2012 Summer School Bulletin - Emory College - Emory University

environmental influences on behavior, aggression, courtship and mating strategies, parental
behavior foraging, predator-prey relationships, and social organization.
323-00A. DRUGS AND BEHAVIOR
10:00 a .m .–11:20 a .m . Daily . 1st session . Credit, 4 hrs . Neill
First-year students cannot take this course. This course is a survey of the neurobehavioral
effects of the various classes of psychoactive drugs, e.g., stimulants, tranquilizers,
hallucinogens, etc. Although human experience is taken as the starting point of each drug
effect covered, most of the experimental data presented are concerned with attempts
to understand behavioral drug effects using nonhuman animal models. A fundamental
idea is that by understanding the brain mechanisms through which psychoactive drugs
exert their effects, we can understand the brain mechanisms of pain, perception, anxiety,
schizophrenia, depression, etc.
330-00A. PERSONALITY THEORIES
10:00–11:20 a .m . Daily . 1st session . Credit, 4 hrs . Carter
This is a survey course covering psychological theory, history, and research in the area of
personality. Topics such as controversies in the field of personality assessment, cognitive
and biological influences on personality, genetics and personality, and gender differences
in personality will be covered.
415S-00A. SLEEP AND DREAMING
2:30–4:45 p .m . MWF . 1st session . Credit, 4 hrs . Rodman
Prerequisites: Psych 110 or 103 or Bio 141/142 or other equivalent introductory
biopsychology background, plus at least one additional course in any area of psychology,
NBB, anthropology, or philosophy. Not for S/U. This course focuses on the neural
mechanisms and phenomenology of sleep as a basis for discussing its implications for
behavior, emotion, cognition, evolution, and related philosophical issues. Specific topics
to be addressed include the neurobiology of sleep, the role of sleep in memory and other
Course Number Key and Dates
00A: First session May 21 – June 29 00F: Miscellaneous Varies
00B: Entire summer May 21 – August 10 0PA, 0PB, 0PC Permission required
00C: Second Session July 2 – August 10
MAY: Maymester May 15–June 1
cognitive phenomena, theories of dreaming, relationships between sleep, mood, and other
drives and conditions, individual and species differences in sleep behavior, lucid dreaming
and other subjective components of dream experience, and sleep as a model for studying
states of consciousness.
475-MAY. PERSONALITY AND CREATIVITY
9:00 a .m .–12:30 p .m . Daily . Maymester, Credit, 4 hrs . Duke
Is there a relationship between madness and creativity? Between personality and creativity?
Are there such things are creative people versus non-creative people? Does a person
need to have psychological pain or a troubled life in order to generate great art, music,
literature, or dance? Early versions of this latter idea can be found in writings about the
Saturnine hypothesis during the Renaissance where it was believed that those born under
the sign of Saturn (melancholics) were more creative. This notion has lived on into the
21st century, but in more modern form. Must creative people be bipolar or strung out on
drugs? Is it necessary to take a bullet in order to be a hip-hop sensation? But there are other
questions. What about creativity in plain old normal people? Is creativity limited only to
the arts? Does it play a role in business success? Science? Politics? Is creativity in nonartistic
domains the same as it is in the arts? Does the Saturnine hypothesis remain in force? In this
seminar we will examine these and other questions through examination of the lives and
works of creative people—writers, singers, dancers, painters, sculptors, business people,
scientists, world leaders and politicians. You will also have a chance to express your own
creativity in the form of a final “creation” that represents your “answer” to the question
of the relationship between personality and creativity. Required text: Creativity, M.
Csikszentmihalyi. Readings will also be provided in class or online.
498R-00B. DIRECTED READING
Both sessions . Variable credit, 1–12 hrs . Faculty
Prerequisite: Psychology majors only; permission is required prior to enrollment. Students
must have consent of faculty member and agreement on a topic. Students are required to
complete a contract with regular faculty member detailing their research. A list of regular
faculty members of the psychology department who are eligible to supervise may be found
on the back of the contract form. Only faculty members whose names are on this list
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