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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize Criminal Justice, Human Services, Psychology majors, and potential graduate school students with the development of data gathering techniques including questionnaire construction, sampling procedures, secondary data analysis, and techniques of data processing. Students will acquire the skills necessary to conduct social science research, and the ability to prepare a formal research report. This course is offered every semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to group processes utilizing current theory, research, and applications. It will focus on the effects of this specific type of social interaction on the affective, behavioral, and cognitive responses of the individual. Processes within the group (e.g., norms, roles) and pressures from external sources (e.g., politics, economic climates) will be considered with the goal of applying this knowledge in social, work, family and organizational group activities.
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3.00 Credits
The goal of the course is to introduce students to the major theories and current areas of research in Social Psychology. The course includes topics which examine human behavior in social relationships such as helping, attraction and love, aggression, prejudice and discrimination. Students will gain insight into their own and others’ behavior in day-to-day interactions. Topics are particularly applicable to business, human service, and criminal justice majors.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the cognitive processes involved in attention, recognition, memory, knowledge, language, reasoning and problem solving. These concepts are approached in terms of an information processing model, considering the input (stimulus), processing (mental activity), and output (behavior). The neural basis of cognitive functions will also be considered in regard to the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. This course is offered in rotation with PSY 322 and PSY 342
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3.00 Credits
Sports Psychology is the study of psychological and mental processes that influence and are influenced by participation in sports and exercise and varying performance levels in sports and exercise. This subfield also studies the psychological aspects of health, sports, lifestyles and exercise. This course is designated as upper level as students will be expected to have the skills to conduct research using primary sources, analyze the research and discuss applications of the research findings.
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3.00 Credits
Personality psychology is concerned with the differences among and between normal people. It asks what are the sources of the consistent behavior patterns that distinguish each of us as individuals, unique from everyone else, and of the common human nature we all share. This course examines six domains or perspectives in personality psychology: dispositional, biological, intrapsychic, cognitive/experiential, social and cultural, and adjustment. Each perspective is examined for the particular focus it provides in explaining individual differences in behavior by examining key theories and representative research. This course is offered in rotation with PSY 304 and PSY 424
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to provide students with a stronger understanding of the scope and seriousness of all forms of family violence and abuse, and the difficulties faced by criminal justice and human service agencies. Historical, social, political, psychological, and legal aspects of family violence will be considered, and much time will be devoted to examining underlying causes. This course will also evaluate some of the nonviolent harm done by families to their members, including the contributions made by family structure and functioning to problems such as delinquency or adult criminality, depression, and suicide.
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3.00 Credits
From the perspective of human services, this course offers an introduction to the dynamics of family violence with an emphasis on treatment and intervention strategies. Students will examine types of family violence across the life span, identification and reporting procedures, controversial issues of relevance to the field of family violence, the impact of substance abuse/misuse on family functioning and violent patterns of behavior, and current and innovative approaches to treatment and prevention.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the range of topics relevant to the experience of loss and grief that is part of death. Subject matter will encompass a blend of psychological, socio-cultural and historical perspectives on death, with a special emphasis placed throughout on an exploration of approaches to recognizing and dealing with grief and life threatening illness. Additional issues to be addressed will include the experience of death across the life span as well as medical, legal, and other practical concerns associated with death and the accessing of services throughout the course of the dying process.
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3.00 Credits
Learning has been identified as a key issue in the endeavor to understand human behavior. This course will explore Behaviorist models, such as Operant and Classical Conditioning, along with Cognitive models, focusing on memory. The themes of this course will be the adaptive nature, and neural basis of learning and memory. Applications are made to animal learning, artificial intelligence, development, behavior modification and training. This course is offered in rotation with PSY 312 and PSY 342.
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