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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Provides students with a set of applied tools for use in the practice of behavioral medicine/health psychology, including: assessment and treatment of risky health behaviors, such as use of tobacco; consult-liaison skills; relaxation training; preparation of notes for medical settings; symptom management; motivational interviewing; brief diagnostic assessments; determination of capacity; and time-limited psychotherapy.
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2.00 Credits
Introduces students to the fundamental requirements and preparation to perform competently in the legal system. Emphasizes training and preparation required for practice as a forensic psychologist. Emphasizes both a clinical and biosocial psychological view point. Attention given to cultural, diversity, and ethical issues.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an overview of the foundational and philosophical distinctions between psychological and legal knowledge, their underlying assumptions, and divergent world views. Gives attention to how each investigates identical situations and arrives at opposite conclusions. Emphasizes the psychological and legal intersections relative to criminal behavior, mental health issues, and psychopathy. Students systematically study the complexity of psychological and legal interactions through case studies.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys the major theories, methods, and applications in the psychology of learning. Includes classical, operant, and cognitive aspects, with emphasis on contemporary issues in research and applications as well as laboratory training with animals.
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4.00 Credits
Reviews the major theories, methods, and findings in perception, cognition, and memory, including an introduction to contemporary cognitive science. Applications to the understanding of normal as well as abnormal behavior and psychological interventions.
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2.00 Credits
Provides a brief review of disease types commonly seen in primary care. with an emphasis on presentation of somatic conditions. Additional topics include clinical interventions in the primary care setting, introduction to medical terminology and shorthand in primary care, interpreting common laboratory values, consultation/liaison services, physician perspectives of psychological needs of patients, and effective collaboration between physician and psychologist.
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2.00 Credits
Covers the use of assessment instruments for research and clinical applications. Topics include behavioral medicine interviewing, the administration and interpretation of standardized instruments such as the Million Behavioral Health Inventory, quality-of-life assessment, and integrated report writing for medical settings.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys the major phenomena, anatomy, mechanisms, and principles of sensation and perception. Topics covered include: the history of the study of perception and psychophysics in psychology, with specific focus on each of the sensory systems-- vision, audition, chemical senses, skin senses, motor senses, and balance. Emphasizes the cognitive neuroscience of sensation and perception, complemented by consideration of the behavioral and phenomenological characteristics of the systems.
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4.00 Credits
Basic course in psychobiology. Neuroanatomy, the physiology of the neuron, and neural communication. Includes consideration of structure and function of visual, auditory, and somesthetic sensation and perception. Concludes with coverage of the structure and function of motor systems. Considers visuospatial, visuoperceptual, and visuoconstructive disorders; and apraxia.
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4.00 Credits
Builds on the foundations of psychobiology to examine the neurophysiological bases of molar behaviors, including consideration of sleep and biological rhythms; language; learning and memory; motivated behaviors (e.g., aggression, hunger, thirst, sex); emotion; and psychological dysfunction (e.g., schizophrenia, anxiety disorders). Prerequisite: PSYC 551; or consent of the instructor.
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