designed to find out who's hurting, why they're hurting, and how we can better respond to the crisis. Students interested should submit the following application:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdOZsnpOCg4zTRbVny0ikxpZEd1AFEEJh3K9KjvINyfbWMGw/viewformnnThe course is open to students who have taken it in earlier quarters, with repeating students allowed to omit the training sessions and, in lieu of those sessions, complete additional field work and writing. Field work will include unique interviews with new participants each lab period, along with corresponding coding, analyses, and reports.
Last offered: Winter 2021
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
PSYCH 150: Race and Crime (CSRE 150A, PSYCH 259)
The goal of this course is to examine social psychological perspectives on race, crime, and punishment in the United States. Readings will be drawn not only from psychology, but also from sociology, criminology, economics, and legal studies. We will consider the manner in which social psychological variables may operate at various points in the crimina; justice system- from policing, to sentencing, to imprisonment, to re-entry. Conducted as a seminar. Students interested in participating should attend the first session and complete online application for permission at
https://goo.gl/forms/CAut7RKX6MewBIuG3.
Last offered: Spring 2022
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI
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