PsychologyCourses for Spring 2022
| Title | Instructor | Location | Time | All taxonomy terms | Description | Section Description | Cross Listings | Fulfills | Registration Notes | Syllabus | Syllabus URL | Course Syllabus URL | ||
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| PSYC 001-001 | Intro To Exp Psych | Andrew H Ward | MW 03:30 PM-05:00 PM | This course provides an introduction to the basic topics of psychology including our three major areas of distribution: the biological basis of behavior, the cognitive basis of behavior, and individual and group bases of behavior. Topics include, but are not limited to, neuropsychology, learning, cognition, development, disorder, personality, and social psychology. | Living World Sector (all classes) | |||||||||
| PSYC 005-401 | Grit Lab (SNF Paideia Program Course) | Angela L Duckworth | T 03:30 PM-06:30 PM | The aims of Grit Lab are two-fold: (1) equip you with generalizable knowledge about the science of passion and perseverance (2) to help you apply these insights to your own life. At the heart of this course are cutting-edge scientific discoveries about how to foster passion and perseverance for long-term goals. As in any undergraduate course, you will have an opportunity to learn from current research. But unlike most courses, Grit Lab encourages you to apply these ideas to your own life and reflect on your experience. | OIDD005401 |
Designated SNF Paideia Program Course Registration also required for Recitation (see below) |
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| PSYC 109-401 | Intro To Brain & Behav | Michael Kane | TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM | Introduction to the structure and function of the vertebrate nervous system, including the physiological bases of sensory activity, perception, drive, motor control and higher mental processes. The course is intended for students interested in the neurobiology of behavior. Familiarity with elementary physics and chemistry will be helpful. | BIBB109401, BIOL109401 | Living World Sector (all classes) | Registration also required for Laboratory (see below) | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=PSYC109401 | ||||||
| PSYC 109-402 | Introduction To Brain and Behavior | Michael Kane | M 08:30 AM-10:00 AM | Introduction to the structure and function of the vertebrate nervous system, including the physiological bases of sensory activity, perception, drive, motor control and higher mental processes. The course is intended for students interested in the neurobiology of behavior. Familiarity with elementary physics and chemistry will be helpful. | BIBB109402, BIOL109402 | Living World Sector (all classes) | Registration also required for Lecture (see below) | |||||||
| PSYC 149-401 | Cognitive Neuroscience | Michael Arcaro | TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM | The study of the neural systems that underlie human perception, memory and language; and of the pathological syndromes that result from damage to these systems. | BIBB249401 | Nat Sci & Math Sector (new curriculum only) | Natural Science & Math Sector | |||||||
| PSYC 151-401 | Language and Thought | Delphine Dahan | MW 12:00 PM-01:30 PM | This course describes current theorizing on how the human mind achieves high-level cognitive processes such as using language, thinking, and reasoning. The course discusses issues such as whether the language ability is unique to humans, whether there is a critical period to the acquisition of a language, the nature of conceptual knowledge, how people perform deductive reasoning and induction, and how linguistic and conceptual knowledge interact. | LING151401 | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=PSYC151401 | ||||||||
| PSYC 162-001 | Abnormal Psychology | Ayelet M Ruscio | MW 01:45 PM-03:15 PM | The concepts of normality, abnormality, and psychopathology; symptom syndromes;theory and research in psychopathology and psychotherapy. | ||||||||||
| PSYC 170-001 | Social Psychology | Coren L Apicella | MW 10:15 AM-11:45 AM | 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. | Society sector (all classes) | |||||||||
| PSYC 253-001 | Judgment and Decisions | Edward Royzman | W 05:15 PM-08:15 PM | Thinking, judgment, and personal and societal decision making, with emphasis on fallacies and biases. Prerequisite: One semester of Statistics or Microeconomics. | ||||||||||
| PSYC 266-001 | Intro Positive Psyc (SNF Paideia Program Course) | Caroline Jane Connolly | TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM | An introduction to the study of positive emotions, positive character traits, and positive institutions. The positive emotions consist of emotions about the past (e.g., serenity, satisfaction, pride), about the future (e.g., hope, optimism, faith), and emotions about the present (pleasure and gratification). The distinction among the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life is drawn. The positive traits include wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and spirituality, and the classification of these virtues is explored. The positive institutions are exemplified by extended families, free press, humane leadership, and representative government. | Designated SNF Paideia Program Course | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=PSYC266001 | ||||||||
| PSYC 266-002 | Intro Positive Psych (SNF Paideia Program Course) | Caroline Jane Connolly | TR 03:30 PM-05:00 PM | An introduction to the study of positive emotions, positive character traits, and positive institutions. The positive emotions consist of emotions about the past (e.g., serenity, satisfaction, pride), about the future (e.g., hope, optimism, faith), and emotions about the present (pleasure and gratification). The distinction among the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life is drawn. The positive traits include wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and spirituality, and the classification of these virtues is explored. The positive institutions are exemplified by extended families, free press, humane leadership, and representative government. | Designated SNF Paideia Program Course | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=PSYC266002 | ||||||||
| PSYC 273-001 | Neuroeconomics | Joseph W Kable | TR 03:30 PM-05:00 PM | This course will introduce students to neuroeconomics, a field of research that combines economic, psychological, and neuroscientific approaches to study decision-making. The course will focus on our current understanding of how our brains give rise to decisions, and how this knowledge might be used to constrain or advance economic and psychological theories of decision-making. Topics covered will include how individuals make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, how groups of individuals decide to cooperate or compete, and how decisions are shaped by social context, memories, and past experience. | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=PSYC273001 | |||||||||
| PSYC 311-301 | Research Exp Perception | Johannes Burge | MW 01:45 PM-03:15 PM | In this research course, students will begin by first replicating earlier experiments to measure human visual memory capacity. After several class discussions to discuss ideas, each student will design and conduct their own experiment to further investigate visual and/or familiarity memory. Prerequisite: One semester of Statistics, and one of the following: PSYC 111 or 149 or 151 or 217, or permission of instructor. | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=PSYC311301 | |||||||||
| PSYC 362-301 | Research Exp Abnormal: Psychopathology | Melissa G. Hunt | R 01:45 PM-04:45 PM | Prerequite: PSYC 362, 301 is a two-semester course starting in the Fall. Class size limited to 8 students. |
Permission Needed From Instructor Permission Needed From Department |
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| PSYC 370-301 | Research Exp Social Psyc: Sexuality & Attraction | Edward Royzman | R 05:15 PM-08:15 PM | In this course students will work in small groups to develop, empirically test, and report on a research question within one of the domains of social psychology. Depending on the nature of the project, students will employ survey,experimental, or observational research methodology, and learn how to to conduct and report the appropriate statistical tests with Excel and/or SPSS (typically, correlations, t-tests, ANOVA and ANCOVA, multiple regression, , factor analysis, and measures of reliability). Class discussions will help students craft their projects, and in-class presentations will provide the opportunity to develop and refine presentation skills. Psychology majors only. Class size is limited to 12 students. Prerequisite: PSYC 170 and one semester of statistics is required. | Permission Needed From Department | |||||||||
| PSYC 400-301 | Senior Honors Sem Psych | Elizabeth M Brannon | M 01:45 PM-04:45 PM | Open to senior honors candidates in psychology. A two-semester sequence supporting the preparation of an honors thesis in psychology. Students will present their work in progress and develop skills in written and oral communication of scientific ideas. Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Honors Program in Psychology. |
Permission Needed From Department Communication Within the Curriculum |
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| PSYC 421-401 | Neurobiol Learn & Memory | Mary Ellen Kelly | W 01:45 PM-04:45 PM | This course focuses on the current state of our knowledge about the neurobiological basis of learning and memory. A combination of lectures and students seminars will explore th emolecular and cellular basis of learning invertebrates and vertebrates from a behavioral and neural perspective. | BIOL442401, BIBB442401, NGG575401 | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=PSYC421401 | ||||||||
| PSYC 429-401 | Sleep and Memory | Anna Schapiro | T 01:45 PM-04:45 PM | Why do we sleep? This question has puzzled scientists for centuries, but one reason emerging from research in the area is that sleep is critical for forming, retaining, and transforming our memories. This seminar explores human and animal research in psychology and neuroscience that has shed light on how sleep carries out these functions. Topics will include the different stages of sleep and their roles in memory consolidation, the neural systems involved in representing memory at different timescales, and the role of dreams in processing memories. | BIBB429401 | |||||||||
| PSYC 435-301 | Seminar in Psych Ling | Delphine Dahan | R 12:00 PM-03:00 PM | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=PSYC435301 | ||||||||||
| PSYC 447-301 | Seminar in Neuroscience: Neurological Insights Into Cognition and Behavior | Jay Gottfried | TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM | Our modern understanding of the brain began with very humble foundations. Long before transgenic mice, MRI scans, and neuronal recordings, most knowledge about brain function was based on clinical observations of human patients with neurological lesions. This advanced seminar will focus on the cognitive neuroscience of perception, emotion, language, and behavior -- through the unique perspective of real-life patients -- to illustrate fundamental concepts of brain function. Tuesday classes will explore different cognitive neuroscience topics through student presentations and discussion. Thursday classes will involve observing medical history taking and examination of a patient with cognitive deficits pertinent to the Tuesday topic, with opportunity for students to interact with the patient. Pre-requisites: Instructor permission required and PSYC 109 OR PSYC 149 OR PSYC 159 |
Permission Needed From Instructor Permission Needed From Department Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info |
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| PSYC 449-301 | Seminar in Cog Neurosci | Sharon L Thompson-Schill | R 12:00 PM-03:00 PM | Topics vary each semester. | ||||||||||
| PSYC 470-301 | Seminar in Social Psych: the Religious Mind: Embodied, Embedded, and Engaged | Gordon Bermant | TR 01:45 PM-03:15 PM | Topics vary each semester. | https://pennintouchdaemon.apps.upenn.edu/pennInTouchProdDaemon/jsp/fast.do?webService=syllabus&term=2022A&course=PSYC470301 | |||||||||
| PSYC 470-302 | Seminar in Social Psych: Moral Psychology | Geoffrey Goodwin | TR 10:15 AM-11:45 AM | Topics vary each semester. | ||||||||||
| PSYC 472-301 | Seminar Evolution Psych | Coren L Apicella | T 01:45 PM-04:45 PM | A course that explores female behavior focusing on evolutionary, physiological,and biosocial aspects of women's lives from puberty, through reproductive processes such as pregnancy, birth, lactation to menopause and old age. Examples are drawn from traditional and modern societies and data from nonhuman primates are also considered. | ||||||||||
| PSYC 474-301 | Seminar Cultural Psych: the Biology of Human Behavior, Cognition, and Culture | Michael Louis Platt | W 01:45 PM-04:45 PM | Prerequisite: Undergraduates only. PSYC 474 and 601 are LPS courses. | ||||||||||
| PSYC 539-401 | Theoretical Neuroscience | Vijay Balasubramanian | TR 08:30 AM-10:00 AM | This course will develop theoretical and computational approaches to structural and functional organization in the brain. The course will cover: (i) the basic biophysics of neural responses, (ii) neural coding and decoding with an emphasis on sensory systems, (iii) approaches to the study of networks of neurons, (iv) models of adaptation, learning and memory, (v) models of decision making, and (vi) ideas that address why the brain is organized the way that it is. The course will be appropriate for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. A knowledge of multi-variable calculus, linear algebra and differential equations is required (except by permission of the instructor). Prior exposure to neuroscience and/or Matlab programming will be helpful. | BE530401, BIBB585401, NGG594401, PHYS585401 | Nat Sci & Math Sector (new curriculum only) | Natural Science & Math Sector | |||||||
| PSYC 547-001 | Fndtions Soc Cog Neurosc | Martha J. Farah | MW 01:45 PM-03:15 PM | Permission Needed From Instructor | ||||||||||
| PSYC 600-301 | Proseminar in Psych: Language | John C. Trueswell | MW 12:00 PM-02:00 PM | Choice of half or full course units each sem. covering a range of subjects and approaches in academic psychology. | ||||||||||
| PSYC 600-302 | Proseminar in Psych: Neuroendocrinology | Loretta Flanagan-Cato | TR 01:45 PM-03:45 PM | Choice of half or full course units each sem. covering a range of subjects and approaches in academic psychology. | ||||||||||
| PSYC 609-401 | Neuroscience Core III |
Maria Geffen Franz Ludwig Weber Yale E. Cohen |
MWF 10:15 AM-12:15 PM | This course provides an introduction to what is known about how neuronal circuits solve problems for the organism and to current resarch approaches to this question. Topics include: vision, audition, olfaction, motor systems, plasticity, and oscillations. In addition, the course aims to provide an overview of the structure of the central nervous system. A number of fundamental concepts are also discussed across topics, such as: lateral inhibition, integration, filterting, frames of reference, error signals, adaptation. The course format consists of lectures, discussions, readings of primary literature, supplemented by textbook chapters and review articles. | NGG573401 | |||||||||
| PSYC 612-401 | Int To Nonp & Loglin Mod: Introduction To Non/Semi-Parametric Methods | Wei Wang | TR 12:00 PM-01:30 PM | An applied graduate level course for students who have completed an undergraduate course in basic statistical methods. Covers two unrelated topics: loglinear and logit models for discrete data and nonparametric methods for nonnormal data. Emphasis is on practical methods of data analysis and their interpretation. Primarily for doctoral students in the managerial, behavioral, social and health sciences. Permission of instructor required to enroll. | STAT501401 | http://syllabi.wharton.upenn.edu/?term=2009A&course=PSYC612401 | ||||||||
| PSYC 675-401 | Language and Cognition | Anna Papafragou | W 01:45 PM-04:45 PM | This is a seminar on how language relates to perception and cognition. The seminar pays particular attention to the question of whether and how language might affect (and be affected by) other mental processes, how different languages represent the mental and physical world, and how children acquire language-general and language-specific ways of encoding human experience. The course incorporates cross-linguistic, cognitive and developmental perspectives on a new and rapidly changing research area. | LING675401 | Contact Dept Or Instructor For Classrm Info | ||||||||
| PSYC 709-301 | Development & Psychopath | Sara R Jaffee | M 12:00 PM-03:00 PM | A developmental approach to the study of psychopathology focuses on how psychological processes from normal to abnormal developmental trajectories. In this seminar we will cover theory, methods, and key constructs in the study of developmental psychopathology. Readings will include seminal empirical papers and chapters. | ||||||||||
| PSYC 747-001 | Cont Res Iss in Scan | Martha J. Farah | W 05:15 PM-08:15 PM | Permission Needed From Instructor | ||||||||||
| PSYC 815-301 | Introductory Practicum | Melissa G. Hunt | ||||||||||||
| PSYC 820-301 | Advanced Practicum | Robert J Derubeis | Intensive studies of single individuals including interviews, tests, and experiments; also clinical experience at appropriate community agencies. | Permission Needed From Department | ||||||||||
| PSYC 820-302 | Advanced Practicum | Melissa G. Hunt | Intensive studies of single individuals including interviews, tests, and experiments; also clinical experience at appropriate community agencies. | Permission Needed From Department |