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3.00 Credits
3 credits Non-majors only. Cannot be used for credit in the major. This course explores human development as both a process of growth (through aging and experiencing) and a series of normative stages. An emphasis on applications of theory and research to the healthcare setting will be given.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: PIA 101. This course studies child development from conception to adolescence. Lectures and readings focus on historical and cultural perspectives on childhood, genetics, and environmental health; the evolution-based approach to development; research on infant perception and language development; social development; and abnormal development. Major theorists such as Freud, Kohlberg, and Piaget are discussed with an emphasis on their theories of cognitive and personality development.
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3.00 Credits
3 creditsPrerequisite: PIA 101. An extension of the study of the life cycle from middle childhood through late adolescence. This course surveys developmental issues in areas of physiological, cognitive, and socio-emotional behavior of adolescents as well as some societal problems involving adolescents.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisite: PIA 101. Introduction to the basic concepts and techniques of statistics as applied to psychology. Fundamental principles and procedures of descriptive and inferential statistics, including simple analysis of variance, are presented.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: PIA 101. An intermediate course in behavioral analysis. Students are exposed to principles of behavior analysis derived from the laboratory work of Thorndike and Pavlov through the work of contemporary behaviorists. Topics include operant behavior, reflective behavior, schedules of reinforcement stimulus control, associative principles, species comparisons, and aversive control. Results from both human and animal investigations will be included and implications for human applications will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: PIA 101 An historical and intellectual survey of psychoanalytic theories and methods, beginning with Freud’s seminal contributions and continuing through contemporary psychoanalytic models. The course will introduce students to psychoanalytic methods such as dream analysis, the therapeutic model of psychoanalysis, and will also attempt to place the field within a broader intellectual and cultural context.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits Prerequisite: PIA 137. An application of research methods in the exploration of traditional experimental topics. A major objective is the acquisition of skills in the design, execution, analysis, and reporting of experiments with human subjects. This course is the summer school offering of a basic course in human experimental psychology.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: PIA 101. Neuropsychology examines and describes what is known about how the brain mediates different kinds of behavioral functions and dysfunctions. It surveys the research findings upon which conclusions about brain-behavior relations are drawn, and outlines the nature of response mechanisms and the internal environment.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: PIA 101. A survey of the interrelationships between human behavior and the built and natural environment. Topics include the ways people perceive and react to their physical surroundings; the effects of noise, air pollution, and other stressors on behavior and emotion; people’s use of space, the psychological consequences of crowding; methods of changing human behavior so as to preserve the natural environment; and ways in which the environment might be molded to “fit” behavior such as through the appropriate design of buildings, parks, and cities PIA 262 Social Psychology 3 credits Prerequisite: PIA 101. Analysis of the processes of social interaction and their effects upon the behavior and attitudes of individuals and groups. Dynamics of groups, social roles, communication, and mass behavior are the focus of consideration. Related experimental and field studies are discussed.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Prerequisite: PIA 101. Major emphasis is placed on topics in visual perception including form and color vision, depth perception, illusions and after-effects, and perceptual development. In addition, the application of principles in perception to advertising, design, education, and aesthetics will be covered. This course may be useful also to majors in education, business, physical education, and art.
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