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Undergraduate Studies: Special Topics for Psychology 160-163

Winter 2010

Psy 160JB

Human behavior in virtual worlds

This course examines the history of human behavior in virtual worlds with an emphasis on digital virtual worlds including three- dimensional digital virtual environments, internet and web based environments, social networking sites etc. It describes the ways in which human behavior is impacted by virtual reality technology and considers its positive and negative impact on society.

Mondays 3pm-530pm in Psy-E 3843

 

Psy 160DH

Issues in Social Cognition

Social cognition is the study of how people process and use the information they encounter in the social world. These processes are important both because the manner in which we process information determines our interpretations and reactions to events we experience and because these interpretations and reactions serve as the foundation of subsequent judgments and behavior. This seminar will focus on current knowledge about social cognition with a special focus on identifying processes that are involved in diverse aspects of social thought and behavior. We will see how a set of core cognitive processes underlie and affect social thinking and action across a broad set of situations and contexts that previously have tended to be studied in isolation from each other. This approach will allow easier comparison of findings from literatures that have traditionally utilized distinct methods and different levels of analysis. In embracing a framework that cuts across content areas, social cognition is reflected as an approach rather than a content area in social psychology. The social cognitive approach – the focus on identifying social information processes and an associated set of methods appropriate for probing those processes – can be used to study social phenomena not traditionally examined through this lens.

Tuesdays 9-1130am in Psy-E 2839

 

Psy 163TK

Role of epigenetic mechanisms in nervous system control of behavior

Tuedsays 1pm-330pm in Psy-E 2839

 

 

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