Tuesday & Thursday 8:00am-9:30am
Classroom: Buchanan A Room 101
- Instructors
Email: Use Canvas Inbox
Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:00am – 11:30 am, Kenny room 3502
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- Madison Elliott
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September 4 – September 27
Madison is a PhD student in Cognitive Science. Her academic background includes the study of Vision Science, Computer Science, Visual Art, and Clinical Psychology. Her professional background is in UX/UI engineering. Madison’s current research investigates the perception of data visualizations- in other words, how we can look at shapes (like a bunch of dots in a scatterplot) and infer statistical information (like a correlation value).
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- Siba Ghrear
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October 2 – October 30
Siba is a PhD student in Developmental Psychology. Her research examines children’s ability to reason about other individuals’ perspectives, and the biases (e.g., the curse of knowledge) that limit this ability.
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- Joanne Park
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November 1 – November 27
Joanne is a PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology. Her research focuses on parent-child relationships, and particularly about how parental characteristics (e.g., ADHD, Executive functioning difficulties, experience of stress) affects how parents think about and respond to their child.
Teaching Assistant:
Email: michaelmbarrus@gmail.com
Office Hours: By appointment (just email to schedule a time!)
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- Michael Barrus
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Michael spends his professional life teaching rats how to gamble in The Laboratory of Molecular and Behavioural Neuroscience here at the University of British Columbia. In his time outside the lab, he wanders the waters of British Columbia with fishing gear, a surfboard, and a camera.
Learning Objectives:
This course will introduce you to psychological science. We’ll focus on social, developmental, and health aspects of psychology. We will begin with an introduction to psychology, and then explore specific topics including…
(1) research methods
(2) emotion and motivation
(3) intelligence
(4) social and personality
(5) development in infancy and early childhood
(6) stress, coping, and health
(7) psychological disorders
(8) psychological treatment.
We will focus on developing the skills necessary to be critical consumers of psychological science.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
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- Understand and explain psychological science research practices
- Describe theories and research on social and personality psychology
- Describe how psychological changes occur across development, focusing on the physical, cognitive, social and moral domains
- Describe the core features and understand the psychological experience of a variety of mental disorders
- Appreciate applications of psychological science to everyday life
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