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Please Note: The information given in the Course Atlas is subject to change. For final schedule information, please refer to OPUS or the professor of the course. Courses Spring 2009CoursesGraduate Fall 2009PSYCHOLOGY 506: Core Course in Memory Maximum Enrollment: 15 Content: This course will cover a variety of topics on current research in memory including the following areas: Memory systems vs. memory processes, Role of the frontal lobes in memory, Explicit and implicit memory, Episodic and semantic memory: dissociable substrates, False memory, memory illusions, Autobiographical memory, infantile/childhood amnesia Stress, emotion and memory, Working memory, Interference in memory, Forgetting. A developmental and cognitive neuroscience approach to each of these topics will also be addressed. Tutorials on functional neuroimaging, ERP's, etc. will be given just before the first readings that use those techniques. The format of the seminar will center around discussion of the readings for each day with some guest lectures. PSYCHOLOGY 530: Primate Social Behavior Maximum Enrollment: 20. Permission of the Instructor is required. Particulars: This course examines the historical context for understanding the study of primate social organization and behavior and will introduce students to current research. Evolutionary, ecological and cognitive aspects of primate behavior are emphasized. PSYCHOLOGY 532: Interactionist Approach to Social Relations (Same as SOC 551) Maximum Enrollment: 3. Permission of the Instructor is required. Content: There are two sections to this course. In the first section we will examine and critically assess the theoretical statements of selected theorists who have contributed to the foundations of the symbolic interaction perspective. Major theorists covered will include Mead, Cooley, Blumer, Goffman, Couch, Kuhn, and Stryker. The second section will cover recent theoretical developments in the symbolic interaction tradition on the following topics: the looking-glass self, reflected appraisals, identity processes, identity and stress, emotions, social identity theory, and identity negotiation. Recent major theorists include Gecas, Burke, Stets, Thoits, Heise, Smith-Lovin, Snow, Anderson, Cahill and others. Particulars: 5 page critique, short responses and 1 major research paper. PSYCHOLOGY 541: Personality and Psychopathology II Maximum Enrollment: 15. Permission of the Instructor (Dr. Elaine Walker) is required. Content: The focus is on the nature and classification of psychopathology, with a focus on the relation between personality and psychopathology. The course begins with a discussion of theoretical perspectives on psychopathology, followed by a review of the latest research on the major forms of psychiatric disturbance described in the DSM-IV. Texts: Reading materials will be original sources, consisting of classic and recent articles from the psychopathology literature. Particulars: One exam paper. Permission of Dr. Elaine Walker is required prior to enrollment. PSYCHOLOGY 542: Research Methods in Psychology Maximum Enrollment: 8. Permission is required prior to enrollment Content: This graduate course introduces a variety of research methods and designs used in the field of psychology. Students will interact with faculty from the clinical psychology program and have an opportunity to hear about their current research projects. Critical thinking, conceptualization, and writing skills will be emphasized. Particulars:This course is open to first year clinical graduate students and others by permission of the instructor only. All students must register s/u only. PSYCHOLOGY 547: Intervention II Maximum Enrollment: 15 (Clinical Students Only) Content: The goals of the course are to develop critical thinking, knowledge, and skills in the following areas of study: PSYCHOLOGY 548 : Assessment I Maximum Enrollment: 7. Permission of the Instructor is required prior to enrollment. Content: The goal of this course, along with its associated practicum, is to provide a foundation in psychometric theory, a foundation in theories and research relating to intelligence and its measurement, an understanding of the legitimate and ethical purposes of assessment, training and supervision in key assessment instruments, and training in assessment as an integrative process. Assessment of learning problems, from preschool to adult, will be covered. PSYCHOLOGY 560: ANOVA – Advanced Statistics Maximum Enrollment: 16 Content: Provides students with appropriate statistical tools to analyze the data obtained in traditional psychological research involving the manipulations of one or more independent variables. The emphasis is on the Analysis of Variance, which forms the backbone of much of psychological research. Topics include when and how to perform the analysis of variance for one-way designs, for factorial design, and for a variety of repeated measure designs. A second major objective of the course is to learn how to analyze data using SPSS, one of the frequently used computer-based data analysis packages. PSYCHOLOGY 597R: Directed Study PSYCHOLOGY 599R: Master Thesis Research PSYCHOLOGY 730R: Narratives and Identity Research Group Maximum Enrollment: 15 (By permission of the Instructor only). Content:In this course, we will read and discuss articles related to narratives and identity, and present and discuss research in progress. Particulars: By permission of the Instructor. Pass/fail only. PSYCHOLOGY 730R: Language and Space Maximum Enrollment: 15 (By permission of the Instructor only). Content: TBA PSYCHOLOGY 730R: The Language Group Maximum Enrollment: 15 (By permission of the Instructor only). Content: This is a research seminar in which students, faculty, and post-docs discuss their work and recent papers on topics related to language including speech processing, symbolic representation, word learning, non-verbal communication, and categorization from behavioral and neuroscientific, adult and developmental perspectives. PSYCHOLOGY 730R: Topical Seminar: fMRI Research Group Maximum Enrollment: 30 (Permission of the Instructors required) Content: Discussion of research projects being performed by graduate students, post docs, and faculty in participating laboratories. Discussion topics include experimental design, data analysis, and theoretical issues. Participants will present regularly. Occasional readings on methodological issues will be assigned. Particulars: By permission of instructors. Pass/fail only. PSYCHOLOGY 730R: Meditation Research Group Content: Weekly discussion of meditation-related research projects being planned and performed by graduate students, post docs, and faculty in the Emory community. Discussion topics include basic science and clinical investigations of contemplative strategies in Western society. Experimental design and theoretical issues will also be covered. Participants will present regularly, and occasional readings of relevant literature will be assigned. Particulars: Pass/fail only. PSYCHOLOGY 730R: Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Group Maximum Enrollment: 15 Content: This seminar will focus on discussion of primary literature and student presentations in the field of behavioral neuroendocrinology. Texts: Selected readings from scientific journals may be assigned for individual sessions. Particulars: NAB graduate students interested in behavioral endocrinology and neuroendocrinology are especially encouraged to enroll. Graduate students from other programs are welcome as well. Content will vary from semester to semester and the course can be repeated for credit. Specifics: Open to all Psychology graduate students. Undergraduate and other students require permission from the Instructor prior to enrollment. PSYCHOLOGY 730R: Culture and Cognition Maximum Enrollment: 15 (By permission of the Instructor only). Content: Research, reading, and discussion group on cognition and social cognition from a cross-cultural and comparative perspective. PSYCHOLOGY 750: Clinical Supervision Particulars: Must be a graduate student in clinical psychology. PSYCHOLOGY 750: Community Practicum Particulars: Must be a graduate student in clinical psychology. PSYCHOLOGY 770: Mind and Brain from the Perspectives of Buddhism and Western Science (Same as RLAR 737) Maximum Enrollment: 30 (Psyc 770=20; RLAR 737=10) Content:Buddhism, like Western science, has the goad of understanding how the mind and brain work. Because Buddhism aims to change cognition and behavior for the general good, accurate understandings of mind and brain are essential. Over millennia, Buddhist have developed extensive accounts of mind that appear to overlap with what Western science now studies intensely in psychology and neuroscience...read more PSYCHOLOGY 770: Philosophical Psychology (Same as PHIL 789) Maximum Enrollment: 16 (Pysc=8, Phil=8) Content: This interdisciplinary seminar will explore a variety of recent accounts about how the mind works. It will include readings from the works of both contemporary philosophers and psychologists. The seminar will repeatedly address two issues that remain intertwined throughout all of these accounts. Those issues are: (1) what is the architecture, i.e., the structure and organization, of the human mind? and (2) what are the principle(s) by means of which human minds obtain knowledge? Particulars: All graduate students registered for teh seminar will be expected to take responsibility for facilitating discussion of some reading at least once during the semester. Graduate students taking the seminar for a grade will also write a final paper. PSYCHOLOGY 770: Latent Vairable Modeling using MPlus (Same as EDS 774) Maximum Enrollment: 16. Permission of the Instructor is required prior to enrollment. Content: Latent variable models are commonly used in the social, behavioral, and biological sciences and refer to models containing latent constructs, or unobservable variables. Some different names that latent variables assume in different research literatures are random effects, common factors, and latent classes. Some phenomena they represent are 'true' variables measured with error, hypothetical constructs, and unobserved heterogeneity. In this seminar, we will study models that use continuous and categorical latent variables. Methods and modelling techniques to be covered include confirmatory factor analysis, varieties of structural equation modeling, random effects growth modeling, and cross-sectional and longitudinal mixture modeling. We also will examine issues of missing data, hierarchically nested designs, and non-normally distributed variables. Time (and interest) permitting, we also may cover latent class analysis, item response theory, and behavior genetic analyses. We will primarily rely on the MPlus program and the analytic framework developed by Bengt Muthen and his colleagues at UCLA. Particulars: The pre-requisite is a course on multiple regression. Training in structural equation and multilevel modeling will be useful but not essential. PSYCHOLOGY 770: Personality, Emotion, and Cognition Maximum Enrollment: 15. Permission is required prior to enrollment. Content:This course on theories of personality will include basis research on cognitive and emotional processes from the standpoints of different theoretical and empirical approaches to personality including psychodynamic, cognitive-social/cognitive-behavioral, trait, evolutionary, and humanistic theories. It will also include discussion of the application of these findings within clinical practice (case formulation from multiple standpoints, and cognition-emotion interactions.) PSYCHOLOGY 774R: Clinical Research & Teaching Seminar Content: This is the ongoing research and training seminar of the clinical psychology graduate program. Topics vary from year to year, but include research presentations by students and faculty and theoretical and research-based discussions of clinical issues. Special topics such as ethics, legal questions, social issues, and problems of special populations are also addressed. Texts: There are no texts, but reading may be assigned in preparation for individual presentations. Particulars: This course is required for all clinical psychology graduate students during each of their first four years in residence. The course is not open to students outside of the department of psychology. PSYCHOLOGY 775R: Neuroscience & Animal Behavior Research Seminar Content: This seminar covers basic issues of neuroscience and animal behavior research. Content varies from semester to semester. This course includes presentations by NAB students and faculty, and visitors from other departments and universities. Particulars: All graduate students registered for the seminar will be expected to take responsibility for facilitating discussion of some reading at least once during the semester. Graduate students taking the seminar for a grade will also write a final paper. PSYCHOLOGY 776R: Cognition and Developmental Issues Seminar Content: This course focuses on current findings and theoretical issues in the study of cognition and development. PSYCHOLOGY 797R: Directed Study PSYCHOLOGY 799R:Doctoral Dissertation Research
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