2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSYC 203 - Laboratory in Thinking Processes

Type of Course: Laboratory, Discussion
Introduces students to the how-to of doing qualitative interview research on reasoning. The course provides an introduction to interview methods and qualitative data analysis, to some of the existing qualitative research on reasoning, and on how to construct a specific research question. Students then conduct studies on such questions as: How do people reason about the causes of everyday events and of social problems? What kinds of processes do people use to sort out contradictory accounts? How do people draw conclusions from given information? There will be flexibility for students to engage more deeply in content areas of particular interest to them.

Prerequisites: PSYC 105 , PSYC 108  and PSYC 109 .

Instructor: Ms. Falmagne

When Offered: Offered periodically

Faculty: Rachel Falmagne, Ph.D. - Professor of Psychology