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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Students will explore answers to fundamental questions about the psychology of leadership. Emphasis is on psychological theories and how they address the issue of "selfleadership". Psychological approaches to the measurement of leadership effectiveness will be used to critically evaluate various contemporary models found in popular culture.
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3.00 Credits
Teaches students how to think critically about the psychological research on romantic attraction and close relationships. The course goal is to educate intelligent consumers of media information and misinformation, teaching them to separate scientifically valid from invalid claims about the causes and consequences of initial romantic attraction, deepening close relationships, sex differences, problems that occur within close relationships, and effective versus ineffective strategies for resolving conflicts in close relationships.
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3.00 Credits
Basic principles of psychology in relation to the development, assessment, and modification of personality adjustment. Emphasizes patterns of normal adjustment (intra- and interpersonal) to typical contemporary environments.
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3.00 Credits
This course represents credit earned through a semester study abroad experience with an institution or program with which Texas Christian University has an official agreement to accept credit. The site and specific content will be identified on the official transcript. Courses appearing on a student's official transcript have been included in the student's grade point average.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing and membership in the Honors Program. An examination of a major issue in psychology. This course is only offered as a tutorial and the specific topic is determined by consultation with an instructor. Arrangements for this course must be made with an instructor the semester prior to enrollment.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 10213, or 10514, or 10524. An overview of contemporary knowledge about various states of consciousness including both theoretical perspectives and contemporary applications.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 10213, or 10514, or 10524. The nature of scientific theories and their application to the claims of paranormal events. The emphasis is on a skeptical analysis of such reputed phenomena as extra sensory perception, psychokinesis, clairvoyance, and precognition. Alternative explanations of claims of the paranormal using established scientific principles, laws and theories of behavior are examined.
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2.00 Credits
Two hours lecture and three hours lab. Prerequisite: PSYC 10213, or 10514, or 10524, or approval of instructor. Instruction and practice in the elements of effective participation in task oriented groups and in the strategies and techniques of systematic problem solving. Topics in group processes include group membership roles, task oriented roles, leadership roles, group norms, competition, and conflict management. Topics in problem solving include problem definition, brainstorming, means-end analysis, and structured decision making.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 10213, or 10514, or 10524. Human behavior from conception to adolescence; the influences of heredity and maturation, physical, social and cognitive development, with child observations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 10213, or 10514, or 10524 or approval of instructor. Emphasis on empirical studies of sexuality, encompassing its varied manifestations, its many determinants, and contemporary theories of sexuality, with an emphasis on evolutionary theory. Bodily mechanisms and their development, sexually transmitted diseases, and aspects of reproduction are also covered.
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