PRIMATE PSYCHOLOGY: INSIGHTS INTO HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: PSYCH 202 , ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY 101 , ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY/BOTANY 151 , or ( BIOCORE 381 and 382 ) Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness Breadth - Biological Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand more than 650+ species that comprise the Order Primates. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand how studying nonhuman primates has helped to inform our knowledge about human behavior and physiology, psychological processes, and environmental factors that influence both other animals and us. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply different levels of analysis (proximate, developmental, evolutionary, and phylogenetic) when asking and answering questions about primates and to understand that these levels of analysis offer complementary insights into primate psychology Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify how variation in experience, environments, and development shape individual variation within and across primate species. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Critically evaluate empirical evidence about primate psychological processes as presented in popular media and scientific research articles. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Recognize the various methods used to study primates in captive and natural settings, including behavioral, cognitive, physiological, and neuroscience methods. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Reflect on ethical and animal welfare considerations for nonhuman primates across the settings in which they live. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand more than 650+ species that comprise the Order Primates. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Understand how studying nonhuman primates has helped to inform our knowledge about human behavior and physiology, psychological processes, and environmental factors that influence both other animals and us. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Apply different levels of analysis (proximate, developmental, evolutionary, and phylogenetic) when asking and answering questions about primates and to understand that these levels of analysis offer complementary insights into primate psychology Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify how variation in experience, environments, and development shape individual variation within and across primate species. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Critically evaluate empirical evidence about primate psychological processes as presented in popular media and scientific research articles. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Recognize the various methods used to study primates in captive and natural settings, including behavioral, cognitive, physiological, and neuroscience methods. Audience: Undergraduate 7. Reflect on ethical and animal welfare considerations for nonhuman primates across the settings in which they live. Audience: Undergraduate