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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Evansville
CLASSES
Psychology 121: Introduction to Psychology
Surveys major areas of psychology, including methodology, learning, memory, development, personality, psychopathology, and additional areas. Focuses on historical development, research findings, and applications in contemporary life. Fall, spring, summer.
Psychology 245: Statistics for Psychologists
Introduces descriptive statistics, probability, decision theory, and testing of hypotheses by both parametric and nonparametric tests. Emphasizes basic concepts, SPSS computer analysis, and APA-format presentation of results. Three hours lecture, two hours lab. Prerequisites: Nine hours of psychology, including Psychology 121; general education mathematics requirement. Fall.
Psychology 388: Conspiracy, Occult & Paranormal Psychology
Belief formation is a fundamental aspect of the human psyche that influences self-perception and interpersonal relations. This course will explore how and why humans come to believe in constructs that have little evidentiary support and what the ramifications of these instances of acceptance are at personal, social, and political levels. One example of this to understand the personality factors that predict acceptance of paranormal or conspiracy related beliefs. Another is to examine how perceptual processes contribute to pattern identification.
Psychology 450: Learning Theory
Examines neurological, environmental, and cognitive factors that influence acquisition and retention of new information or new behaviors. Emphasis on historical theories of classical and instrumental conditioning and how they relate to stimulus control of behavior and animal cognition, including memory. Explores areas of applied learning. Learning concepts reinforced with interaction with a virtual reality program. Prerequisites: Psychology 121, 246. Spring, alternate years.
Psychology 451: Pioneers of the Brain
Scientific pursuit is often driven by personal passion in addition to simple curiosity. In this course, the work of a selection of highly influential researchers in the psychological neurosciences will be covered. Their contributions to the field will be evaluated chronologically over the course of their career with attention to historical and personal elements that help to contextualize their stories. Much of the research will pertain to learning, memory and emotion.
Neuroscience 125: Introduction to Neuroscience
Surveys development, organization, and function of the human brain and nervous system - how we sense, move, feel, and think. Introduces neural bases of mood, emotion, sleep, learning, memory, language, and attention. Assumes minimal prior knowledge of biology, physics, and chemistry.
Neuroscience 126: Research Techniques in Neuroscience
The aim of this course is to provide students with experience with laboratory techniques, experimental paradigms and real-life exposure to the concepts and research findings in Neuroscience. Course involves working with live non-human animal subjects. Prerequiste/Corequisite: NEUR 125. Spring.
Neuroscience 325: Social and Cooperative Neuroscience
This course will examine interactions between organisms under a variety of circumstances. This will be done by considering studies of play, aggression, mating, parental care, altruism, and vicarious learning. We will explore the psychological factors that govern these interactions, as well as what is known about the neurobiological mechanisms on which they depend.
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