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4.00 Credits
Examines the messages we send by posture, facial expression, voice quality, gestures, touch, gaze, and interpersonal distance. Examines origins and consequences of these behaviors as well as differences related to culture, personality, power, gender, and age.
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Offers a study of successful projects that have provided effective remediation and rehabilitation in institutions for the mentally ill, the mentally retarded, and the developing human (schools).
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Introduces the etiology, development, and diagnosis of psychopathology. Lectures, discussions, readings, and assignments focus on various theoretical perspectives on psychopathology. Addresses individual, interpersonal, contextual, and cultural factors contributing to the development of psychopathology. Highlights and discusses specific psychological disorders. Students participate in a "service-learning track." Students are placed in a facility for treating emotionally disturbed children or adolescents, and/or mentally ill adults. Students spend at least three hours each week participating in the milieu and/or treatment hospital of these clients/patients, working under the supervision of a volunteer coordinator and instructor. Weekly discussion groups help students process and learn from their experiences. Required papers focus on integrating practical (service-learning) experiences and assigned readings. Fulfills the CAS experiential education requirement for psychology majors.
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4.00 Credits
Examines maladaptive aggression and antisocial behavior in children and adolescents. Explores the origins, development, outcomes, and treatment of what appears to be a growing epidemic among today's youth. Topics include the types and prevalence of aggressive and antisocial behavior; the interplay among psychiatric, psychosocial, and psychobiologic processes in etiology; known risk and protective factors; gender variables; and why and how some children "grow out of" aggressive tendencies. Also addresses current approaches to clinical assessment and diagnosis as well as the evidence for widely used psychosocial and pharmacological interventions
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with PSY U516. Offers students the opportunity to investigate and identify the reasons for the increasing incidence of maladaptive eating behaviors in college populations. Students focus on a specific area of interest including sociocultural, cross-cultural, developmental, and gender factors involved in unhealthy dieting and exercise patterns in college students. Students survey the clinical literature to evaluate current models of intervention and prevention of eating disorders on campus, as well as school policies and strategies to cope with this growing health problem. Introduces participants to such interventions as peer counseling, in-service training to campus residential, athletic, and social organizations, community outreach, as well as development of a referral and resource center.
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4.00 Credits
Offers a systematic study of the normal personality and its development. Focuses on behavioral, dynamic, social, and cognitive determinants, assessment of personality, and current research topics; surveys the major theories of personality.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an introductory survey of social psychology. Topics include aggression, attribution, attitude formation; and change, attraction, gender and culture, conformity, impression formation, and group processes.
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4.00 Credits
Examines change throughout the life span in social relationships, emotional functioning, language, cognition, and other psychological domains, with emphasis on infancy through adolescence. Introduces major theories of development. Stresses the interaction of social and cognitive factors in development, and the interaction of the developing person with the environment. Also explores individual and cross-cultural differences in patterns of development, and research issues in developmental psychology.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys patterns of psychological abnormality. Addresses diagnosis, theoretical perspectives, anxiety, and defense mechanisms. Examines the symptomatology, etiology, and treatment of a number of disorders including anxiety, dissociative, somatoform, affective (depression, mania), and schizophrenic disorders.
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4.00 Credits
Offers an introduction to the basic learning and motivational principles that permit humans and animals to adapt effectively to a changing environment. Emphasizes research and theories of operant and Pavlovian conditioning, with discussions of discriminations and generalization, avoidance and punishment, acquired motivational states (for example, addiction), concept formation, biological constraints on learning and behavior, animal cognition, and other related topics. Relates learning and motivational principles to the understanding and treatment of behavioral, affective, cognitive, and motivational disorders.
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