UWF Catalog cover 2006/2007 Catalog
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EXP-EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
 

EXP 3082          Experimental Psychology          3

Prerequisite: PSY 2012, STA 2023.

Corequisite: EXP 3082L.

Scientific method and experimental techniques in psychology. Fundamental assumptions and principles of scientific observation and research design are discussed. Students learn a number of techniques specific to psychological research. Relevant ethical issues are addressed. Students will learn to interpret and evaluate research and to communicate research findings.
 

EXP 3082L Experimental Psychology Lab            1

Prerequisites; PSY 2012, STA 2023.

Corequisite: EXP 3082.

Scientific method and experimental techniques in psychology. Students will conduct a series of exercises and laboratory experiments, perform and interpret statistical analysis of data collected, and report experimental findings in standard technical format.

EXP 4204          Sensation and Perception                3

Prerequisite: PSY 2012, STA 2023, EXP 3082.

Will survey the theory and literature related to the study of sensation and perception. Topics will include the neural mechanisms involved in coding sensory information, visual processing, audition, speech perception, cutaneous and chemical senses, development of perceptual processes, and impairment of vision and hearing.

EXP 4250          Human Factors Psychology                3

Surveys the field of human factors psychology. Specifically, the principles of psychology from various specialty areas (e.g., cognitive, experimental, industrial/organizational, physiological etc.) will be applied to the study of human performance in work settings. Students will learn how work is designed to capitalize on cognitive and physical capabilities and compensate for human limitations. Students will also become familiar with the tools and techniques that human factors psychologists use to study human-machine interaction and work design. Offered concurrently with EXP 5256; graduate students will be assigned additional work.

EXP 4404          Psychology of Learning          3

Prerequisite: PSY 2012.

Principles and applications of learning theories, including conditioning and extinction, reinforcement and punishment, attention, memory, cognitive processes and physiological correlates of memory and cognition. It is preferred that the student has had several other psychology courses.

EXP 4507          Memory and Cognition         3

Prerequisite: PSY 2012, STA 2023, EXP 3082.

Will Survey theory and literature related to the study of human memory and cognition. Topics will include attention, memory, imagery, language and bilingualism, problem solving, matamemory, expertise, and the development of language and cognitive processes.

EXP 4507L        Laboratory in Memory and Cognition         1

Prerequisite: STA 2023, EXP 3082, EXP 3082L.

Pre/Corequisite: EXP 4404.

Students will learn about the research methods used to investigate topics in memory and cognition. Students will conduct experiments, perform statistical analysis appropriate for the data generated, and prepare brief reports of results using APA style. Students will complete a final project in which they design and conduct an experiment in the area of memory and cognition, analyze the data, and prepare an APA style research report.

EXP 5208          Advanced Sensation and Perception        3

Prerequisite: EXP 4204 or PSB 4003.

Students will develop an in-depth understanding of how human beings use environmental energies to sense and perceive the world. Topics include the examination of neural systems involved in vision, audition, somatosensation, olfaction, and gustation. Physiological, psychophysical, and cognitive research methodologies used to understand and predict human perception will be discussed.

EXP 5256          Human Factors Psychology           3

Surveys the field of human factors psychology. Specifically, the principles of psychology from various specialty areas (e.g., cognitive, experimental, industrial/organizational, physiological etc. ) will be applied to the study of human performance in work settings. Students will learn how work is designed to capitalize on cognitive and physical capabilities and compensate for human limitations. Students will also become familiar with the tools and techniques that human factors psychologists use to study human-machine interaction and work design. Offered concurrently with EXP 4250; graduate students will be assigned additional work.

EXP 5575          Judgment and Decision Making            3

Seminar on current theories of human judgment and decision making. Normative models of decision making (based in statistics, philosophy, psychology, and economics) and descriptive models of decision models of decision making (based on research in cognitive psychology and social psychology) will be discussed. Naturalistic decision making and the role of expertise in judgment and decision making will also be discussed. Topics include judgment and decision making under a variety of conditions of uncertainty, including aviation, diagnosis and treatment decision in clinical psychology and medicine, forecasting, risk assessment, and jury decisions.

EXP 6506          Advanced Cognitive Psychology           3

Prerequisite: EXP 3082 and EXP 4404.

Students will develop a broad understanding of current research and theorizing in the various topics of memory and cognition, including attention, memory systems and processes, representation of knowledge, metamemory, language, problem solving, expertise, decision making, and creativity. Emphasis will be placed on current research and theory in human memory cognition. Students will develop an in-depth understanding of a selected topic in cognition and will write a literature review paper discussing current research and theory in this topic.


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