Analysis of historic and psychological context for issues of Soviet/American relations. Dynamics of conflict resolution and negotiation; theories of human aggression and drives toward war and intersocietal conflict; cognitive and motivational limits on rationality; risk assessment; individual and small-group decision-making dynamics regarding foreign policy.

This course explores the development of children from birth to adolescence, in a wide range of areas including biological, cognitive, linguistic, social, and personality development. It also covers the effects of genes, experience, and social context on children's development.

This course explores the development of children from birth to adolescence, in a wide range of areas including biological, cognitive, linguistic, social, and personality development. It also covers the effects of genes, experience, and social context on children's development.

This course explores the development of children from birth to adolescence, in a wide range of areas including biological, cognitive, linguistic, social, and personality development. It also covers the effects of genes, experience, and social context on children's development.

Survey of theory and research in developmental psychology with emphasis upon changes in behavior throughout the life span, including prenatal development.

Theoretical and experimental analysis of human learning and memory; short-term and long-term memory; coding and retrieval processes; transfer and interference; mechanisms of forgetting.

Theoretical and experimental analysis of human learning and memory; short-term and long-term memory; coding and retrieval processes; transfer and interference; mechanisms of forgetting.

Theoretical and experimental analysis of human learning and memory; short-term and long-term memory; coding and retrieval processes; transfer and interference; mechanisms of forgetting.

An overview of topics and theories in language acquisition: early development of speech perception and production, word learning, generalizing linguistic structure, and differences between first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and bilingualism. We will also compare different theoretical approaches, and address the classic "nature vs. nurture" question by examining both traditional generativist approaches and more recent usage based models.