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Autism:Characteristics and Overview
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Core Complement Course in Social Sciences This course is designed to provide the student with a general overview of this diverse field. It surveys such areas as basic research design and quantification in the behavioral sciences, growth and development throughout the life cycle, cognition and learning, motivation and emotion, personality and conflict, maladaptive behavior, adjustment, and mental health. The course integrates the cultural, ethnic and gender factors influencing human actions and thus provides an important global framework for enhancing the student's understanding of behavior, behavior change, and cognitive processes. This course is the prerequisite for several psychology courses listed below. 3 credits.
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Designed to prepare students planning to major or minor in this discipline for their upper level studies, this course will take the student with rudimentary knowledge of psychology's more commonly discussed introductory topics into new subject areas and into traditional subject areas in greater depth. In addition, students will delve into psychology's more esoteric scientific side including, but not limited to, laboratory and field-based research methods, library and computer-based literature searching, quantitative methods, technical report writing and related matters. Prerequisite: PSY100. 3 credits.
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Child growth from conception to adolescence is explored to gain an understanding of individual differences, healthy personality development, and maladjustment. Typical behavior patterns and common transient divergences from these patterns will be discussed with reference to their hereditary and environmental antecedents. Prerequisite: PSY100. 3 credits.
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This course studies the experience of adulthood beginning at the onset of adolescence by examining the tasks which are unique to different periods of adult life. The physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and intellectual developmental processes during the adult years are examined in depth. Prerequisite: PSY100. 3 credits.
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Social Psychology can be defined as the scientific study of how our thoughts, feelings, and behavior are influenced by other people. Through Social Psychology you will come to see the power of the situation in influencing behavior, the potential power of the person in overcoming this influence, the importance of cognition in determining how we react to the situation, and the wide-ranging applicability of social psychological principles. Prerequisite: PSY100. 3 credits.
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Core Complement Course in Social Sciences This course provides students with an opportunity to see how the discipline of psychology studies prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. Students will explore a variety of topics including stigmatization, racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, genocide, and heterosexism, examine their effects, and consider how such effects can be prevented or ameliorated. This course is a VIA section of PSY255 and fulfills a core complement social sciences requirement. Prerequisite: PSY100 recommended. 3 credits.
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In this course, students will survey the most important theories of personality in contemporary psychology. The way each theorist views the structure, dynamics, and development of personality is emphasized to facilitate comparisons. Additionally, each theory will be evaluated as to its validity and the reasonableness of its underlying assumptions. Some discussion of applications is included. Prerequisite: PSY100. 3 credits.
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