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What You’ll Study

探索复杂的思想和人类行为的理论, philosophical, and empirical perspectives.

教授们超越了传统的课堂,采用体验式学习技术,例如:

  • service projects
  • community based research
  • 生理学,认知和知觉方面的实验室
  • field work

Meet Professor Jen Mozolic

With her background in cognitive neuroscience, 心理学教授Jennifer Mozolic表示,她“对大脑支持人类思想和行为的方式着迷”. In my classes, 我喜欢把学生们和神经解剖学和神经生理学的基础知识联系起来,为他们提供亲身体验的机会——比如触摸人类大脑或听到神经细胞发出的信号.”

With Professor Mozolic’s guidance, 你将在课堂上学习大脑行为的基础知识, lab, and within the community. 学生们总是用“具有挑战性”这样的形容词来形容Mozolic, supportive, and dedicated.

“看到学生们利用他们对大脑的理解来探索像感官知觉这样的复杂能力,这真的很令人兴奋, movement, learning and memory,” Mozolic says. “许多学生都热衷于深入了解阅读障碍等疾病, ADHD, autism, 成瘾和阿尔茨海默病对他们或他们所爱的人的生活产生了影响.”

Explore Classes in This Program

PSY 3100

Biopsychology

生物心理学是研究首页的行为如何, thoughts, 而情绪是由神经系统支持的. 了解基本的大脑结构和生物学过程,它们是心理学家研究的许多不同行为和障碍的基础, including development, brain injury, autism, movement, motivation, and addiction. If you love this course, 然后生物心理学II将主题扩展到包括神经可塑性, stroke, memory, and language.

PSY 3240

Sensation and Perception

探索人类如何收集和解释感官系统提供的信息. We’ll examine the physical properties of the sensory signal; the physiological mechanisms of the sensory organs; and the psychological processes that filter, construct, and influence our perceptual experiences.

PSY 4210

Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience

探索各种各样的理论和研究,这些理论和研究帮助首页更好地理解有意识的思想和行动,以及无意识的行为调节. 首页将重点研究口渴和饥饿的神经机制, emotion, attention, learning and memory, language, and decision-making. 你将参与一些实验练习和演示,用于研究课程概念.

Meet Our Faculty

我喜欢在沃伦威尔逊教书,因为这里的学生很有趣,很有吸引力. 我非常幸运,因为我有一份工作,每天都能学到新的东西,或者以不同的方式思考这个世界.

Jen Mozolic, Ph.D.
Jen Mozolic
Jen Mozolic, Ph.D.
Robert Swoap

我致力于为学生共同创造丰富而有意义的体验. Whether in the classroom, on a field course, or on the dance floor, I love to help students learn, grow, connect, and thrive.

Robert Swoap, Ph.D.
Robert Swoap
Robert Swoap, Ph.D.
Martha Knight-Oakley

My students love complexity. 他们想了解人们所有美丽、血腥的细节. 他们希望对生活质量产生影响. 他们的问题、研究和行动绝对激励着我.

Martha Knight-Oakley, Ph.D.
Martha Knight-Oakley
Martha Knight-Oakley, Ph.D.
Cristina Reitz-Krueger

我相信社会科学的力量可以让世界变得更美好, 我喜欢和那些想要走出去并真正做出改变的学生一起工作!

Cristina L. Reitz-Krueger, Ph.D.
Cristina Reitz-Krueger
Cristina L. Reitz-Krueger, Ph.D.
Jen Mozolic
Hinds Feet Farm
Meet Our Students

Neuroscience with a Personal Touch

参观“心理学专业探索”班 Hinds Feet Farm (HFF)这是一个为从后天性或创伤性脑损伤中恢复的人提供的日间项目.

The Psychology Department has partnered with HFF for more than five years in a number of courses; together, 他们从事各种各样的活动,从壁画和小册子到听力项目.

“与沃伦威尔逊学生的社交互动和参与为团队合作树立了一个很好的榜样. It was fun and generated an abundance of smiles; the personalities had open hearts and a caring, compassionate disposition,” the HFF day program coordinator said.

“我看到学生们真正蓬勃发展的一个项目是首页与Hinds ' Feet Farm的合作, 一个针对脑损伤患者的康复项目,” professor Jen Mozolic says. “Through this partnership, students work and learn alongside the HFF members to explore their interests and values; complete artistic and informational projects like paintings, podcasts and documentary films; and educate the wider community about the causes and effects of brain injury.”