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1.00 Credits
Educates students about the structure and function of a research university, introduces them to the academic rules and regulations of the University of Miami and the Department of Psychology, enables them to think critically about their own graduation plan, and prepares them to enter the professional world.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of modern scientific psychology. Topics include learning, memory, perception, cognition, personality, motivation, emotion, development, abnormal psychology, and social psychology. Participation in a small number of experiments is required to ensure that students become acquainted first hand with the experimental laboratory methods used in Psychology. Students may choose to satisfy this requirement by writing a small number of methodology papers instead.
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1.00 Credits
PSY 120 deals with mental processes and behavior viewed from a biological perspective. Topics include biological factors underlying neural and hormonal communication and control, development and plasticity, sensation and perception, homeostasis and motivational states (e.g., hunger), consciousness, sleep, and other states, emotion and stress, learning and memory, and psychological disorders and treatment.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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1.00 Credits
Critical discussion of research reports in psychology.
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3.00 Credits
The major theories, methods and research findings in social psychology. Attitude formation and change, person perception, interpersonal attraction, aggression, group structure, leadership, conformity and mass phenomena. Emphasizes the individual as the basic unit of analysis (compare SOC 302).
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3.00 Credits
Survey of significant aspects of growth and development throughout the lifespan. Emphasis placed on childhood and adolescence.
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4.00 Credits
Application of descriptive and inferential statistics to behavioral data. Principles and methods of summarizing data. Correlation and regression. Basic concepts of probability, hypothesis testing, and decision making. Tests of significance, confidence intervals, and analysis of variance. Examples and problems from biology, education, medicine, nursing, psychology, sociology.
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1.00 Credits
Educates students about the structure and function of a research university, introduces them to the academic rules and regulations of the University of Miami and the Department of Psychology, enables them to think critically about their own graduation plan, integrates them into the social atmosphere of the University, and prepares them to enter the professional world.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of theory and research on human information processing and cognitive processes.
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