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5.00 Credits
How gender shapes the lives of men and women, including human development, personality, cognition, achievement, and social behavior. Emphasis will be on the mechanisms through which gender has its effect, including possible effects of biology, learning, modeling, social roles, etc. Prerequisite: PSYC 120.
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5.00 Credits
Study of the assumptions, basic principles, and implications for psychotherapy and everyday life of selected personality theorists representing the psychoanalytic, social psychological, social learning, humanistic, and existential approaches to psychology. Prerequisite: 15 credits in psychology and PSYC 120 or equivalent.
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5.00 Credits
Overview of forensic psychology and the nexus between psychology, law, and criminology. Survey of policy, practice, and research in forensic psychology and application of psychology to the criminal justice system and criminal and civil litigation. Topics include: Criminal behavior, the relationship between the criminal justice and mental health systems, ethical guidelines and challenges faced in forensic work, methods and instruments used by forensic psychologists, investigative psychology and offender profiling, the insanity defense and competency determinations, risk assessment and prediction of dangerousness, sex offender treatment, and correctional interventions. Cross-listed with CRJS 360. Prerequisites: CRJS 110, CRJS 209, PSYC 120.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Special Topics
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Directed Study
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5.00 Credits
Covers numerous multivariate statistics and related research methodology in the behavioral sciences. Students will gain a strong conceptual understanding of various multivariate statistics and develop an understanding of the application of these techniques to answer various research questions Students will also learn how to conduct and interpret analyses in SPSS. Prerequisites: PSYC 303, 305.
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5.00 Credits
Principles of classical conditioning; instrumental conditioning, reinforcement, punishment, and avoidance learning; generalization and discrimination, biological aspects of conditioning and learning; review of major learning theories; and application of learning principles in the management of animal and human behavior. Prerequisite: PSYC 120.
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5.00 Credits
Basic theory, principles and dynamics of the counselor-client relationship and the counseling process. Prerequisite: PSYC 120, 10 additional PSYC credits, and junior standing.
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5.00 Credits
Considers alternative models of how our mind works to receive, store, and process information. The relative strengths of those models in the light of existing data are evaluated. Topics include processes of attention, memory, reasoning and decision making, including the implications of those processes for issues in education, language, social interaction, risk assessment, etc. Prerequisite: PSYC 120. PSYC 303 recommended.
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5.00 Credits
Examines a variety of life's relationships, through literature, film, psychological theory, discussion and student participation. The aim is to study relationships in the context of 'real people? ? - not through the textbook approach without the human aspect of humabehavior. Prerequisite: PSYC 120, and at least two psychology electives.
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