COURSE	TITLE	INSTRUCTOR	TIME	ROOM
Psyc 001-601	Intro. Exp. Psyc.	Grant	TR 5-6:30	**
Psyc 111-601	Perception	Snyder	T 6-8:40	PsyL A29
Psyc 151-601	Cognitive	Lutz	TR 5-6:30	Will 421
Psyc 170-601	Social	Mason	TR 5-6:30	PsyL A30

**Room 116, 3909 Spruce St.

Psyc 001-601

Introduction to Experimental 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 111-601

Perception

Janice Snyder

We open our eyes and immediately see a rich and detailed world. It appears so naturally and effortlessly that we tend to take perception for granted. However many perceptual illusions provide compelling evidence that perception is anything but simple! This course is an introduction to the theoretical and experimental issues associated with the senses and our perceptual experience of the world. This emphasis in this course is on understanding the basic perceptual phenomena of vision, audition, smell and taste, as well as touch and pain. Many explanations will be in terms of the underlying brain mechanisms that allow us to transform the physical stimulus into subjective and cognitive percepts.
 

Psyc 151-601

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 170-601

Social

Kathryn Mason

Social psychology attempts to be a systematic study of human interaction. We will use examples of interaction in American subcultures, an African culture, and mainstream American culture when investigating: (1) the major theoretical paradigms used in social psychology, (2) social psychological research methodology and (3) the range of human social behavior from intra-individual to the group level of interaction.