Department: Psychology

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PSYCH1 Introduction to Psychology An introduction to the science of how people think, feel, and behave. We will explore such topics as intelligence, perception, memory, happiness, personality, culture, social influence, development, emotion, and mental illness. Students will learn ab...
PSYCH10 Introduction to Statistical Methods: Precalculus 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...
PSYCH101 Community Health Psychology 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,...
PSYCH102 Longevity 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.
PSYCH102S Introduction to Neuroscience Introduction to structure and function of the nervous system. The course first surveys neuroscience research methods, physiology, and gross anatomy. We then study the brain systems which produce basic functions such as perception and motion, as well...
PSYCH103 Intergroup Communication In an increasingly globalized world, our ability to connect and engage with new audiences is directly correlated with our competence and success in any field How do our intergroup perceptions and reactions influence our skills as communicators? This...
PSYCH103F Intergroup Communication Facilitation Are you interested in strengthening your skills as a facilitator or section leader? Interested in opening up dialogue around identity within your community or among friends? This course will provide you with facilitation tools and practice, but an eq...
PSYCH105S General Psychology In what ways does the scientific study of psychology increase our understanding of the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors we observe and experience in everyday life? What are the main areas of psychology and the different questions they seek to answer...
PSYCH108S Introduction to Social Psychology This course aims to blend a comprehensive overview of social psychology with in-depth lectures exploring the history of the field, reviewing major findings and highlighting areas of current research. The course will focus on classic studies that have...
PSYCH110S Introduction to Cultural Psychology In an increasingly globalized world, the ability to understand people from different cultural backgrounds, as well as understand how we are influenced by our own cultural contexts, is an essential skill. In this course, we will consider the many ways...
PSYCH111S Abnormal Psychology This course will provide an introduction to abnormal psychology. It will be targeted towards students who have had little or no exposure to coursework on mental disorders. The course will have three core aims: 1) Explore the nature of mental disorde...
PSYCH113S Developmental Psychology This class will introduce students to the basic principles of developmental psychology. As well as providing a more classic general overview, we will also look towards current methods and findings. Students will gain an appreciation of how developme...
PSYCH115S Personality Psychology This course will focus on current empirical and theoretical approaches to personality. Lectures will be organized around the following questions central to personality research: How and why do people differ? How do we measure individual differences?...
PSYCH118F Literature and the Brain How does fiction make us better at reading minds? Why do some TV shows get us to believe two contradictory things at once? And can cognitive biases be a writer's best friend? We'll think about these and other questions in the light of contemporary ne...
PSYCH11N Belonging in a Diverse Society One of the most important questions people ask themselves when they enter a new setting, whether a school, a workplace, or a country, is "Do I belong here?". How do people make sense of their belonging in a new setting? How and why do group identitie...
PSYCH123F Navigating a Multicultural World: Practical recommendations for individuals, groups, & institutions The world is becoming increasing multicultural, as groups of different races, ethnicities, ages, genders, and socioeconomic classes are coming into closer and more frequent contact than ever before. With increased cultural contact comes the need to c...
PSYCH125S Language andThought How are we able to produce and comprehend language in all its complexity? How does language processing interact with other parts of cognition? In this course, we will focus on several main themes: language production and comprehension, discourse, lan...
PSYCH12N 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.
PSYCH131A How to Think Like a Shrink This course will teach you how to think (or experience) yourself and the communities around you as a therapist does. That means coming to understand why therapists focus on early life relationships and learning, why we privilege emotions, and why we...
PSYCH132 Language and Thought 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 hear...
PSYCH134 Brain and Decision Making This seminar explores how emerging findings at the interface of neuroscience, psychology, and economics combine to inform our understanding of how the brain makes decisions. Topics include neural processes related to reward, punishment, probability,...
PSYCH134S Psychology of Close Relationships The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of theory and research on the psychology of interpersonal relationships from a social psychological perspective, with a particular focus on friendships and romantic relationships. The goals for the...
PSYCH135 The Psychology of Diverse Community This course is an exploration. Its aim is to identify distinguishing features of good diverse communities and articulate them well enough to offer principles or guidelines for how to design and mange such communities e.g. schools, universities, acade...
PSYCH135S Sex and Sexual Assault on College Campuses Students on college campuses are disproportionately at risk of sexual assault. One in every five women and one in twenty men will be sexually assaulted during their time in college. In this course, we will use a cultural psychological lens to analyze...
PSYCH136 The Psychology of Scarcity: Its Implications for Psychological Functioning and Education This course brings together several literatures on the psychological, neurological, behavioral and learning impact of scarcities, especially those of money (poverty) time and food. It will identify the known psychological hallmarks of these scarcitie...
PSYCH138 Wise Interventions 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,...
PSYCH139A Psychology Beyond the Classroom By its very nature psychology is interdisciplinary. This course will consist of student-led workshops for those who are interested in the role of psychology in today¿s society. Each week a different student will talk about an interest of theirs -- an...
PSYCH139B Psychology Beyond Undergrad Ever wondered what graduate school in psychology could look like for you? In this workshop series, you'll get to hear from current graduate students and faculty about their experiences with graduate school. Come hear about what the pros and cons of g...
PSYCH13Q Bird Brains and Monkey Business Can a parrot learn in a social setting? Do apes have culture or moral agency? Although human cognitive processes are in many ways unique and remarkable, nonhuman animals are capable of complex mental behaviors. A fundamental question asked throughou...
PSYCH140 Introduction to Psycholinguistics How do people do things with language? How do we go from perceiving the acoustic waves that reach our ears to understanding that someone just announced the winner of the presidential election? How do we go from a thought to spelling that thought out...
PSYCH140S Do I Belong Here? How to Use Social Psychology to Build Belonging This course will provide students with a theoretical and applied understanding of the challenges, barriers, and solutions for how to cultivate belonging in educational and professional contexts from a social psychological perspective. The course will...
PSYCH141 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, reaso...
PSYCH141S The Psychology of Health: Culture, Self, and Society What is health? How does someone become healthy or maintain good health? In the US, mainstream narratives about health tend to focus on individual choices and behavior. In this course, we take a broader focus, examining how individual health is shape...
PSYCH142A Special Topics in Adolescent Mental Health Includes the study of aspects of common disorders seen in adolescent populations, such as prevalence, developmental course, gender differences, theoretical explanations, and therapeutic interventions. Topics will include mood/anxiety disorders, eati...
PSYCH144 The Sociocultural Shaping of Psychological Experience The focus of this course is on the mutual constitution of mind, culture, and society. Through classic and current readings, we will examine: 1) how psychological experience takes on structure and substance in a mutually constitutive relationship with...
PSYCH145 Seminar on Infant Development For students preparing honors research. Conceptual and methodological issues related to research on developmental psycholinguistics; training in experimental design; and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data.
PSYCH145A Monitoring the Crisis 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...
PSYCH146 Observation of Children Learning about children through guided discussions and video analyses from Bing Nursery School. Together we will looking into children's interactions with the world around them within the contexts of their physical, cognitive, social, and emotional d...
PSYCH147 Development in Early Childhood Supervised experience with young children at Bing Nursery School. 3 units require 4 hours per week in Bing classrooms throughout the quarter; 4 units require 7 hours per week; 5 units require 10.5 hours per week. Seminar on developmental issues in th...
PSYCH147S Introduction to the Psychology of Emotion What are emotions? What purpose do they serve? How do we measure them? Can we control them? In this course, we will explore some of the most interesting questions in psychology: questions about emotion. Emotions shape our perceptions of the world, in...
PSYCH148S The Psychology of Bias: Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination From Black Lives Matter to mansplaining, issues of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination grab our attention and draw our concern. This course brings together research from social, cognitive, affective, developmental, cultural, and neural perspe...
PSYCH149S Vertical Neuroscience: How the Brain Enables Climbing Explores the brain mechanisms of physical action, including how the brain learns to create complex movements, the neural circuitry of the motor system, and how pain, fear, and adrenaline are closely tied to these systems. An emphasis is placed on rea...
PSYCH150 Race and Crime 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...
PSYCH150B Race and Crime Practicum This practicum is designed to build on the lessons learned in PSYCH 150 Race & Crime. In this community service learning course, students participate in community partnerships relevant to race and crime, as well as reflection to connect these experie...
PSYCH154 Judgment and Decision-Making Survey of research on how we make assessments and decisions particularly in situations involving uncertainty. Emphasis will be on instances where behavior deviates from optimality. Overview of recent works examining the neural basis of judgment and...
PSYCH155 Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Race and ethnicity are often taken for granted as naturally occurring, self-evident phenomena that must be navigated or overcome to understand and eradicate the (re)production of societal hierarchies across historical, geopolitical, and institutional...
PSYCH15N Becoming Kinder Kindness - the ability to understand each other, the instinct to care for each other, and the desire to help each other - is among our most powerful natural resources. It supports cooperation, fosters relationships, improves health, and overwrites ha...
PSYCH160 Seminar on Emotion This undergraduate and graduate seminar will examine ancient Greek philosophical and contemporary psychological literatures relevant to emotion. Questions to be investigated include: What is the nature of emotions? What is the appropriate place in...
PSYCH161 Community Engaged Psychology and Education Field Experience The course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to learn about, build, and apply skills and relationships for equity centered community research partnerships, with a focus on historically marginalized and oppressed communities. Student...
PSYCH162 Brain Networks An essential aspect of the brain is its complex pattern of connectivity between neurons across different areas. This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the networks of the brain, analyzed from a range of standpoints from the microscopic...
PSYCH164 Brain decoding Can we know what someone is thinking by examining their brain activity? Using knowledge of the human visual system and techniques from machine learning, recent work has shown impressive ability to decode what people are looking at from their brain ac...
PSYCH165 Identity and Academic Achievement How do social identities affect how people experience academic interactions? How can learning environments be better structured to support the success of all students? In this class, we will explore how a variety of identities such as race, gender, s...
PSYCH168 Emotion Regulation (Graduate students register for 268.) The scientific study of emotion regulation. Topics: historical antecedents, conceptual foundations, autonomic and neural bases, individual differences, developmental and cultural aspects, implications for psychol...
PSYCH169 Advanced Seminar on Memory Memory and human cognition. Memory is not a unitary faculty but consists of multiple systems that support learning and remembering, each with its own processing characteristics and neurobiological substrates. This advanced undergraduate seminar will...
PSYCH170 The Psychology of Communication About Politics in America Focus is on how politicians and government learn what Americans want and how the public's preferences shape government action; how surveys measure beliefs, preferences, and experiences; how poll results are criticized and interpreted; how conflict be...
PSYCH171 Research Seminar on Aging Two quarter practicum exposes students to multiple phases of research by participating in a laboratory focusing on social behavior in adulthood and old age. Review of current research; participation in ongoing data collection, analysis, and interpret...
PSYCH175 Social Cognition and Learning in Early Childhood Social cognition¿the ability to infer and represent the unobservable contents of others' minds¿is a critical component of what makes us human. What are the basic elements of social cognition, and what do infants and young children understand about ot...
PSYCH176 Biology, Culture and Family in Early Development Early childhood is a time of both enormous promise and vulnerability. Parents differ widely in their practices and beliefs about their role in enabling children to avoid risk and to achieve their potential for a healthy and productive life in the par...
PSYCH180 Advanced Seminar on Racial Bias and Structural Inequality How do we address racial bias and inequities? What role do our institutions play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying those inequities? What role do we play? In this course, we will examine racial bias and inequality in our neighborhoods, schools...
PSYCH180A SPARQshop: Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions Undergraduate and graduate students will work in teams to design, build, test, and distribute online toolkits that help practitioners solve real-world problems by applying social science. Graduate students can build toolkits for their own research. S...
PSYCH180B Practicum on Racial Bias and Structural Inequality in the Law What role does race and bias play in creating, maintaining, and magnifying inequalities in how the law is made, applied, and enforced? In this course, we will examine how racialized perceptions, experiences, and affordances can become entrenched in o...
PSYCH182 Practicum in Teaching PSYCH 1 Pedagogical training focused on teaching introductory psychology: creating engaging and inclusive lesson plans and activities, providing helpful feedback to students, responding to student feedback, and supporting student learning in 1:1 and small gr...
PSYCH183 SPARQ Lab Join SPARQ (Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions) as a research assistant and help with projects addressing real-world issues.
PSYCH185 Racial Inequality across the Lifespan Imagine two children, one Black and one White, born on the same day and in the same country. By adulthood, these two will likely have had two remarkably different social experiences (e.g., the Black child will have received less education, income, he...
PSYCH186 The Psychology of Racial Inequality Our topic is the psychology of racial inequality - thinking, feeling, and behaving in ways that contribute to racial stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, and how these processes in turn maintain and perpetuate inequality between racial groups...
PSYCH187 Research Methods in Cognition & Development For centuries, scientists have studied the invisible aspects of the physical world---air, electrons, bosons---by conducting experiments and developing new methods to measure them. Psychological science is a field in which researchers use the scientif...
PSYCH189 Stanford Center on Longevity Practicum Student involvement in an interdisciplinary center aimed at changing the culture of human aging using science and technology. May be repeated for credit.
PSYCH194 Reading and Special Work Independent study. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
PSYCH195 Special Laboratory Projects Independent study. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: 1, 10, and consent of instructor.
PSYCH196A Neuroscience research This course is for undergraduate students who are part of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute's Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Opportunity (NeURO) fellowship program.
PSYCH196B Foundational Topics in Neuroscience This course is for undergraduate students who are part of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute's Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Opportunity (NeURO) fellowship program.
PSYCH197 Advanced Research Limited to students in senior honors program. Weekly research seminar, independent research project under the supervision of an appropriate faculty member. A detailed proposal is submitted at the end of Autumn Quarter. Research continues during Winte...
PSYCH198 Senior Honors Research Limited to students in the senior honors program. Finishing the research and data analysis, written thesis, and presentation at the Senior Honors Convention. May be repeated for credit.
PSYCH199 Individually Supervised Practicum Satisfies INS requirements for curricular practical training (CPT). May be repeated for credit. Prerequisites: consent of adviser.
PSYCH202 Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate core course. The anatomy and physiology of the brain. Methods: electrical stimulation of the brain, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, psychophysics, single-cell neurophysiology, theory and computation. Neuronal pathways and mechanisms of attent...
PSYCH203F Intergroup Communication Facilitation Are you interested in strengthening your skills as a facilitator or section leader? Interested in opening up dialogue around identity within your community or among friends? This course will provide you with facilitation tools and practice, but an eq...
PSYCH204A Human Neuroimaging Methods This course introduces the student to human neuroimaging using magnetic resonance scanners. The course is a mixture of lectures and hands-on software tutorials. The course begins by introducing basic MR principles. Then various MR measurement moda...
PSYCH204B Computational Neuroimaging This course provides an in-depth survey and understanding of modern computational approaches to design and analyses of neuroimaging data. The course is a mixture of lectures and projects geared to give the student an understanding of the possibilitie...
PSYCH205 Foundations of Cognition Topics: attention, memory, language, similarity and analogy, categories and concepts, learning, reasoning, and decision making. Emphasis is on processes that underlie the capacity to think and how these are implemented in the brain and modeled comput...
PSYCH206 Cortical Plasticity: Perception and Memory Seminar. Topics related to cortical plasticity in perceptual and memory systems including neural bases of implicity memory, recognition memory, visual priming, and perceptual learning. Emphasis is on recent research with an interdisciplinary scope, i...
PSYCH207 Professional Seminar for First-Year Ph.D. Graduate Students Required of and limited to first-year Ph.D. students in Psychology. Major issues in contemporary psychology with historical backgrounds.
PSYCH209 Neural Network Models of Cognition Neural Network models of cognitive and developmental processes and the neural basis of these processes, including contemporary deep learning models. Students learn about fundamental computational principles and classical as well as contemporary appli...
PSYCH20N How Beliefs Create Reality This seminar will take an interdisciplinary approach to exploring how subjective aspects of the mind (e.g., thoughts, beliefs, and expectations) can fundamentally change objective reality. Over the course of the semester, students will be challenged...
PSYCH211 Developmental Psychology Prerequisite: 207 or consent of instructor.
PSYCH213 Affective Science This seminar is the core graduate course on affective science. We consider definitional issues, such as differences between emotion and mood, as well as issues related to the function of affect, such as the role affect plays in daily life. We review...
PSYCH215 Mind, Culture, and Society Social psychology from the context of society and culture. The interdependence of psychological and sociocultural processes: how sociocultural factors shape psychological processes, and how psychological systems shape sociocultural systems. Theoretic...
PSYCH217 Topics and Methods Related to Culture and Emotion Preference to graduate students. How cultural factors shape emotion and other feeling states. Empirical and ethnographic literature, theories, and research on culture and emotion. Applications to clinical, educational, and occupational settings. Rese...
PSYCH21N How to Make a Racist How does a child, born without beliefs or expectations about race, grow up to be racist? To address this complicated question, this seminar will introduce you to some of the psychological theories on the development of racial stereotyping, prejudice,...
PSYCH220A Probabilistic models of cognition: Reasoning and Learning How can we understand intelligent behavior as computation? This course introduces probabilistic programming as a tool for cognitive modeling. We will use probabilistic generative models to explain aspects of human and artificial cognition. Topics wil...
PSYCH220B Probabilistic Models of Cognition: Language How can we understand natural language use in computational terms? This course surveys probabilistic models for natural language semantics and pragmatics. It begins with an introduction to the Rational Speech Acts framework for modeling pragmatics as...
PSYCH221 Image Systems Engineering This course is an introduction to digital imaging technologies. We focus on the principles of key elements of digital systems components; we show how to use simulation to predict how these components will work together in a complete image system simu...
PSYCH223 Social Norms This course covers research and theory on the origins and function of social norms. Topics include the estimation of public opinion, the function of norms as ideals and standards of judgment, and the impact of norms on collective and individual behav...
PSYCH224 Mapping the human visual system The human visual system has more than two dozen topographic maps of the visual field. This course will explain principles of topographic maps in the visual system, mapping of visual areas using retinotopy, as well as modeling spatial and temporal com...
PSYCH225 Triangulating Intelligence: Melding Neuroscience, Psychology, and AI This course will cover both classic findings and the latest research progress on the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence: How does the study of minds and machines inform and guide each other? What are the assu...
PSYCH226 Models and Mechanisms of Memory Current topics in memory as explored through computational models addressing experimental findings and physiological and behavioral investigations. Topics include: episodic and statistical learning; impact of prior knowledge on new learning; and the...
PSYCH227 Seminar in Psycholinguistics: Advanced Topics Adaptation to speaker variability in language use has receivedincreasing attention in recent years from linguists and psychologistsalike, who have recognized that, though long ignored, it poses a problemfor static theories of language. The course wil...
PSYCH231 Questionnaire Design for Surveys and Laboratory Experiments: Social and Cognitive Perspectives The social and psychological processes involved in asking and answering questions via questionnaires for the social sciences; optimizing questionnaire design; open versus closed questions; rating versus ranking; rating scale length and point labeling...
PSYCH232 Brain and Decision Making This seminar explores how emerging findings at the interface of neuroscience, psychology, and economics combine to inform our understanding of how the brain makes decisions. Topics include neural processes related to reward, punishment, probability,...
PSYCH233 Longevity Innovations Longer lives are generating new opportunities for products and services that support them. The Stanford Center on Longevity works closely with business leaders and entrepreneurs who are envisioning emerging longevity markets. The course overviews the...
PSYCH234 Understanding Depression In this course we will discuss current issues in the study of major depression, including the epidemiology and phenomenology of depression and other affective disorders, psychological and biological theories of depression, gender differences in depre...
PSYCH235 Human Motivation This graduate seminar will explore social-cognitive perspectives on motivation and emotion. Meetings will be discussion based. Prerequisites: Psychology 207 and consent of instructor.
PSYCH236A The Psychology of Scarcity: Its Implications for Psychological Functioning and Education This course brings together several literatures on the psychological, neurological, behavioral and learning impact of scarcities, especially those of money (poverty) time and food. It will identify the known psychological hallmarks of these scarcitie...
PSYCH238 Wise Interventions 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,...
PSYCH240A Curiosity in Artificial Intelligence How do we design artificial systems that learn as we do early in life -- as "scientists in the crib" who explore and experiment with our surroundings? How do we make AI "curious" so that it explores without explicit external feedback? Topics draw fro...
PSYCH241 Psychometrics and automated experiment design n this graduate seminar we will consider how modern computational techniques and old ideas in psychometrics combine to enable new approaches to experimentation. We will cover topics such as item response theory, optimal experiment design, adaptive ex...
PSYCH242 Theoretical Neuroscience Survey of advances in the theory of neural networks, mainly (but not solely) focused on results of relevance to theoretical neuroscience.Synthesizing a variety of recent advances that potentially constitute the outlines of a theory for understanding...
PSYCH243 General Development Seminar May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructors. Restricted to Developmental graduate students.
PSYCH245 New Map of Life This is an advanced graduate seminar focused on ways the ways that key life domains must change to accommodate century-long lives.
PSYCH245A Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity Development This seminar will explore the impact and relative salience of racial/ethnic identity on select issues including: discrimination, social justice, mental health and academic performance. Theoretical perspectives on identity development will be reviewed...
PSYCH246 Cognitive and Neuroscience Friday Seminar Participant presentations. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing in psychology or neuroscience program.
PSYCH247 Topics in Natural and Artificial Intelligence We will read a selection of recent papers from psychology, computer science, and other fields. We will aim to understand: How human-like are state of the art artificial intelligence systems? Where can AI be better informed by recent advances in cogni...
PSYCH248 Advanced fMRI modeling and analysis This seminar will discuss the state of the art in methods for the modeling and analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging data. Potential topics include connectivity modeling, causal modeling, multivariate pattern analysis, encoding models, a...
PSYCH249 Large-Scale Neural Network Modeling for Neuroscience Introduction to designing, building, and training large-scale neural networks for modeling brain and behavioral data, including: deep convolutional neural network models of sensory systems (vision, audition, somatosensation); variational and generati...
PSYCH249B Topics in Neurodiversity: Design Thinking Approaches The course provides essential background about neurodiversity, the design thinking process and the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to guide students in developing projects that maximize the potential of neurodiversity. Through case stud...
PSYCH249L Workshop on Incremental Language Processing Language is processed incrementally over time. This has consequences for language comprehension, production, acquisition, and change, all of which occur at different timescales. What is the role of time in language? The class will be based around vis...
PSYCH24N Neuroforecasting Preference to freshmen. This course explores whether brain activity can be used not only to predict the choices of individuals, but also of separate groups of individuals in the future (e.g., in markets). Questions include how neuroforecasting is pos...
PSYCH250 High-level Vision: From Neurons to Deep Neural Networks 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, and Computer Science. Emp...
PSYCH251 Experimental Methods Graduate laboratory class in experimental methods for psychology, with a focus on open science methods and best practices in behavioral research. Topics include experimental design, data collection, data management, data analysis, and the ethical con...
PSYCH252 Statistical Methods for Behavioral and Social Sciences This course offers an introduction to advanced topics in statistics with the focus of understanding data in the behavioral and social sciences. It is a practical course in which learning statistical concepts and building models in R go hand in hand....
PSYCH253 Measurement and the Study of Change in Social Science Research This course is a survey of methodological issues associated with the measurement of psychological constructs and processes of change. General areas to be covered include use of latent variable models (structural equation modeling), classical test the...
PSYCH254 Affective Neuroscience Theory and research. Comparative and human research approaches map affective function to neuroanatomical and neurochemical substrates. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
PSYCH255 Seminar on Motivation Selective overview of the scientific study of motivation. Our focus is on interesting, experimentally tractable ideas. Meetings will be discussion based.
PSYCH256 Race at Work In this practicum, students will examine how race works in a variety of institutional spaces by participating in community partnerships relevant to criminal justice, education, economic development, or health. Limited enrollment. Prerequisite for und...
PSYCH257A Race and Natural Language Processing The goal of this practicum is to integrate methods from natural language processing with social psychological perspectives on race to build practical systems that address significant societal issues. Readings will be drawn broadly from across the so...
PSYCH258 Graduate Seminar in Social Psychology Research For students who are already or are planning to become involved in research on social construal and the role that it plays in a variety of phenomena, notably the origin and escalation of conflict.
PSYCH259 Race and Crime 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...
PSYCH260 Seminar on Emotion This undergraduate and graduate seminar will examine ancient Greek philosophical and contemporary psychological literatures relevant to emotion. Questions to be investigated include: What is the nature of emotions? What is the appropriate place in...
PSYCH261 African American Child and Adolescent Mental Health: An Ecological Approach African American children and adolescents face a number of challenges (e.g., racism, discrimination, lack of access to resources, community violence) that can impact their mental health. Yet, they possess and utilize many strengths in the face of cha...
PSYCH263 Cognitive Neuroscience: Vision Decision, categorization. Bayesian inference, working memory, attention, cognitive control, conscious perception and awareness. The neural basis for all of these cognitive functions have been extensively studied in the domain of vision. Why vision? B...
PSYCH264 Unleashing Personal Potential: Behavioral Science and Design Thinking Applied to Self This course facilitates the application of the methods, theories, and findings of behavioral science to students own lives and improvement projects. It does so by combining behavioral science with a design thinking approach. You will learn to identif...
PSYCH265 Social Psychology and Social Change The course is intended as an exploration of the major ideas, theories, and findings of social psychology and their applied status. Special attention will be given to historical issues, classic experiments, and seminal theories, and their implications...
PSYCH266 Current Debates in Learning and Memory Memory is not a unitary faculty, but consists of multiple forms of learning and remembering. The cognitive and neural architectures of memory, focusing on the application of functional brain imaging (primarily fMRI and ERP). Psych 45 and Psych 169 re...
PSYCH267 Brain Networks An essential aspect of the brain is its complex pattern of connectivity between neurons across different areas. This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the networks of the brain, analyzed from a range of standpoints from the microscopic...
PSYCH268 Emotion Regulation (Graduate students register for 268.) The scientific study of emotion regulation. Topics: historical antecedents, conceptual foundations, autonomic and neural bases, individual differences, developmental and cultural aspects, implications for psychol...
PSYCH269 Graduate Seminar in Affective Science May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: graduate standing in Psychology.
PSYCH270 The Social Psychology of Contemporary American Politics Where do individuals' political attitudes and behaviors come from, and how can they be changed? In this class we will read and discuss cutting-edge research from social psychology, sociology, and political science on topics such as polarization, pers...
PSYCH271 Communicating Psychology A graduate seminar on writing and communication of psychological research, both for our colleagues and audiences outside the field.
PSYCH272 Psychology and American Indian/Alaska Native Mental Health Western medicine's definition of health as the absence of sickness, disease, or pathology; Native American cultures' definition of health as the beauty of physical, spiritual, emotional, and social things, and sickness as something out of balance. To...
PSYCH273 Changing Mindsets and Contexts: How to Create Authentic, Lasting Improvement Many wise interventions offer people new beliefs but have not addressed the contexts in which those beliefs will be situated and implemented. This can limit the interventions¿ effectiveness. In this course, we will explore how combining mindset chang...
PSYCH274 Graduate Research Workshop on Psychological Interventions 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, espec...
PSYCH275 Graduate Research Intermediate-level research undertaken with members of departmental faculty. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (Staff)
PSYCH276 Graduate Research Intermediate-level research undertaken with Prof. Wandell for EE students. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
PSYCH277 What Is a Mindset and How Does it Work? What is a mindset and how does it work? This seminar will explore existing and ongoing research, ranging from research on mindsets about talent and personality to mindsets about disease, stress and aging. We will focus on key questions related to the...
PSYCH278 Psychology of the Climate Crisis Climate scientists are largely in agreement that humanity faces a serious crisis, yet responses from the population at large and key decision makers have been mixed. How can we explain this disconnect and the diversity of reactions? In this discussio...
PSYCH279 Measuring Learning in the Brain Everything we learn - be it a historical fact, the meaning of a new word, or a skill like reading, math, programming or playing the piano - depends on brain plasticity. The human brain's incredible capacity for learning is served by a variety of lear...
PSYCH280 Foundations and Contemporary Topics in Social-Educational Psychology At its core, social psychology is concerned with educational problems because it addresses the problem of how to change hearts and minds in lasting ways. This course explores the major ideas, theories, and findings of social psychology, their educat...
PSYCH281 Practicum in Teaching Enrollment limited to teaching assistants in selected Psychology courses. May be repeated for credit.
PSYCH282 Practicum in Teaching PSYCH 1 Pedagogical training focused on teaching introductory psychology: creating engaging and inclusive lesson plans and activities, providing helpful feedback to students, responding to student feedback, and supporting student learning in 1:1 and small gr...
PSYCH283A SPARQshop: Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions Undergraduate and graduate students will work in teams to design, build, test, and distribute online toolkits that help practitioners solve real-world problems by applying social science. Graduate students can build toolkits for their own research. S...
PSYCH284 Graduate Seminar in Political Psychology For students interested in research in political science, psychology, or communication. Methodological techniques for studying political attitudes and behaviors. May be repeated for credit.
PSYCH285 The Anti-Racist Psychologist Psychological science has been, and continues to be, an active contributor to systemic racism. This includes, but is not limited to, creating and perpetuating ideas that directly harm communities of color, excluding communities of color from the rese...
PSYCH286 The Psychology of Racial Inequality Our topic is the psychology of racial inequality - thinking, feeling, and behaving in ways that contribute to racial stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, and how these processes in turn maintain and perpetuate inequality between racial groups...
PSYCH288 Perspectives on Belonging How do people make sense of their relationship with a community or society and how does this affect their behavior and outcomes? We will examine classic and contemporary research and theory on what belonging is; how people draw inferences about their...
PSYCH289 Longitudinal Data Analysis in Social Science Research This course offers a project-based orientation to methodological issues associated with the analysis of multivariate and/or longitudinal data in the social sciences. General areas to be covered include the manipulation/organization/description of the...
PSYCH28N The Cultural Shaping of Emotion This seminar examines how our cultural ideas and practices shape our conceptions, perceptions, and experiences of emotion. We will read and discuss empirical research and case studies from psychology, anthropology, sociology, and medicine. Course req...
PSYCH290 Natural Language Processing in the Social Sciences Digital communications (including social media) are the largest data sets of our time, and most of them are text. Social scientists need to be able to digest small and big data sets alike, process them and extract psychological insight. This applied...
PSYCH291 Causal Cognition Causality is central to our understanding of the world and of each other. We think causally when we predict what will happen in the future, infer what happened in the past, and interpret other people's actions and emotions. Causality is intimately li...
PSYCH292 Special Topics in Emotion Regulation This seminar will consider special topics in emotion regulation. Admission is by invitation only.
PSYCH293 What makes a good explanation? Psychological and philosophical perspectives Explanation is a topic of longstanding interest in philosophy and psychology, and has recently attracted renewed attention due to novel challenges in interpreting and interacting with relatively opaque AI systems. In this graduate seminar, we will st...
PSYCH294 Longitudinal Design and Data Analysis This course is a survey of growth modeling methods useful for study of developmental and change processes. General areas to be covered include conceptualization and organization of longitudinal panel data, linear growth modeling, inclusion of time-in...
PSYCH295 Seminar on the Science of Meditation What is meditation? What immediate and longer-term effects does this practice have on cognition? What are the mechanisms of these effects? In this small seminar we will try to gain insight into these questions by reading and discussing recent papers...
PSYCH296 Levels of Analysis in Cognitive Science Graduate seminar. A perennial theme in cognitive science is the idea that the mind/brain can be studied at different levels of abstraction, leading to influential frameworks positing levels of analysis and of explanation. The aim of this seminar is t...
PSYCH297 Research Methods in Social Psychology and Allied Fields This course will focus on the methodological foundations of research in social psychology and allied fields, and on the background scientific and career decision-making that fosters strong research in these fields. It will focus on such topics as: w...
PSYCH298 Advanced Studies in Health Psychology This course provides an overview of the major concepts and questions in the field of health psychology. Through reading, lecture and interactive discussion, students have the opportunity to explore and think critically about a number of psychologica...
PSYCH30 Introduction to Perception Behavioral and neural aspects of perception focusing on visual and auditory perception. Topics include: scientific methods for studying perception, anatomy and physiology of the visual and auditiory systems, color vision, depth perception, motion per...
PSYCH30N The Science of Diverse Communities This course is an exploration. Most generally, its aim is to identify distinguishing features of good diverse communities and articulate them well enough to offer principles or guidelines for how to design and manage such communities - all with a par...
PSYCH35 Minds and Machines (Formerly SYMSYS 100). An overview of the interdisciplinary study of cognition, information, communication, and language, with an emphasis on foundational issues: What are minds? What is computation? What are rationality and intelligence? Can we pred...
PSYCH383 International Conflict Resolution (Formerly IPS 250) (Same as LAW 5009; formerly Law 656) This seminar examines the challenges of managing and resolving intractable political and violent intergroup and international conflicts. Employing an interdisciplinary approach drawing on social...
PSYCH45 Introduction to Learning and Memory The literature on learning and memory including cognitive and neural organization of memory, mechanisms of remembering and forgetting, and why people sometimes falsely remember events that never happened. Cognitive theory and behavioral evidence inte...
PSYCH50 Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience How does our brain give rise to our abilities to perceive, act and think? Survey of the basic facts, empirical evidence, theories and methods of study in cognitive neuroscience exploring how cognition is instantiated in neural activity. Representativ...
PSYCH50A Practicum in Teaching: Intro to Cognitive Neuroscience TA training for Intro to Cognitive Neuroscience: preparing for sections, grading assignments, reviewing and answering questions in Canvas online forums and supporting office hours and review sections. Enrollment limited to teaching assistants for Psy...
PSYCH60 Introduction to Developmental Psychology Psychological development from birth to adulthood, emphasizing infancy and the early and middle childhood years. The nature of change during childhood and theories of development. Recommended: PSYCH 1.
PSYCH60A Introduction to Developmental Psychology Section Guided observation of children age 2-5 at Bing Nursery School. Corequisite: 60.
PSYCH70 Self and Society: Introduction to Social Psychology Why do people behave the way they do? This is the fundamental question that drives social psychology. Through reading, lecture, and interactive discussion, students have the opportunity to explore and think critically about a variety of exciting issu...
PSYCH75 Introduction to Cultural Psychology The cultural sources of diversity in thinking, emotion, motivation, self, personality, morality, development, and psychopathology.
PSYCH7N Learn to Intervene, Wisely One of the most exciting transformations in the social sciences in recent years is the finding that brief psychological exercises can improve important outcomes for months and years such as raising school achievement and reducing inequality, improvin...
PSYCH80 Introduction to Personality and Affective Science 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 ch...
PSYCH801 Master's TGR Project No Description Set
PSYCH802 PhD TGR Dissertation No Description Set
PSYCH8N The New Longevity Life expectancy nearly doubled in the 20th century. Along with a decrease in fertility societies are also aging. These changes have ramifications for all of the fundamental structures that guide people through life, including work, education, and the...
PSYCH90 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 discus...
PSYCH95 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.