Research Methods in Psychology This course will provide students with an understanding of the research methodology used by psychologists. Students will learn to read psychological studies and other related research as informed consumers. Students will collect, analyze, and interpret data during lab assignments. They will also design an empirical study, review the related literature, and write a formal APA-style research proposal. (PSYC 0105 and PSYC 0201 or MATH 0116 or ECON 0111 (formerly ECON 0210); not open to first-year students; open to psychology and neuroscience majors)

Introduction to Psycholinguistics This course will provide an overview of the topics and experimental methods that are central to the field of psycholinguistics. Through lectures, discussions and demonstrations we will learn how language is acquired, organized, and represented in our minds and what experimental research techniques psycholinguists use to answer questions about various language phenomena such as speech perception and production, sentence processing, language development, bilingualism, and language disorders

Cognitive Psychology Questions about the nature of the mind, thinking, and knowledge have a long and rich history in the field of psychology. This course will examine the theoretical perspectives and empirically documented phenomena that inform our current understanding of cognition. Lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and experiments will form the basis for our explorations of cognition in this class. Topics to be considered include attention, perception, memory, knowledge, problem solving, and decision making.

Introduction to Psychology  This course will provide a general introduction to the field of psychology. The most central and important theories, concepts, findings, controversies, and applications in the following areas will be considered: biological bases of behavior, learning, perception, thinking, development, personality, psychological disorders, and social behavior. (Open to Juniors and Seniors by waiver only) 3 hrs lect./1 hr. disc.

Olga Parshina

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This course was fairly easy as all of the exams are take home and open note and open internet. The class was just lecture based and discussions were very interesting. I would recommend this course especially as a distribution credit. 

I think this was a pretty fun class. A lot of times, she pauses class to do "group experiments" and will put us through quick psychological tests to make the material we are learning more familiar. She is a nice teacher, and all assignments are take home and done outside of class, besides the graded tickets that let you leave the discussion section. Would recommend.

This class was amazing because all of our quizzes and tests are take home and open note which takes away the stress of memorization and puts the emphasis on understanding the material. Parshina has a clear enthusiasm for what she teaches so  everything is very interesting.