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multiple logistic regression, and various approaches to longitudinal data analysis. Covers issues in applied data analysis
such as a priori and post-hoc power analyses, transformation of data, and graphical/written/oral presentation of results.
Data analyzed using the SAS statistical software package, as well as other specialty programs. Mandatory weekly lab
sessions. Prerequisite: Psychology 273 and 274 or equivalent. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
321. Social Development. Analysis of children's social development from multiple theoretical perspectives including
biological, social cognitive, social learning, and ecological perspectives. Includes socialization in the contexts of
families, peers, schools, and neighborhoods and the role of media. Implications for prevention/intervention programs
and social policy are discussed. Permission of the instructor required. Instructor: Asher. 3 units.
322. Advanced Cognitive Development. Advanced level introduction to critical issues in the study of cognitive
development from birth to adolescence. Emphasis on both theoretical accounts of cognitive development and recent
research that informs these explanations. Permission only. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
325. Seminar in Contemporary Psychotherapy. An intensive seminar providing training in a contemporary empirically
supported psychotherapy. Includes readings and discussion of the strategies and techniques of the selected treatment
modality, examination of the empirical support for the treatment, and where possible, supervised practicum experience
providing the treatment to appropriate patient populations. Prerequisite: Previous practicum experience in clinical
psychology and consent of the instructor. 3 units.
327. Theories of Developmental Psychology. Examine worldviews and assumptions that underlie theories in
developmental psychology; discuss the philosophical and historical foundations for key ideas and theories in the study
and understanding of human development, take on the perspectives of key historical figures in developmental
psychology; understand how change and development have been conceptualized over the history of the field; debate
ongoing controversies in the field such as nature-nurture, continuity-discontinuity, universal-culturally specific
development; explore the link among theoretical perspectives, research methodologies and data interpretation.
Permission of instructor required. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
329S. Foundations of Cognitive Development. Introduction to main theories and concepts of cognitive development as
it is studied from psychological and neuroscience perspectives. Instructors: Brannon or Needham. 3 units.
330S. Foundations of Cognitive Psychology. Current concepts and controversies in the way people and other animals
perceive, think, and remember. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
332. Developmental Psychopathology. This course examines major emotional and behavioral disorders of childhood/
adolescence from a developmental perspective. Issues addressed include risk and protective factors, long-term
outcomes, and prevention/ intervention. Instructor: Rabiner. 3 units.
333. Cognition and Teaching. An examination of key phenomena and concepts in cognitive psychology (especially in
areas of perception, attention, memory, comprehension, mental representation, and problem solving) and their
implications for the teaching-learning process at the college level. Instructor: Day. 3 units.
335. Personality Assessment. A course for clinical graduate students on assessment of persons through a variety of
methods, including personological, clinical and semi-structured interviews, analysis of narrative material, and
psychological tests. Introduction to self-report, observer-report, and projective methods. Consent of insructor.
Instructor: Curry. 3 units.
339. Ethical Issues in Research and Clinical Practice. Topics including ethical issues in teaching, research, and clinical
practice. Instructor: Blumenthal. 3 units.
343. Clinical Practicum. Intensive experience and supervision in clinical intervention processes. Student training in
psychotherapy strategies and techniques and in clinical consultation skills is conducted in clinical settings. 0 to 6 units.
Instructor: Staff. Variable credit.
344. Clinical Practicum. Intensive experience and supervision in clinical intervention processes. Student training in
psychotherapy strategies and techniques and in clinical consultation skills is conducted in clinical settings. 0 to 6 units.
Instructor: Staff. Variable credit.
345. Teaching Practicum. Experience based on teaching assistantship for fall semester. Instructor: Bonner. 3 units.
346. Teaching Practicum. Experience based on teaching assistantship for spring semester. Instructor: Bonner. 3 units.
348. Child/Adolescent Psychotherapy. Introduction to psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral approaches to clinical
problems of children and adolescents, with an emphasis on empirically-supported interventions. Instructor: Curry. 3
units.
350. Practicum in Psychological Research. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
352. Child Assessment. Interview methods; intelligence and achievement testing; personality and developmental
batteries; peer, teacher, and parental instruments; and observational techniques. Instructor: Fitzgerald and Whidby. 3
units.
354. Clinical Assessment. This course enables students to master a key professional skill of the clinical psychologist that
is used in internship, clinical practice, and academic research. Theory topics include psychometric measurement, the
science of test construction, the politics and history of mental testing, and the misuses of mental testing. Students learn
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