Graduate

Focuses on the process of quantitative research synthesis (meta-analysis). Topics include: literature search; coding; effect-size calculation; fixed- and mixed- and random-effects models for effecting size; special problems in meta-analysis.

Statistical methods for challenging problems in psychological research. Topic changes each time the course is offered. Topics include: item response theory, hierarchical modeling, longitudinal analysis, analysis of categorical data.

Investigates how people think about the social world. Topics include social categorization, person perception and memory, and social judgment. Offered in alternate academic years.

Goal is to understand how people interact with the natural world and how technology benefits this interaction.

An information-processing analysis of speech perception and reading. The stages of information processing in understanding language are studied, with particular emphasis on pattern recognition processes, memory processes, and utilization of context and knowledge in speech perception and reading.

Special topics in psychology and cognitive science are examined in a seminar format. Focus is on global issues of methodological and theoretical approaches.

Deals with second-language research; reviews the recent history of the field and discusses current literature. Focus is on research design and methodology, as well as on the theories that have evolved in this field.

A detailed consideration of selected topics on the visual system.

Integrative seminar on the relationship between individual psychological experience and its social, cultural, and institutional context. Explores various paradigms of culture in social science literature, including psychoanalytic theory, culture and personality, cultural psychology, Marxism, symbolic interactionism, poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, narrative, and Vygotsky's sociocultural theory. (Formerly Person, Culture, Society.)

The application of clinical and social psychological concepts and assessment techniques to the criminal justice system. Topics include insanity, competency, dangerousness, sentencing, incarceration, recidivism, and the role of psychologists in legal decision-making. Offered in alternate academic years.

Throughout the history of social psychology, attitude has been one of social psychology's major theoretical constructs, and persuasion has been one of it's perennial high-activity areas of empirical research. Discusses a range of contemporary issues in the study of attitudes and attitude change.

A survey of contemporary and historical developmental theories, with special attention to their assumptions, philosophical roots, empirical underpinnings, and positions on major developmental issues.

Looks at theories of distributive, procedural, and retributive justice; seeks universal justice norms (e.g., reciprocity); and critically examines the rules of evidence and inference guiding psychological findings. Emphasis on student participation and research.

An examination of enduring and contemporary issues in the study of personality development over the lifespan. Emphasis on issues involved in conceptualizing and measuring individual differences and in understanding their sources and significance.

Examines human creativity from a variety of perspectives, including those of developmental, social, cognitive, personality, organizational, and educational psychology. Explores multiple disciplinary perspectives and their possible integration.

An analysis of the development of the main approaches in contemporary psychology, with an emphasis on the history of ideas.

The psychological underpinnings of schooling. Applies fundamental psychological principles and findings to the educational process. Relevant topics include the psychology of learning, memory, attention, thinking, problem solving, computer-assisted instruction, and motivation, as well as specific domains of application of these areas.

Reviews the 20th-century history of social research on American black-white relations. Provides an overview of current theory and research. Focuses on social psychological contributions. Features extensive readings, seminar discussions and presentations, and a final substantive paper.

Explores the philosophy and pragmatics of teaching psychology at a college/university level. Students read various articles on contemporary teaching methods in psychology and engage in various exercises to develop their teaching skills.