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3.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to basic theories, research methods, and research findings in child development. Addresses development in areas such as perception, cognition, language, personality, and social relationships. Examines development from conception through adolescence.
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3.00 Credits
In this course students explore the important theories, methods, and findings in the field of social psychological development, with emphasis on development from infancy through adolescence. Topics include development of aggression and prosocial behaviors, emotion, self, and temperament, and the influence of parenting/family, peers, television, and schools.
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3.00 Credits
Reviews theories and research on the psychological and biological changes of adolescence; changing relationships with parents; developing friendships and intimacy; changes in cognitive development, etc. Review of clinical disorders common in adolescence (depression, eating disorders, delinquency, substance abuse). Stresses societal-cultural influences on pubertal and adolescent development.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory course in descriptive and inferential statistics as applied to social and behavioral sciences. Logic of quantification. Concepts of variability, probability, significance. Understanding and application of commonly used statistical procedures. Lab to be arranged.
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0.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Experimental course addresses how we remember things and why we forget. Topics include amnesia, eyewitness memory, memory tricks, and aging, as well as some of the fundamental models of human memory. Approach is cognitive and neuropsychological.
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3.00 Credits
This class offers an integrative approach to the psychology of learning. We will discuss topics including non-associative learning, classical conditioning, and instrumental learning, looking at traditional behavioral animal studies and incorporating findings from neuroscience research. The clinical implications of learning theory and research for disorders such as schizophrenia, Parkinson¿s disease, and autism will be examined.
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3.00 Credits
This course integrates brain impairment and clinical implications of schizophrenia, depression, stress disorders, Parkinson¿s disease, and other disorders that impose a huge cost to society in terms of individual and family distress and clinical needs. Students will gain insight into recent advances in neuroscience that are relevant to neurological and psychiatric diseases. Key areas of study include behavior, cognition, development and motor functions of normal and abnormal brain function.
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the design, methodology, presentation, and ethics of psychological research. Topics include the measurement of behavior, hypothesis development and testing, the logic of different types of experimental and nonexperimental research designs, and evaluation of psychological research. Lab to be arranged. Prerequisite: 201.
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of research and theory of how we experience the objects and events in our environment through our senses. Topics include psychophysics, vision, audition, speech perception, and the chemical senses.
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