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3.00 Credits
The course examines how the thoughts, feelings, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of other people. Topics include: perceiving other people and events, attitude formation and change, social interactions and relationships, and helping and hurting others. Prerequisite: PSYC 200 or PSYC 210.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines theories, research, and issues relating to the psychology of women. Explores the ways that religion, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and other social constructs interact and operate at the individual, interpersonal, and cultural levels to modify women's experiences. Prerequisites: PSYC 200 or PSYC 210 and completion of sixty units.
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4.00 Credits
Animal learning from Thorndike to Skinner (1980s). The focus of study includes the basic principles of classical and operant conditioning, punishment, reinforcement, and stimulus control. Application to human learning is made. Prerequisites: PSYC 200 or PSYC 210, and completion of sixty units.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of thinking, conceptualization, attention, memory, problem solving, language and symbolic activity, and related mediational processes in the individual. Prerequisites: PSYC 200 or PSYC 210, and completion of 60 units.
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4.00 Credits
Addresses issues in comparative animal behavior, including varieties of behavior in different species. The determinants of species-specific behavior will be examined from multiple perspectives, including ecological, evolutionary, genetic, learning (e.g., classical and operant conditioning), and social influences. Current understandings of motivated behavior (e.g., aggression, mating) perception, and learning memory will be discussed in terms of these various perspectives. Students will gain laboratory experience by conducting experiments and exercises with animals which demonstrate species-specific behaviors. Prerequisites: PSYC 200 or PSYC 210; PSYC 250; and PSYC 310.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the study of sensation and perception from an historical perspective and from current paradigms. The course concentrates on sensory systems and their biological organization as well as traditional and contemporary questions about perception of sensory information. The student will gain laboratory experience by participating in sensory/perceptual experiments and demonstrations. Prerequisite: PSYC 200 or PSYC 210.
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4.00 Credits
This course includes a comprehensive study of the physiological and neurological correlates of behavior, including the nervous system (e.g., its structures and organization), sensation, perception, movement, physiological chemistry (e.g., hormones; neurotransmitters), sleep emotion, cognitive functions, and mental disorder. The students will gain laboratory experience by participating in the dissection of a preserved specimen and other activities and demonstrations. Prerequisites: PSYC 200 or PSYC 210, PSYC 250, PSYC 310, and completion of sixty units.
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4.00 Credits
Effects of psychotropic drugs on behavior, cognitive functioning, and emotion with an emphasis on both psychotherapeutic agents utilized in the treatment of biochemical abnormalities associated with various psychopathologies and drugs of abuse. Prerequisite: PSYC 200 or PSYC 210.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to the major approaches to counseling with a critical appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Attention given to the role of counseling in a wide variety of techniques and situations. Prerequisite: PSYC 200 or PSYC 210.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides a survey of current theories of family therapy and also includes a study of the philosophical, conceptual and theoretical background of family therapy. Theoretical formulations, definition of problem development, and treatment strategies of each theory are addressed. The course also includes practical demonstrations and videotapes illustrating these theoretical approaches. Assignments include examining the student's own family as a means of understanding theoretical concepts. Prerequisite: PSYC 200 or PSYC 210.
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