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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Health psychology involves the discipline and principles of psychology and human behavior in understanding how the mind and body interact in health and disease. Topics include health promotion and primary prevention of illness, health enhancing and health damaging behaviors, psychosomatic illness, stress and coping, pain management, and a variety of specific behavior-related medical illnesses (e.g., heart disease, eating disorders, cancer, and AIDS). Prerequisites: PSYC 1, 2, 40, and 43.
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5.00 Credits
Health psychology involves the discipline and principles of psychology and human behavior in understanding how the mind and body interact in health and disease. Topics include health promotion and primary prevention of illness, health enhancing and health damaging behaviors, psychosomatic illness, stress and coping, pain management, and a variety of specific behavior-related medical illnesses (e.g., heart disease, eating disorders, cancer, and AIDS). Prerequisites: PSYC 1, 2, 40, and 43.
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5.00 Credits
A theoretical and empirical investigation of human perceptual processes, with an emphasis on visual perception. Topics include psychophysiology of vision; perceiving visual space (shape, contrast, orientation, distance, depth, motion); color perception; perceptual illusions; imagining vs. perceiving; effects of knowledge on perception; perception in novel environments. Prerequisites: PSYC 1, 2, 40, and 43.
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5.00 Credits
The scientific investigation of learning and behavior. Both experimental and theoretical developments are considered, as well as the application of the principles of learning. Topics include Pavlovian and operant conditioning, stimulus control, schedules of reinforcement, choice, and punishment. Prerequisites: PSYC 1, 2, 40, and 43.
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5.00 Credits
A theoretical, empirical, and experiential investigation of human information processing. Topics include the history of the discipline and the following research areas: pattern perception, attention, working memory, long-term memory, memory distortions, imagery, language processes, and problem solving. Emphasis on contemporary theory and research, including recent developments in neurocognition. Prerequisites: PSYC 1, 2, 40, and 43 (5 units)
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5.00 Credits
Seminar exploring theories and research in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Students will read, discuss, and critically analyze contemporary theories and research in these areas. Topics emphasized will include consciousness, attention, memory, metacognition, and the relationship between imagery and perception. Meets the Psychology Advanced Topics Requirement. Prerequisites: Senior standing, PSYC 120 or PSYC 131 or PSYC 166 and all lower division Psychology requirements.
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5.00 Credits
The study of individual differences and personality processes. Discussion of major theories of personality. Presentation of current research topics in personality and methods for assessing individual differences and other personality constructs. Prerequisites: PSYC 1, 2, 40, and 43.
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5.00 Credits
This course is an upper division survey of child development including infancy, early childhood, middle childhood and a brief introduction to adolescent issues. Major developmental theories and methods of studying development are introduced. Principle findings regarding social-emotional, cognitive, and physical development in the different stages of childhood are included as well as findings about the impact on development of the societal context in which development occurs. Prerequisite is PSYC 1 or 2. This course is open to majors in other fields who are required to or wish to study child development.
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4.00 Credits
The scientific study of behavior. Topics include human development, personality, abnormal psychology, clinical intervention, and social psychology. Other topics may include psychological assessment, cross-cultural psychology, and psychological adjustment.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to statistical methods used in psychological research.
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