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Cummings, Andrew

Teaching Assistant Professor

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  • mood, children, social information processing, emotion recognition

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  • PSYC 1001 - General Psychology
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024
    Provides a foundation for engaging with scientific research on human behavior, and surveys the basic principles and theories of psychology. Topics include biological and hereditary influences on behavior; human perception, attention, learning, and memory; social influences; personality; psychiatric disorders and treatments.
  • PSYC 2111 - Psychological Science I: Statistics
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2023
    Three hours of lecture and one two-hour lab per week. Introduces descriptive and inferential statistics and their roles in psychological research. Topics include correlation, regression, T-test, analysis of variance and selected nonparametric statistics.
  • PSYC 3111 - Psychological Science 2: Research Methods in Psychology
    Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
    Provides a foundation in research methodology to give students the ability to design, conduct, analyze, and present (both verbally and in writing) an empirical study in psychology. Allows students to be effective producers and consumers of research.
  • PSYC 4541 - Special Topics in Psychology - Social Science
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024
    Examines individual or social dimensions of human behavior. Students will develop expertise in basic theories, as well as in measurement techniques and data interpretation regarding issues of societal significance. Students will consider applications of that knowledge, ranging from the development of new theory to solving problems. Particular section content is determined by instructor. PSYC 4541 and/or PSYC 4551 may be taken 3 times with different topics, for a total of 9 credits

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