COURSE	TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME	ROOM
Psyc 001-920	Intro. Exp. Psyc.	Grant	TR 4:30-7:40	**
Psyc 001-921	Intro. Exp. Psyc.	Ostovich/Williams	TR 4:30-7:40	Negb 116
Psyc 135-920	Language	Mims	TR 4:30-7:40	IRCS 413
Psyc 151-920	Cognitive	Lutz	TR 4:30-7:40	Chem 109
Psyc 162-920	Abnormal	Strunk	TR 6-9:10	Moor 224
Psyc 170-920	Social	Moskalenko	MTWR 12:30-2	Will 218

**Harrison Seminar Room, which is located in Harrison College House -- http://harrison.house.upenn.edu
 
 

Psyc 001-910

Introduction to Experimental Psychology

Jennifer Alvarez-Conrad

Introduction to the basic topics of psychology, including learning, motivation, cognition, development, abnormal, physiological, social, and personality.

Psyc 111-910

Perception

Christel Lutz

It seems so natural and effortless to sense and perceive objects and events in our environment that we tend to take sensation and perception for granted. Many perceptual illusions provide compelling evidence for the complexity of perceptual organization. But what are the underlying brain mechanisms that allow us to transform the physical stimulus into subjective and cognitive percepts? And what is the interaction of perception with actions we carry out in our environment?  This course will cover vision, audition, smell and taste, as well as touch and pain and even the perception of time. By looking at specific phenomena in all of those modalities we will be able to describe many general mechanisms and phenomena that are common to all senses. Students will be introduced to methods used in psychology, neuroscience, biology and artificial intelligence.
 

Psyc 151-910

Cognitive

Rebecca Nappa/Jared Novick

Analysis of mental processes in adult humans:  Attention,  Pattern recognition, Imagery, Memory, Action, Mental architecture.
 

Psyc 153-910

Thinking and Decision

Andrea Gurmankin

This course addresses the ideal standards of thinking, judgment, and decision making, and the ways in which people fall short according to these standards. We will discuss rules of thumb that people use in every day decision making, and biases and errors that result from these rules. We will apply these shortcomings in human judgment to understanding problems in medicine, law and public policy.  Understanding our limitations can help improve judgmentsand decisions in our own lives and in these important fields.
 
 
 
 
 

Psyc160-935

Personality

David Williams

This is a distance learning (or Penn Advance) course.  (Internet fee is $60.)  Personality psychology is about human beings as individuals-their private thoughts, their public behavior, and the relationships they form with other individuals.  This part of psychology not only looks at our profoundly important biological heritage, but also takes account of our self-awareness, our experience of will, and our apparent ability to choose.  We'll start from relatively objective aspects of human nature, examining what personality psychologists have learned about human "traits."  Then we'll move to the more subjective side.  Starting with biological ideas about evolutionary influences on our experience of living, we'll move to concepts derived from the clinical work of psychodynamic theorists and existential psychologists.  Finally, we'll integrate all these approaches to subjectivity by bringing them into the cognitive framework developed by personality theorist George Kelly.
 

Psyc 162-910

Abnormal

Dean Cruess

The concepts of normality, abnormality, and psychopathology; symptom syndromes; theory and research in psychopathology and psychotherapy.
 

Psyc 170-910

Social

Jennifer M. Ostovich

***CANCELED***
An overview of theories and research across the range of social behavior from intra-individual to the group level.  Topics include social influence, aggression, prosocial behavior, prejudice, and interpersonal attraction.
 

Psyc 180-910

Developmental

Katherine Dahlsgaard

A developmental perspective on the general empirical and theoretical psychology of perception, cognition, language, learning, comparative ethology, and socialization.

Psyc 001-920

Introduction to Experiemental Psychology

Paul Grant

Dave Barry has stereotyped the psychologist as a person interested in just two things -- rats and dreams. In this course, you will discover why psychologists have interest in rats, dreams, and, to wit, stereotypes! For, imagine, psychologists have the audacity (and the patience!) to apply the experimental methods of modern science to questions of behavior and mind. Hence, we will consider questions from each of the following topic areas: clinical (what is manic-depression?), personality (why is uncle Abner so strange?), social (how do other people affect what I do and think?), cognition (what do I think?), sensation/perception (why does the world look and sound the way it does), learning/motivation (rats & dreams!).
 

Psyc 001-921

Introduction to Experiemental Psychology

Jennifer Ostovich/Diana Williams

Introduction to the basic topics of psychology, including learning, motivation, cognition, physiological psychology, development, abnormal psychology, social psychology, and personality.

Psyc 135-920

Language

Karen Mims

This course describes the nature of human language, how it is used to speak and comprehend, and how it is learned.  The approach taken to linguistic and  psycholinguistic issues (including grammar and semantics) is quite technical.  Subtopics include second language acquisition, animal communication, and language in special populations (such as Down Syndrome and children born deaf or blind).
 

Psyc 151-920

Cognitive

Christel Lutz

This course is about mental proceses in adult humans.  Among the topics will be: attention, pattern recognition, imagery, memory, perception and action, decision making and language.  Computer demos of classic experiments will be used.  Among the methods covered will be reaction-time and accuracy data, as well as brain imaging techniques such as ERP's or fMRI's.
 

Psyc 162-920

Abnormal

Daniel Strunk

The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of abnormal psychology:  the scientific study of abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. We will begin this course by considering ways of defining, conceptualizing, and assessing abnormality.  Then, we will study the phenomenology, causes, and treatment options for a variety of mental disorders.  Special attention will be given to research methods throughout the course.
 

Psyc 170-920

Social

Sophia Moskalenko

An overview of theories and research across the range of social behavior from intra-individual to the group level including the effects of culture, social environment, and groups on social interaction.