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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Survey of current research problems; practices in personnel selection and training; management; consumer, marketing, and advertising psychology.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Basic concepts of psychological testing and assessment. Survey of the major methods of assessment and tests of general ability, aptitude, achievement, interest, and personality. Examination of the contribution of psychological tests to applied psychology and their role in contemporary society.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Overview of the Order Primates as a biological entity, with a focus on monkeys and apes. Methods for studying their behavior in captivity and in native habitats. Note: Course will include field trips to zoos and appropriate animal laboratories.
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4.00 Credits
6 hours (2, lecture; 4, lab), 4 credits. Theory and method of psychological experimentation and measurement as applied to the study of behavioral phenomena. Design and execution of selected experiments in such areas as learning, thinking, motivation, personality, and social behavior. PREREQ: PSY 226.
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4.00 Credits
6 hours (2, lecture; 4, lab), 4 credits. Continuation of PSY 305, including such areas as sensation and perception, with emphasis on independent research on selected topics. PREREQ: PSY 305.
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4.00 Credits
6 hours (2, lecture; 4, lab), 4 credits. Use of laboratory and field techniques in the investigation of social psychological topics, such as attitudes, conformity, social interaction, altruism, and ethics of research. Individual and group research projects in the laboratory and in the community, where possible. PREREQ: PSY 226 and 330.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Study of motives (hunger, sex, aggression, etc.) and emotions (anger, love, fear, etc.) as underlying causes of behavior.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. Survey of fundamental concepts, empirical findings, and theoretical issues in animal and human learning. Topics include conditioning, extinction, reinforcement, generalization, discrimination, problem solving, retention, and forgetting.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. A consideration of the manner in which humans process, code, and store information. Current ideas and research pertaining to selective attention, short- and long-term memory, consciousness, and the constructive nature of perception and thinking.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours, 3 credits. An introduction to the nervous system and its relation to the understanding of such psychological processes as sensation, perception, attention, learning, motivation, memory, arousal, sleep, and dreaming.
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