These topics are addressed from the perspective of how the child's mind works and how it changes. Particular emphasis is placed on the study of development as a means of uncovering significant properties of human intelligence. An examination of children's thought and conceptual development from birth to adolescence. Theories of cognitive change and uses of evidence are emphasized. An advanced seminar that considers current research in social psychology.
Contemporary research conducted by the seminar participants is discussed.
An examination of how people reason about social events and make decisions under uncertainty. The course focuses on the strategies people use in their reasoning and the resulting errors, biases, and successes and the organization of knowledge about the self and others and the effects of this knowledge on the processing of social information. The course discusses the implications for the perception, interpretation, and prediction of others' behavior. The course focuses on theories concerning the ways in which individuals create definitions of the situations in which they find themselves, based on the social information they have available to them. Change Joel Cooper A seminar reviewing theories of attitude change, consistency models, processing models, and reinforcement information models of persuasion.