17:32:55

>> RACHEL HALE: Hi, everybody. My name

17:32:58 is Rachel Hale. Hopefully you can see me. I can't see
17:33:01 myself.
17:33:04 I am a staff advisor for cognitive science and
17:33:07 psychology. I'm originally from valet
17:33:10 I don't Ca
17:33:13 Valeo North California
17:33:16 and I transferred to U.C. Davis and I
17:33:19 majored in German and history. And I liked it so much
17:33:22 that I never left that I still work here now. So
17:33:25 a fun fact about me is that I actually played the flute
17:33:29 in 5th grade all the way through high school and into
17:33:32 college. And I recently got
17:33:35 my flute fixed so I can play with
17:33:38 my kid who plays the clarinet.
17:33:43
>> MALINA GILLIES-DOHERTY: Hi, everyone. My name is
17:33:47 Malina Gillies-Doherty. I'm the undergraduate programs manager for
17:33:50 psychology and cognitive science. And I
17:33:53 also went to U.C. Davis for undergrad and I
17:33:56 studied international relation and history. And I really enjoyed
17:34:00 those as well as all
17:34:03 my generation education class and I went to
17:34:06 Sacramento university for educational leadership and I love Davis so
17:34:09 much that I have come back as
17:34:12 staff and I really love working here and I hope you love
17:34:15 it as much as I do. fun fact about me.
17:34:18 I really juggling. That's something I
17:34:21 do to distress
17:34:25 . So you might find me juggling
17:34:28 out of Young Hall one of these days.
17:34:33
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>> CHRISTEN TAMISIN: Hello, everybody. My
17:34:36 name is Christen Tamisin. And I'm originally from
17:34:39 felon pianos and
17:34:42 Philippines before I moved to the U.S. And
17:34:45 I was from Fullerton
17:34:49 California and then I went to Davis for my undergrad.
17:34:52 And I graduated last year with a bachelor science in
17:34:55 psychology and also a Bachelor of Arts in
17:34:58 philosophy. Fun fact about me, I recently bought a
17:35:01 switch so I can play animal crossing.
17:35:07
>> STACIE JENKINS: All right, thanks, team. So to
17:35:10 get started with learning more about
17:35:13 psychology and cognitive science, here are some of the
17:35:16 thing that we'll be discussing in the next few minutes.
17:35:20 We're going to breakdown a little bit more about what these
17:35:23 majors entail. And I want to give you
17:35:26 a glimpse as to what research would
17:35:29 look like if you want to get involved at an
17:35:32 undergraduate level and then after that, we're really just going
17:35:36 to turn it around and give you the floor so that we can
17:35:39 answer as many of your questions as
17:35:42 possible. So let's get started talking about the majors.
17:35:46 We imagine that these 3 questions are
17:35:49 probably watts on your mind right now
17:35:52 . So, we'll take a look at
17:35:55 what psychology and cognitive science can look
17:35:59 like for you as majoring in it. We'll also
17:36:02 take a look or give some samples of what the classe
17:36:05 s are that you could be taking. And then
17:36:08 we also want to briefly just acknowledge
17:36:11 some common career fields that
17:36:14 graduates will enter after graduating in these majors.
17:36:17
We have a handout
17:36:20 that we're going to give to you at the
17:36:23 end of the presentation electronically. So
17:36:26 that these three questions in particular
17:36:30 , you have more information
17:36:33 electronically that will stay with you afterwards.
17:36:40 So if you're interested in
17:36:43 psychology, you have three
17:36:46 options. The most general option
17:36:49 for psychology is our Bachelor of
17:36:52 Hearts or an
17:36:55 Arts with AB which U.C. Davis uses
17:36:58 the Latin form of Bachelor of
17:37:01 Latin and that's why the A becomes before the B. This
17:37:04 is general psychology that allows students to really
17:37:08 tailor it to what their interests are in psychology
17:37:12 where you have a chance to kind of focus
17:37:15 and in
17:37:18 for different areas of psychology. So the
17:37:21 areas of psychology that our faculty really
17:37:24 specialize in is neuroscience
17:37:28 or cognition. Biological psychology,
17:37:33 personality and social psychology, and then
17:37:36 developmental or lifespan psychology.
17:37:40 We also have a separate focus
17:37:44 in quantitative psychology. And I'll talk
17:37:47 more about that in a second.
17:37:50 So, if you wanted to be more specialized
17:37:53 than what the general Bachelor of Arts can offer
17:37:56 you. We do have two
17:37:59 bachelor's of science options. The first
17:38:02 bachelor's of science in psychology is with a
17:38:05 biological emphasis where students can really
17:38:09 get a whole bunch of S.T.E.M.
17:38:12 classes done towards a science they're preparing for in grad
17:38:15 school. It has bio,
17:38:18 chem, physics, clack
17:38:22 calculatio calculus. And it
17:38:25 focuses on biological and some neuroscience
17:38:29 psychology.
The other
17:38:31 bachelor's of science option we have is the quantitative. And
17:38:35 that's really a combination of psychology
17:38:37 and statistics.
17:38:41 For cognitive science, we also have
17:38:44 three majors. A
17:38:47 Bachelor of Arts, which is our more general option.
17:38:50 And it allows students to focus
17:38:54 where they want in the various
17:38:57 cognitive science disciplines. Which includes
17:39:00 psychology, linguistics,
17:39:03 philosophy,
17:39:06 computer science, neuroscience.
17:39:09 So, if there's one or two of
17:39:12 those disciplines that really interest
17:39:15 you in cognitive science, you can still focus on those with
17:39:18 the Bachelors of Arts. But
17:39:21 for the bachelor's of science options, you can
17:39:24 really dive into a neuroscience
17:39:28 emphasis or a compute
17:39:31 ational emphasis. And the bo
17:39:34 batch lar of
17:39:38 batchBachelor of Science and
17:39:41 computationtationnal, and the
17:39:44 computer science major.
17:39:49
Okay. So, this is a
17:39:52 snapshot of what the handout is that we're going to make
17:39:55 available to you at the end of the presentation. So that you
17:39:58 can see there's some sample courses
17:40:01 that are available on this sheet to give you
17:40:04 a sense of what will it look like when you
17:40:07 actually start taking major classes. So for
17:40:10 instance on psychology, you'll see that there's
17:40:14 classes like human memory. Psychology of
17:40:17 music. There's health psychology.
17:40:20 There's also abnormal
17:40:23 psychology. Where you learn about psychosis.
17:40:26 And developmental psychology classes like
17:40:30 infant development or developmental
17:40:33 disorders. Which is where you learn about add
17:40:37 ADD or autism. And then, the other
17:40:41 piece of information about psychology you'll get on this
17:40:44 handout is some really common areas for
17:40:47 careers that students often seek when they graduate
17:40:50 in psychology. So you'll notice there's
17:40:53 a lot of therapy or counseling type of professions on
17:40:56 this sheet.
And there's also
17:41:00 things like education and business,
17:41:03 and the healthcare industry.
17:41:09 For cognitive science, some sample
17:41:12 classes are minds
17:41:15 , brains and computers. Language development.
17:41:20 Philosophy of the mind.
17:41:23 There's a lot of neuroscience classes.
17:41:27 And there's also a lot of artificial
17:41:31 intelligence or machine learning type of
17:41:34 classes. And then, again, you'll receive
17:41:37 information about common careers that
17:41:40 cognitive science can lead to, including the business industry
17:41:45 and user-experience or artificial intelligence.
17:41:52 Imagine at this point you all might have a lot of questions,
17:41:56 especially, as I'm talking about what kinds of
17:41:59 classes you might be taking or what kind of careers you can do
17:42:02 . And that's awesome. I hope that you're submitting
17:42:05 them in the Q&A so we can get to them
17:42:08 when we're done with this video. Right now,
17:42:11 we want to share just a 5-minute video on what
17:42:15 research could look like for you if you want to get involved
17:42:18 as a student at U.C. Davis.
17:42:22 Go ahead, Christen.
17:42:30
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17:42:39
>> Hey, come on in.
17:42:42 Yeah, have a seat. Excited?
17:42:46 Yeah, you did really well on your interview last week. We're
17:42:49 excited to have you join the group. Do you want to see what we
17:42:52 did with our social anxiety research program last week?
17:42:55 Check it out. This is a video of the
17:42:58 social interaction test that we used in most of our studies.
17:43:01 Here's a mouse in this cage here. And you can see our
17:43:04 test mouse is really interested in it. See how she's
17:43:07 getting right up close to the cage? This is very
17:43:11 typical in mice. They come across the thing they don't
17:43:14 know and want to check it out. Look at this mouse. See
17:43:17 how she's staying back? She's not approaching the cage, but she's
17:43:20 paying attention to it at the same time. We measure
17:43:23 how much time the mouse is sort of watching the cage and we
17:43:26 call that social vigilance. This behavior is interesting
17:43:29 , because developmental psychologists see a very similar
17:43:32 combination of avoidance and vigilance sometimes in
17:43:35 children. They call it behavioral inhibition and that's one of the
biggest
17:43:39 risk factor for developing anxiety problems
17:43:42 later in life. So humans, we can take
17:43:45 a brain scan and see what parts of the brain are active when the
17:43:48 person is feeling anxious, but we can't see what individual
17:43:51 selves are doing. We can do that in mice. Today you're going
17:43:54 to see why that's important. Let's go up
17:43:58 .
17:44:04 Hey, Emily. Remember our new lab
17:44:07 member?
>> Yeah. So, welcome.
17:44:10 Today, we're looking at brain tissue that has been stained for
17:44:13 individual neuron associated with social vigilance behavior
17:44:16 . But before we can have you start helping out,
17:44:19 we have to make sure you're wearing all your personal
17:44:22 protective equipment. So the first thing you're going to nide
17:44:27 need is a lab coat. Pair of
17:44:30 gloves.
17:44:33 Can't forget the eye protection.
17:44:37 And a bike helmet.
17:44:40 I'm just kidding about that one. So come on in.
17:44:48 We're going to be looking at brain tissue that has
17:44:51 been stained for os toes
17:44:54 sin
17:44:58 Oxytocin neuron. And this is associated with
17:45:01 good feeling like love, social
17:45:04 interaction and parenting behavior. And
17:45:08 oxygen tones to
17:45:11 Son
17:45:14 Oxytocin is working in some regions of the brain to
17:45:17 help promote the feel good feeling and working
17:45:20 in other regions of the brain to actually promote anxiety