Restricted to PSYC, COCP, and COSP only.

This is a graduate seminar in social and cognitive aspects of behavior. The primary objective of is to provide graduate-level foundational knowledge in two core areas of psychology. These include social psychology and cognitive psychology. The secondsty objective is to promote integration of the presented material across these areas of psychology, and the value of contextualization and critical perspective-taking in psychological science and practice. Through primary readings, presentations, and class discussion, students will gain graduate-level foundational knowledge across key areas of social aspects of behavior including persuasion, attribution, stigma and prejudice, and altruism and aggression; gain graduate-level foundational knowledge across key areas of cognitive aspects of behavior including perception, attention, memory, language, decision making, and intelligence; and integrate social and cognitive aspects of behavior to conceptualize typical and atypical behavior.