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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
This course provides experience with the tools, methods and findings of classic and contemporary experimental psychology, offered as the gateway to majoring in the field. Topics covered include logical reasoning, statistical inference, research ethics, experimenter effects and report writing. Students design, conduct and analyze the results of an experiment. For psychology majors only. Prerequisite: PS 206 or MA 275; Every Year, Fall and Spring
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0.00 Credits
Lab to accompany PS 307. Every Year, Fall and Spring
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4.00 Credits
This course offers a critique of the experimental paradigm; experience with non-experimental methods such as interviewing, observation, content analysis; examination of selected contemporary research employing these methods. Students do a major piece of psychological research, including statistical analysis. For psychology majors only. Prerequisite: PS 307; Every Year, Fall and Spring
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0.00 Credits
Lab to accompany PS 308. Every Year, Fall and Spring
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3.00 Credits
Current psychological theories are surveyed as related to their historical evolution. Development of psychology is linked to histories of philosophy and of science. Prerequisite: PS 307; Every Year, Fall and Spring
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3.00 Credits
This course covers principles of test construction, standardization and validation; survey of commonly used measures of personality, psychopathology, aptitudes, interests and achievement, particular emphasis on the relationship between the testing movement and the social, political and economic context in which it is embedded. Prerequisite: PS 206; Every Year, Fall
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3.00 Credits
The application and contribution of psychological research and practice to the promotion and maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of illness are explored. Topics covered include stress and illness, psychological aspects of pain, management of chronic and terminal illness, obesity, smoking and other addictive behaviors, sleep disturbances, personality factors in illness and patient-practitioner interaction. Prerequisite: one course from PS level 200; Every Year, Fall
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the motivated behavior of hunger and eating. The questions of arousal, direction and persistence of behavior are viewed from the perspectives of psychology, biology, anthropology and economics. Throughout each section, participants explore three questions: 1) What is the relative contribution of heredity and environment on the behavior? 2) How much can be generalized about the behavior of one species or one culture to the behavior and culture of another? 3) Which level of analysis gives the most useful information about a particular behavior? Prerequisite: one course from PS level 200; Every Other Year, Spring
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1.00 Credits
Lab to accompany PS 330. Every Other Year, Spring
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3.00 Credits
The ways in which psychology and literature depict the female experience are studied. Using readings in both traditional and feminist psychological and literary theory, the course analyzes literary texts by and about women. Topics include: gender and genre, female identity formation and the minority experience. Prerequisites: PS 101; one course from EN level 200; Every Other Year, Fall
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