Courses taught by Dr. Mansfield
- PSY101 General Psychology (Syllabus for Fall 2008)
- This class introduces representative areas of psychology and teaches how to think like a psychologist. This course studies psychology as an empirical science and includes considerable coverage of the scientific approach and methodologies that underpin research findings in Psychology.
- PSY105 General Psychology Lab (Syllabus for Fall 2008)
- This course examines and applies the methods and techniques of scientific inquiry used in psychology, including computer-simulated demonstrations, small group discussion, and written assignments. You will gain hands-on experience with a sample of the phenomena studied in PSY101 and other psychology courses.
- PSY205 Experimental design (Syllabus for Fall 2008)
- This course examines experimental and descriptive research design and methodology. Students will learn about research design and practice designing, conducting, and reporting research in psychology.
- PSY304 False Memories
- This course explores classic and current research from the cognitive sciences, with a particular emphasis on failures in our memory. Topics covered will include: attention and memory, the tip-of-the-tongue effect, remembering names, the hindsight bias, weapon focus, unconcious plagiarism, imagination inflation, false memories, Recovered-memory therapy, reliability of eye-witness testimony, and much, much more!
- Dr. Mansfield is not teaching this course this semester. Here is the syllabus from the last time he taught it:
Fall 2004.
- PSY321 Cognitive Psychology
- This course examines the process by which information is extracted, interpreted, stored, retrieved, and used. We will discuss such topics as perception, attention, memory, concept formation, imagery, language, problem solving, and decision making.
- Dr. Mansfield is not teaching this course this semester. Here is the syllabus from the last time he taught it:
Fall 2004.
- PSY424: Perception and Sensory Processes
- In this course, we will examine the workings of human perception. As we address each sense, we will describe the type of information upon which perception builds, and consider how anatomy and physiology allow us to extract such information.
- Dr. Mansfield is not teaching this course this semester. Here is the syllabus from the last time he taught it:
Fall 2006.
- PSY520 Learning and Cognition
- This course covers the basic processes underlying learning, memory and higher cognitive functions such as conceptualization, problem-solving and language. With an emphasis on findings in cognitive psychology that are relevant to school learning.
- Dr. Mansfield is not teaching this course this semester. Here is the syllabus from the last time he taught it:
Spring 2006
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