PSYC 593

Spring 2014

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Credit: 2 OR 4 hours.

Discussion of current topics in their historical setting, with special emphasis on research problems.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
37657
Lecture-Discussion
AK
10:00AM -11:30AM
F
ARR Beckman Institute
Kramer, A
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
Human Cog & Brain Plasticity
Section Info:
Title: Human Cognitive and Brain Plasticity Across the Lifespan Requirements: Graduate student status in Neuroscience, Psychology or Kinesiology (or permission of instructor) Location: Director's conference room, 1st floor of the Beckman Institute Seminar Description: We will discuss research - both from the extant literature and on-going and planned research projects carried our by students and post-doc's - on the topic of human cognitive and brain plasticity across the lifespan. A number of lifestyle factors which engender plasticity (e.g. Physical activity, intellectual engagement, social interaction, nutrition) will be discussed and explored.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to students in the Psychology, Kinesiology & Community Health, or Neuroscience Program department.
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
43474
Lecture-Discussion
DB
10:00AM -11:50AM
W
815 Psychology Building
Beck, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
Consciousness
Section Info:
Examination of the scientific study of consciousness, with topics including (but not limited to): the role of attention in visual awareness, neural correlates of consciousness, and perception without awareness.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
37672
Lecture-Discussion
DN
12:00PM -3:00PM
R
708 Psychology Building
Newman, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
Section Title:
Multilevel & Networks in Orgs
Section Info:
Multilevel & Social Network Views of Organizations
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
39648
Lecture-Discussion
DS
9:00AM -10:50AM
M
815 Psychology Building
Simons, D
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
Professional Issues in Psyc
Section Info:
This course focuses on issues you will encounter as you move through graduate school and beyond. We will discuss things like job options (including both academic and non-academic jobs), interviewing, vitas, the publication process, tenure, networking, conference presentations, teaching/advising, balancing academics/family, etc. The class content is driven by student questions and input. Each week we have a guest faculty visitor who provides an additional perspective on these issues. Graduate students from all areas of the psychology department are welcome, and in the past, students from every division in the department have taken the course. The course is appropriate for graduate students at any stage of their career, including first year students and those completing their dissertations. The course has a light workload because its purpose is to discuss practical issues in academia rather than a formal content area.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to students in the Psychology department.
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
52894
Lecture-Discussion
EG
9:30AM -11:30AM
T
819 Psychology Building
Grijalva, E
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
The Dark Side of Org Psyc
Section Info:
Intensive examination of research and theory related to ?dark side? topics, such as aberrant personality traits (e.g., narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism) and deviant workplace criteria (e.g., abusive supervision, counterproductive work behavior, etc.); critical examination of recent research and theoretical literature; and development of research designs related to this topic.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to students in the Psychology department.
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
52683
Lecture-Discussion
FLD
2:30PM -4:50PM
R
608 Psychology Building
Dolcos, F
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Topics in Affective Neurosci
Section Info:
Description: Emotion is a double-edged sword - in some circumstances the enhanced significance of emotional stimuli can benefit cognitive processes (e.g. better memory for emotional events), while in others it can hinder them and cause detrimental effects on behavior (e.g., increased emotional distractibility). On the other hand, emotion processing is also susceptible to cognitive influences (e.g., cognitive control of emotion). Despite their relevance for understanding brain function in both healthy and clinical conditions, the neural mechanisms mediating the interactions between emotion and cognition are not well understood. This seminar will discuss current topics in the literature on emotion-cognition interactions, with a focus on the associated neural correlates.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
47523
Conference
HS
ARRANGED
n.a.
Location Pending
Allen, N
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Clin/Comm: History & Systems
Section Info:
One of a series of independent study courses to help Clinical/Community Psychology graduate students develop breadth of knowledge in the broader field of Psychology. Involves an overview of the history and systems of psychological thought and satisfies the breadth requirement in the area. Before enrolling in this course, students must develop and maintain a portfolio of engagement with the breadth area of History and Systems demonstrating 45 hours of effort. Students must first meet with the course instructor to present their portfolio. Instructor approval required.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
48190
Conference
MF
ARRANGED
n.a.
ARR Beckman Institute
Fabiani, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
IGERT Project Seminar
Section Info:
Neuroengineering Interdisciplinary Research Project. Prerequisites: ECE 401: Principles of Signal Analysis or Psych 508: Introduction to Systems Neuroscience or equivalents; at least one additional course offering graduate credit from both an engineering and a neuroscience discipline. Student teams consisting of at least one neuroscientist and one engineer will identify, formulate, plan, propose, conduct, evaluate, and document an interdisciplinary research project in the general area of neuroengineering related to audition, imaging, or brain-machine interfaces. (Other areas within neuroengineering may be allowed subject to prior approval by the instructors.)
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
46600
Lecture-Discussion
MK2
10:00AM -11:50AM
W
708 Psychology Building
Kral, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Section Title:
Culture&Mental Health/Illness
Section Info:
In this seminar we will explore research and ideas about the cultural contexts of both mental illness and health, at the interface of psychology, medical anthropology, and cultural psychiatry. The course will examine psychiatric approaches, anthropological studies of psychopathology, epidemiology, clinical work, and recent theorizing, and then how all this may contribute to our understanding of the categories and idioms of mental illness. We will look more closely at depression, PTSD, and suicide. We will also review current work on culture and well-being in order to better understand meanings of mental health.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
61186
Lecture-Discussion
MK3
ARRANGED
n.a.
ARR Psychology Building
Kral, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
Credit:
2 hours
Section Title:
ClinComm: History and Systems
37746
Lecture-Discussion
MR
12:00PM -2:30PM
W
ARR Psychology Building
Regenwetter, M
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/21/14-05/07/14
Credit:
4 hours
Section Title:
Behavioral Social Choice
Section Info:
How should groups, organizations, and society as a whole make collective decisions? Methods of preference aggregation (aka social choice, consensus methods) have a long history in Political Science, Economics and Mathematics, but have also been studied sporadically in Psychology and the Management Sciences. The vast majority of existing work on social choice has focused on Economics-based Rational Choice Theory. This literature is plagued with troubling results, most notably Kenneth Arrow?s Nobel Prize winning ?Impossibility Theorem,? which appears to suggest that democratic or rational collective decision making is a pipe dream. Behavioral social choice is grounded in Psychology and considers empirical and behavioral aspects of preference aggregation. In this course, we will review the nascent literature in this young field. The seminar will highlight quantitative methods and empirical findings. Much of the existing empirical evidence suggests that the literature?s pessimism about preference aggregation is based on inaccurate assumptions about real decision making situations, and that many policy recommendations are misleading. The ideal outcome of the seminar is that each participant will sharpen her critical thinking and carry out a small project on behavioral social choice motivated by his own research interests.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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