|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
Addresses the theoretical concepts, design, execution, analysis, and communication of research in psychology. Provides students with various methods to acquire hands-on experience performing a research project of their own creation. Students move systematically through the research process, from refining their original idea in the context of existing literature to interpreting and communicating their results.
-
4.00 Credits
Offers students the opportunity to assess the generality, specificity, and robustness of learning and motivational principles, through field experiments with free-ranging feral animals. Students design and conduct experiments and write reports on operant and Pavlovian conditioning, motivation, and related topics. Focuses on the theoretical and clinical implications of experimental findings. This course does not use laboratory animals.
-
4.00 Credits
Gives students the opportunity to gain proficiency, through direct experience, in lab analysis of behavior and in evaluating common generalizations about human behavior. Students design and perform experiments in animal and human learning, memory, decision processes, concept formation, and other topics of individual interest.
-
4.00 Credits
Introduces the methods of research in psychobiology. Students work in small groups, conducting three to four hands-on laboratory exercises under supervised conditions. Students read selections of the relevant scientific literature, analyze the collected data, and write experimental reports.
-
4.00 Credits
Offers students the opportunity to examine key concepts and principles in comparative psychology by conducting field studies at a local zoological park. On-site research is integrated with discussions and readings that identify similarities and differences in the ways that individuals and species adapt behaviorally to their ecological conditions. Topics include adaptive specializations in learning and intelligent behaviors; the advantage of living in a social group; animal communication; cooperation and aggression; and the adaptive roles of males and females. Provides students with some of the basic skills of animal behavior research using a variety of observation tools and strategies. Collecting and analyzing data as well as writing scientific reports on the research projects are important evaluative components of the course.
-
4.00 Credits
Provides students the opportunity to acquire firsthand experience in conducting research on issues in the psychology of language. Focuses on experiments and their implications for broader issues of language processing. Involves students in all aspects of each experiment including collecting and analyzing data and preparing lab reports.
-
4.00 Credits
Provides students the opportunity to acquire firsthand experience in conducting research on issues in human cognition. Focuses on experiments and their implications for broader issues of cognitive functioning. Involves students in all aspects of each experiment including collecting and analyzing data and preparing lab reports.
-
4.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to the methods of social-psychological research. Assists students in developing the ability to read published social research with a critical eye, to pose questions in a testable manner, to apply experimental methods to social research, and to express themselves in APA journal style.
-
4.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to the methods and areas of personality research. Discusses problems of measurement, control, and interpretation. Critically examines representative published experiments. Students design, collect data for, assess, and write up several experiments.
-
4.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to community psychologists, who study people in their social contexts, emphasizing the mutual influence that individuals and communities have upon each other. Rather than attempt to understand and treat problems at the individual level, research in community psychology aims to offer practical solutions to social problems, with a focus on prevention. Students become familiar with some of the research methods employed by psychologists and other scientists working in this area. Students also become familiar with a particular community, which they utilize for data collection. Students develop survey instruments/interview schedules, collect data, and analyze and interpret the findings with a qualitative design if possible. Fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences experiential education requirement for psychology majors.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|