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  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Spring Semester Group therapy work; practice applying Adlerian and Gestalt theory to individual counseling; professional and ethical issues; field work. Written consent of the Instructor is required. Prerequisite: PC 411.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Laboratory course in human and animal learning. Each student is expected to explore operant shaping, extinction rates, multiple scheduling, chaining, discrimination, and temporal factors in learning. Written consent of the Instructor is required. Prerequisite: PC 101.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Structure and function of nerve cells and the nervous system. Research methods in biopsychology, effects of brain damage, physiological principles underlying sleep, eating, abnormal behavior, drug effects, and memory. Prerequisite: PC 101.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Examination of the principles of cognition. Among the topics discussed are perception, attention, short-term memory, long-term memory, imagery, language, problem solving, reasoning, and judgment and decision making. Includes a laboratory component which gives students hands-on experience with cognitive phenomena discussed in class. Prerequisite: PC 101.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Spring Semester Overview of the impact of Psychology on the legal system. Topics covered include how psychological research has influenced court decisions, an examination of the insanity defense, how competency to stand trial is determined, what psychological processes are involved in jury selection and jury decision making, the accuracy of eyewitness identification, and how children are viewed in the legal system. Prerequisite: PC 101.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters As a Capstone course, students will review and synthesize major empirical/theoretical areas of psychology, including abnormal, personality, learning, cognition, social, developmental, statistics and physiological. Prerequisites: PC 261, PC 271, Senior Standing in Psychology, Instructor permission required.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Capstone course examining and evaluating psychological principles and their application in today's society. Topics include effective studying; breaking bad habits; influencing others and improving personal relationships; dealing with self-defeating behaviors such as shyness, anger and anxiety; raising children; and improving motivation. Prerequisites: PC 261, PC 271, Senior Standing in Psychology.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 Capstone course that will demonstrate how a single topic can be studied by the many different areas of psychology. Theories of sleep and dreaming will be examined from biological, developmental, personality, learning, cognitive, abnormal and social perspectives. Prerequisites: PC 261, PC 271, Senior Standing, Instructor permission.
  • 6.00 Credits

    Three or Six Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Each student is expected to carry out a supervised assignment in a professional setting with emphasis placed on hospitals, schools, clinics, courts, and personnel departments in the local area. Registration must be approved by the Department Chairperson, by the faculty member supervising the project, and by the institution or agency conducting the program. Prerequisite for Industrial/Organizational Internships: PC 309. Prerequisites for Counseling Internships: Two of the following - PC 201, PC 203, PC 205, PC 207.
  • 6.00 Credits

    Three or Six Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Each student is expected to carry out a supervised assignment in a professional setting with emphasis placed on hospitals, schools, clinics, courts, and personnel departments in the local area. Registration must be approved by the Department Chairperson, by the faculty member supervising the project, and by the institution or agency conducting the program. Prerequisite for Industrial/Organizational Internships: PC 309. Prerequisites for Counseling Internships: Two of the following - PC 201, PC 203, PC 205, PC 207.
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