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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys the psychological fundamentals underlying performance in work settings. Topics include psychological testing; performance evaluation; training, motivating, and leading employees; and the social psychology of organizations. Emphasizes ethical and affirmative action issues.
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Develops skills in conceptualization and discourse on current topics in social and personality psychology. Uses discussion, readings, and topical papers to promote critical thinking in social/personality psychology.
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4.00 Credits
Examines interactions between drugs, brain, and behavior. Focuses on such topics as synaptic transmission, behavioral functions of specific neurotransmitter systems, pharmacological treatment of mental and neurological disorders, and drug abuse.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the behavior of neurological patients and normal patients to develop an understanding of how the human brain works to produce higher mental functions. Topics include discussions of brain scans, human neuroanatomy, cerebral lateralization, language, memory, neurological disorders, and neural plasticity and recovery of function.
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Explores the neurobiological, genetic, and neurochemical etiology of mental illness as described and categorized according to the DSM IV. In the class we discuss how psychology, neuroscience, pharmacology, and medicine come together to manage mental illness. For each specific mental illness covered we investigate how changes in physiology and biology might manifest in the aberrant behaviors that define psychopathology. Lastly, we examine how pharmacology is often used to treat these various mental illnesses and how genetic expression is involved in predisposing some people to these disorders while sparing others.
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4.00 Credits
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
Focuses on language behavior from a neuropsychological viewpoint. Examines models of how the brain controls the production and comprehension of language. Considers localization of cerebral functions and hemispheric lateralization; experimental and clinical evidence for functional models; aphasia, dyslexia, and other language pathologies; and evidence from neuroimaging studies.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an overview of issues in the psychology of reading. Topics include the nature of the reading process as a perceptual and cognitive activity, eye movement patterns in reading, stages of reading development, and dyslexia. Examines current theories of reading and text comprehension.
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4.00 Credits
Explores cognitive processes in infancy and childhood, how those processes change with age, and theoretical explanations for those changes. Topics may include understanding the physical world, memory, categorization, reasoning, problem solving, social cognition, language and conceptual development, and individual and/or group differences in cognitive development. Emphasis may vary by semester.
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