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3.00 Credits
The individual's behavior and cognition in the social setting. Social psychology includes the processes of interaction, enculturation, prejudice, attitudes, and a psychological analysis of social institutions such as church, family and school. Prerequisite: PSYC 0101. PSYCHOLOGY 179
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the terminology, concepts, and methods in the study of learning. An examination of principles in terms of early and contemporary inquiries and experiments. The focus is on classical and instrumental conditioning, generalization, and discrimination processes. For students who major or concentrate in psychology. Prerequisites: PSYC 0101 and PSYC 0105.
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3.00 Credits
The application of statistical methods to current research problems in psychology. The selection of procedures appropriate to problems, performance of the procedures, interpretation of outcomes, data tabulation and reduction, measures of central tendency and variability, correlation and prediction, tests of significance, t-test, chi square and analyses of variance. Prerequisite: PSYC 0101 and PSYC 0105.
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This course will introduce the student to the psychological specialty area of health psychology, a field of psychology targeting the improvement and maintenance of physical health, as well as the prevention of health difficulties. The student will understand the associative, multidirectional links between physiological systems, cognition, behavior, and social environment. Attention is given to applied psychological techniques for health improvement, maintenance, and prevention. Theoretical models of health behavior are used to initiate health behavior change. Prerequisite: PSYC 0101
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3.00 Credits
presentation of the physiological mechanisms of behavior with application to both normal and abnormal human behavior. Includes elementary neuroanatomy and discussion of ethical issues of the discipline. Prerequisites: PSYC 0101 and PSYC 0105.
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A study of the similarities and differences in the behavior of animals, ranging from the unicellular to non-human primates. The course will stress comparative learning, but aspects of such topics as instinctive behavior, psychophysiology, and social behavior will also be discussed. Psychology majors only. Prerequisites: PSYC 0101 and PSYC 0105.
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3.00 Credits
Aim is to familiarize the student with the antecedents of modern psychology, the rise of experimental psychology as a science, the British, German, and American schools of psychology, and contemporary psychological systems. Several lectures cover the philosophical foundations of experimental psychology, and the philosophy of theory construction. Prerequisites: PSYC 0101, PSYC 0201, and PSYC 0306 strongly suggested.
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An overview of human sexuality from the perspectives of physiological, developmental, social, and clinical psychology. Specific topics include theory and research methodology, sexual arousal and behavior, contraception, sexual orientation, variations in sexual behavior, sexual coercion, and sexual dysfunction and sex therapy. Emphasis is placed on the psychological sequelae of these topics rather than their biological, medical, sociological, or ethical aspects. Prerequisite: PSYC 0101.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of the basic techniques derived from operant and respondent conditioning used to bring about behavioral change. Topics include the several categories of reinforcement, schedules, shaping, generalization, stimulus discrimination, and punishment as well as methods of data collection. Prerequisite: PSYC 0101.
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3.00 Credits
The major focus is on the nature of interpersonal relationships and how communication influences the formation, destruction and improvement of our relationships. We will bring together the thinking of major theorists and research findings in many areas dealing with interpersonal relations and communications. Prerequisite: PSYC 0101.
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