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3.00 Credits
The course is designed to introduce students to concepts, principles, and theories of behavior in the work setting with topics focusing on personnel selection, job training and evaluation, individual and group dynamics, stress in the workplace, and the work environment. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course to teach interviewing skills. Students will learn the basic elements of good communication, practice good listening skills, and learn to form quality interview questions. A component of the course will be the cultural context of communication. Both theoretical and applied aspects will covered as they relate to work in human service agencies. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
Providing counseling and therapy services is a major role for future mental health and public service professions. This course examines approaches to counseling and psychotherapy and various roles counselors and therapists play in treatment. Topics will include an overview in major theories of counseling and psychotherapy that are commonly used in professional practice, how these approaches attempt to affect change, group therapy, career counseling and therapeutic interventions. Target populations will include adults children, families, couples and the elderly. Law and ethics in counseling and therapy and nontraditional/alternative methods of therapy will also be addressed. Special topics will include counseling with multicultural and diverse populations. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
The relationship between the brain and the behaviors it supports in humans and animals will be explored. The anatomy, physiology, and chemistry of the nervous system are reviewed, and the scientific analysis of the relations of these biological processes to psychological phenomena is presented. Topics will include pyschopharmacology, sensory st stems, movement, sleep , reproduction ingestion, communication, learning and neurological disorders.. Most presentations will follow a structure-function approach. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
The major sensory input systems including vision, hearing, olfcaction, taste, and touch will be explored from the sensory receptors through pathways to the brain. Psychophysical and other common sensory and perceptual experiences will be discussed. The integration of sensory imput to perceptual experiences will be discussed. Evolutionary history and functional adaptations will be explored. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the causes of human and animal behavior. It includes physiological, cognitive, social, behavioral and personality perspectives on the subject. An effort is made to integrate the widely varying theories and perspectives to assist students in developing and understanding of why the causes of behavior are so complex. Neuroscience, personality, learning, and developmental issues are equally balanced in the course. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
This course will investigate the issues and problems of children and adolescent psychology. The biological, psychological, and behavioral patterns and changes that occur from birth through adolescence will be summarized from a developmental perspective. The network of intervention services for children and adolescents in crisis will also be examined. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
The provision of direct and indirect services is a major role for psychology, counseling and other human service professional. This course examines the professional legal and ethical issues related to the professional application of psychology. This course will include an overview of pertinent legal statutes and professional ethical codes and will provide a basic foundation for decision making and problem solving that mental health professionals engage in . Topics will include informed consent, confidentiality, duty to warn/ report, and relationships with clients. Advanced topics will include issues surrounding multi-cultural and diverse populations., special need clients and children. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
Topics essential to understanding the mental processes that explain how we acquire store retrieve compare, represent manipulate and communicate information will be covered. Major theories, methods, and paradigms, in cognitive psychology are studied as well as research findings and applications to everyday life. Topics include attention and consciousnesses, perception, memory, knowledge representation, language, problem solving and creativity, decision making and reasoning, and human and artificial intelligence. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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3.00 Credits
Cognitive processes underlying the perception of risk, problem solving, judgement, and decision making will be examined. Cognitive, social-cognitive, neuroscience, and developmental perspectives to risk assessment and decision-making will be explored. Topics covered include algorithms, heuristics, biases, quantitative literacy, brain substrates, risky behavior and delinquency, game theory, and behavioral economics. Lecture/Lab Hours: Three hours per week.
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