Fall 2024

COLL-C104: Opinions, Beliefs, and Truth: The Challenges of Psychology and Neuroscience

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This course will address the questions of what we can know and how we can know it. We'll start with general discussions about the scientific enterprise: what the scientific process really is vs. what most people believe it to be. We will see how science is built on ignorance and failure, and learn that these things should be celebrated, not shamed. We will also take a critical look at the scientific process and explore the roles of responsibility, ethics, and diversity in science. We will investigate the rich but imperfect history of psychology and other sciences to see how to use observation and experimentation to overcome our ignorance. By surveying scientific techniques and methods, we will wrestle with ideas about what experiments and observations can (and can't) reveal and how and what can be learned from them.

PSY-P357: Thinking Like Machines

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This course is designed to help you think the way a computer does: to break a big problem down into smaller parts and then use logic and a systematic approach to achieve solutions. It will provide skills that will help you in your future classes and help you think more clearly about our increasingly technologically-saturated world. You'll be empowered to explore and learn about a range of technologies that will benefit you in in school, research, and your future career. These same skills will also make it easier to understand how computers work and by the end of the course you will be comfortable writing your own small computer programs. It is intended for first- and second-year undergraduate students with no prior programming experience. This is not a course focused on teaching you how to program in a specific language, rather, it will teach you how think about programming so that you can pick up whatever programming language you need much more quickly in the future.

PSY-K300: Statistical Techniques

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Many students think of K300 as a math course. While it is true that we will perform some calculations along the way, this course is not about the math. We would consider this class a failure if what you learned to do was to plug numbers into arbitrary formulas for unknown reasons in order to generate meaningless answers. Instead, we want you to think about the underlying logic and principles of statistical analysis so that you understand what the numbers tell you (and what they don't tell you), not just how to generate them.

Past Semesters

PSY-P357 - Thinking Like Machines
Section #9718, Mon and Wed 9:10 am – 10:25 am
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #9717, Mon and Wed asynchronous lectures, Fri workshops 9:10 am – 10:25 am
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COLL-C104 - Opinions, Beliefs, and Truth: The Challenges of Psychology and Neuroscience
Section #13713, Mon and Wed lectures, Fri discussions
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PSY-P357 - Thinking Like Machines
Section #10725, Mon and Wed 12:40 pm – 1:55 pm
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #10955, Mon and Wed asynchronous lectures, Fri workshops 1:50 pm – 2:40 pm
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PSY-P357 - Thinking Like Machines
Section #10478, Mon and Wed 9:10 am – 10:25 am
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #10476, Mon and Wed asynchronous lectures, Fri workshops 9:10 am – 10:00 am
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COLL-C104 - Opinions, Beliefs, and Truth: The Challenges of Psychology and Neuroscience
Section #31671, Mon and Wed lectures, Fri discussions
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PSY-P357 - Thinking Like Machines
Section #11613, Mon and Wed 10:20 am – 11:35 am
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #11911, Mon and Wed asynchronous lectures, Fri workshops 1:50 pm – 2:40 pm
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PSY-P357 - Thinking Like Machines
Section #11589, Mon and Wed 8:45 am – 10:00 am
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #11586, Mon and Wed asynchronous lectures, Fri workshops 9:10 am – 10:00 am
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COLL-C104 - Opinions, Beliefs, and Truth: The Challenges of Psychology and Neuroscience
Section #20976, Mon and Wed lectures, Fri discussions
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PSY-P357 - Thinking Like Machines
Section #21877, Tu and Th 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #22581, Mon and Wed asynchronous lectures, Fri workshops 3:00 pm – 3:50 pm
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PSY-P357 - Thinking Like Machines
Section #31352, Mon and Wed 11:30 am – 12:45 pm via Zoom
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
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COLL-C104 - Opinions, Beliefs, and Truth: The Challenges of Psychology and Neuroscience
Section #35165, Mon and Wed asynchronous lectures, Fri Zoom discussions
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PSY-P357 - Thinking Like Machines
Section #31352, Tu and Th 3:15 pm – 4:30 pm via Zoom
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #32925, Mon and Wed asynchronous lectures, Fri workshops 8:45 am – 9:35 am via Zoom
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #3855, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #3844, Wed and Fri 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #3720, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #7337, Wed and Fri 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #4039, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #4026, Wed and Fri 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #3899, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #8038, Wed and Fri 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-P335 - Cognitive Psychology
Section #6109, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #4283, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #4270, Wed and Fri 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-P660 - The Teaching of Psychology
Section #4294, Fri 10:45 am – 12:00 pm in PY 228
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #4084, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #8527, Wed and Fri 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #5520, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #7614, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #7601, Wed and Fri 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-P660 - The Teaching of Psychology
Section #7641, Mon 11:30 am – 12:45 pm in PY 230
Section #33986, Tue 11:15 am – 12:30 pm in PY 230
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #5705, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #10772, Wed and Fri 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #4120, Mon 9:10 am – 10:00 am in PY 111
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #6500, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-P660 - The Teaching of Psychology
Section #6527, Wed 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm in PY 115
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #6044, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #6024, Tue and Thu 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm in PY 226
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HON-BF300 - Statistical Techniques Honors Section
Section #13294, Mon 12:20 pm – 1:10 pm in PY 227
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PSY-P101 - Introduction to Psychology
Section #6026, Tue and Thu 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm in PY 226
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #5569, Mon 11:15 am – 12:05 pm in PY 111
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PSY-P211 - Methods of Experimental Psychology
Section #19768, Mon 9:05 am – 9:55 am in PY 100
PSY-P660 - The Teaching of Psychology
Section #19796, Wed 11:15 am – 12:05 pm in PY 113
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PSY-P335 - Cognitive Psychology
Section #19779, Mon, Wed, and Fri 2:30 pm – 3:20 pm in PY 101
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COLL-C105 - Brains & Minds, Robots & Computers
Section #16358, Mon and Wed 9:05 am – 9:55 am in BH 006
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PSY-K300 - Statistical Techniques
Section #10641, Tue and Thu 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm in PY 226
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HON-BF300 - Statistical Techniques Honors Section
Section #19422, Mon 11:15 am – 12:05 pm in PY 286
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PSY-P101 - Introduction to Psychology
Section #10650, Tue and Thu 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm in PY 226
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PSY-P199 - Planning Your Psychology Career
Taught Spring 2012, 2013, and 2014
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COGS-Q301 - Brain and Cognition
Taught Fall 2012
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PSY-P102 - Introduction to Psychology
Taught Fall 2011
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