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Describe how biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors influence behavior.

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Hallucinogens as Treatment?

Students will learn how LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was studied for potential therapeutic uses until it was banned in 1970, and how researchers today are pioneering a new role for hallucinogens within clinical settings.
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Psychology: Dissociative Disorder

Students will learn how a best-selling book and a popular movie about multiple personality disorder gave rise to a crisis of misdiagnosis and maltreatment, and how that now-debunked diagnosis has been replaced by a new one: dissociative identity disorder.
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Psychology: The Bystander Effect

Students will learn how social psychologists developed the concept of the bystander effect to explain passive reactions to a shocking crime in 1964, and how that theory can help to explain concerning behavior online today.
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Psychology: The Lobotomy and Understanding the Brain

Students will learn about the rise and decline of the prefrontal lobotomy as a treatment for a range of mental disorders, and its lasting impact on neurological psychiatric surgeries today.