Social Cognition

PSYCHOLOGICAL & BRAIN SCIENCES 5991

This seminar will focus on current theory and methods in social cognition, broadly defined. The goal of this course, much like the goal of research in social cognition is twofold: 1) to explore the cognitive underpinnings of social psychological phenomena, including person perception, stereotyping, attribution, emotion, automaticity, and self-construction, assessment, and regulation; and 2) to explore the social and contextualized nature of cognitive processes and content, including memory, judgment, and perception. Although the course draws primarily on readings from the social psychological literature, topics discussed are relevant to a variety of domains, including cognitive and clinical psychology. PREREQ, GRADUATE STANDING.
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SEMINAR IN HEARING

PSYCHOLOGICAL & BRAIN SCIENCES 555

This course will cover topics related to hearing conservation, including effects of noise on hearing, environmental noise, classroom acoustics, federal regulations, interactions of noise and other agents, and ototoxicity. Additional topics may vary year-to-year. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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Neural Systems of Behavior and Psychopathology

PSYCHOLOGICAL & BRAIN SCIENCES 5373

This course provides students with a working knowledge of our rapidly evolving understanding of the brain circuits that create order in our social, emotional and cognitive worlds and how disorder within these circuits is associated with a broad range of psychopathology, including depression, anxiety, phobias, PTSD, OCD, addiction, autism, schizophrenia, psychopathy and violence. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Psychological & Brain Sciences. This course is the graduate level equivalent of 4765: Inside the Disordered Brain.
Course Attributes: FA NSM; AR NSM; AS NSM

Advanced Psychopathology

PSYCHOLOGICAL & BRAIN SCIENCES 537

This is an advanced course in psychopathology, or the scientific study of mental disorders. It will focus on conceptual foundations for the study and treatment of major mental disorders as well as the methodological and clinical issues that follow from their consideration. The overall goal of the course is to promote critical thinking and to foster the development of clinical scientists who will discover new knowledge regarding psychopathology. The course is composed of five sections that are concerned with: (1) the history or psychopathology and training in psychological clinical science, (2) causal models regarding the development of mental disorders, (3) the definition and classification of mental disorders, (4) epidemiology (including considerations regarding culture and gender), (5) descriptive psychopathology (i.e., the phenomenology of perception and cognition, emotion, volition, and personality). Prerequisite: Open only to doctoral students in clinical psychology or by permission of instructor.
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Applied Bayesian Statistics for Psychologists

PSYCHOLOGICAL & BRAIN SCIENCES 5167

Bayesian parameter estimation and hypothesis testing offer a useful alternative to the classic frequentist paradigm within psychological science. This class will cover the foundations of Bayesian inference and hypothesis testing with the primary emphasis on fitting multiple regression and multi-level models common within psychology. A variety of response distributions will be discussed: Gaussian, binary and count, ordinal, survival, probability, and zero-inflated models, among others. Topics include: model calibration, regularization, prior and posterior predictions, Bayes factors, missing data, Bayesian power, cross-validation, Bayesian meta-analysis, distributional models, and multivariate response models. Models will be fit using the R package brms, which relies on the more general Stan language. PREREQ: PSYCH 5068 or a proficiency in multilevel modeling
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Psychological Assessment II

PSYCHOLOGICAL & BRAIN SCIENCES 5113

This course is an introduction to the theory, development, and evaluation of personality and diagnostic assessment techniques and tests. Topics will include psychometric issues (e.g., reliability, validity) as well as appropriate usage and interpretation of instruments commonly used to assess personality, mood, and psychopathology. The course involves the practical application and interpretation of psychological assessments. Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Psychological & Brain Sciences.
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Advanced Cognitive Psychology

PSYCHOLOGICAL & BRAIN SCIENCES 5087

An advanced introduction to core topics in cognitive psychology. Topics may include perception, attention, memory, categorization, metacognition, and decision modeling. PREREQ: Graduate standing.
Course Attributes: EN S

Hierarchical Linear Models

PSYCHOLOGICAL & BRAIN SCIENCES 5068

Data in the social sciences are frequently organized hierarchically---students are enrolled in classes, which exist within separate schools, which are parts of different school systems; employees work within teams within different divisions of a company; the outcomes for participants or patients in different treatment groups are measured different numbers of times and include covariates that vary over time; partners, parents, and children are parts of family units that are parts of different communities. Hierarchical data contain dependencies that preclude traditional analyses (e.g., simple ANOVA or multiple regression), requiring instead an approach that correctly estimates error sources and identifies systematic effects at their appropriate level of influence. This course provides an introduction to the analysis of hierarchical data with an emphasis on the correct identification of models, analysis of hierarchical data with current software, proper interpretation of results, and use of appropriate diagnostic tests for model adequacy. PREREQ: Psych 5066 and 5067
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Quantitative Methods II

PSYCHOLOGICAL & BRAIN SCIENCES 5067

Continuation of Psych 5066. Introduction to multiple regression/correlation analysis. Topics include bivariate and multiple correlation and regression, regression diagnostics, representation of nominal or qualitative variables, polynomials, logistic regression, interactions, ANOVA, analysis of covariance, repeated measures, power calculations, and Bayesian approches to the general linear model . PREREQ: Psych 5066.
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Behavioral Psychology Readings Group

PSYCHOLOGICAL & BRAIN SCIENCES 494

This weekly journal-style readings class provides the opportunity to read and discuss seminal as well as current writings on the conceptual aspects of behavioral psychology and relevant research. Points of contact among behaviorism, cognitivism, and neuroscience, and the natural lines of fracture, will be examined. PREREQ: Psych 361, OR Psych 360, OR one of the following: Phil 315, Phil 321G, Phil 358, PNP 200, PNP 201, or permission of Instructor.
Course Attributes: EN S; AS SSC; FA SSC; AR SSC