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3.00 Credits
The course encompasses a developmental psychology approach to the growth of the individual from birth to old age, tracing motor, perceptual, language, cognitive, and emotional growth and emphasizing normal development.Students who have taken PY 263 or PY 264 may not take this course. Designated sections meet the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course gives students a basic knowledge of the most important theories and research on groups.The course combines sociological and psychological perspectives to give a more integrated picture of the way groups function.Students make use of experiential as well as classroom methods of learning.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews selected issues in the characteristics and dynamics of contemporary organizations, and examines, in the context of such issues, contemporary applications and emerging needs for approaches, constructs, research, and methods in industrial/organizational psychology.The course examines the roles and contributions in this field in the context of issues and changes in workforce demographics, diversity, and motivations; regulatory and litigating environments; organizational ethics; organizational values and cultures; management and leadership; globalization; international alliances and competition; environmentalism and consumerism; and technological change.The course is open to students in any discipline related to the study of organizations in the world of work.(Prerequisite: PY 132) Three credits.
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4.00 Credits
This introductory course in statistical methodology and analysis includes descriptive statistics such as frequency distributions, central tendency, variability, and correlation as well as an introduction to probability, sampling theory, and tests of significance including the t-test, chi-squared, ANOVA, and non-parametric statistics.This course is open to majors in the behavioral, biological, and physical sciences.The lab complements the course by giving students supervised computation and problem-solving exercises using calculators and computers.Note: this course does not fulfill any core requirements.Four credits.
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3.00 Credits
Building on PY 203 Statistics, this course teaches students to read, evaluate, design, conduct, and report psychological research.The course emphasizes critical thinking and effective oral and written communication.Students work through several different research projects.(Prerequisites: PY 101, PY 203) Four credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the major areas of concern in social psychology, emphasizing current issues and research in the fields of social influence and conformity, human aggression, prejudice, interpersonal attraction, propaganda, and persuasion.Students who have taken PY 148 may not take this course.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
How do we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell What about individual differences This course deals with basic sensory mechanisms and with perceptual processing.Students examine color, depth, pattern, and motion perception and complete an integrative final project.Students may do experiential learning to enrich their understanding of individual differences in sensation and perception.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This advanced course in abnormal behavior offers an in-depth analysis of current research and theories of psychopathology.Building upon the student's knowledge of developmental psychology, the course examines the biological and psychological antecedents of abnormal behavior.The course emphasizes oral and written analysis.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the principles of psychological test construction, administration and interpretation, and reviews the roles that these tests have in a broad clinical assessment and research.Specific evaluation of test reliability and validity are applied to test construction and to various published tests of intelligence, achievement, personality, and neuropsychological functioning.(Prerequisite: PY 101, PY 203/BI 203) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Understanding the brain is one of the last and most challenging frontiers of science.Our brain functioning determines what we see, hear, know, think, or feel.Starting with the molecular and cellular machinery of neurons and the anatomy of the nervous system, the course proceeds through the neural basis of sensation, perception, memory, emotion, language, sexual behavior, drug addiction, depression, schizophrenia, etc.The enormous strides made by neuroscience in the last several decades show every sign of continuing and increasing; this course provides the foundation upon which a thorough understanding of brain-behavior relationships can be built.Note: This course can be used by non-psychology majors to fulfill one of the core natural science requirements.Three credits.
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