PSYC 101 - Introduction to Psychology

Institution:

Montana State University-Northern

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Description:

3 semester credits An introductory survey of the scientifi c discipline of psychology. Attention will be given to such standard topics as the nature of empirical, scientifi c research, and the learning process, intelligence, perception, personality, motivation, emotion, cognitive processes, abnormal behavior, human sexuality, psi-phenomena, major systems of psychotherapy, human growth and development, psychobiology and physiology, social psychology, memory, stress, forensic and industrial psychology. Students will be guided towards an appreciation of the six major theoretical perspectives that psychology has to offer. As psychology is intended to describe, predict, understand, and to control behavior, students should emerge from the course with an increased degree of enlightened control over their lives.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.msun.edu

Phone Number:

(406) 265-3700

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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