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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study-abroad experience that explores prominent European figures in the history of psychology within the context of the major historical currents and schools. Study of the cultural, philosophical, intellectual, and spiritual roots of psychological theory-especially in connection with our host countries. Site and museum visits, and encounters with local professional and academic psychologists.
Prerequisite:
PSY100; GES130 or GES244; junior or senior standing; permission of instructors; timely completion of application process.
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4.00 Credits
Behavior from primitive invertebrates to advanced mammals, highlighting trends in behavior systems. Natural setting studies in the ethology tradition, comparative psychology studies, and biosociological principles with their implications for human social systems. Prerequisite: One course in biology or PSY100. (Carries cross-credit in biological sciences.)
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4.00 Credits
How do biological, environmental, cognitive, emotional, and personal systems interact to initiate and direct human behavior? How do experimental psychologists study emotional and motivational systems? Topics covered include hunger and eating, love and sexual behavior, arousal and peak performance, aggression, emotional stress and health, negative and positive emotions, curiosity, creativity, and self-esteem.
Prerequisite:
PSY100; PSY230M.
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3.00 Credits
Topics of central importance within many world religions (e.g., wisdom, love) are examined through various psychological theories and empirical findings. Major emphasis on developing the capacity to understand religious behavior and experience from the psychological and religious perspectives studied in the course, regardless of the extent to which one agrees or disagrees with a particular viewpoint.
Prerequisite:
PSY100; [GES130; Contemporary Western Life and Thought (L) course; World Cultures (U) course] or [GES246; World Cultures (U) course].
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4.00 Credits
Development of exceptional people from a lifespan perspective. Cognitive, physical, emotional, and sociocultural variables relevant to mental retardation; giftedness; learning disabilities; physical, sensory, and communication disabilities; emotional disturbance; and multiple disabilities. Critical analysis of education and management programs. Literature review, research, and student contact with a number of exceptionalities.
Prerequisite:
EDU240, PSY203, PSY206, or PSY211; junior standing.
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4.00 Credits
Methods of assessing human behavior and the nature and signif?icance of individual differences. Includes basic psychometric theory; principles of test construction; and theory and utilization of current standardized tests of intelligence, achievement, and personality.
Prerequisite:
PSY100; PSY230M.
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3.00 Credits
Control and automation are fundamental aspects of human, animal, and machine behavior. These topics will be considered from philosophical and psychological perspectives and explored through robotics and other hands-on experimental labs, in order to develop both a practical and theoretical understanding of behavior.
Prerequisite:
Laboratory Science (D) course; Mathematics (M) course. (Carries cross-credit in computer science.)
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4.00 Credits
Physiological and neuroanatomical mechanisms underlying behavior; sensory mechanisms, wakefulness, and attention processes; and brain mechanisms of aggression, fear, pain, thirst, reproductive behavior, learning, and discrimination processes.
Prerequisite:
PSY100; Mathematics (M) course.
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4.00 Credits
Basic procedures of classical and operant conditioning, theories of learning, and applications of behavioral conditioning principles to selected problems in human learning. Includes laboratory experience.
Prerequisite:
PSY100; Mathematics (M) course.
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4.00 Credits
Psychological theory and research concerning thinking, memory, reasoning, language, and problem solving. Includes laboratory experience.
Prerequisite:
PSY100; PSY230M.
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