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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 30503. An overview of major issues and topics in modern cognitive psychology with particular emphasis on interpreting basic research in memory and cognitive processes.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 10213, or 10514, or 10524 or approval of instructor. Study of the nervous system, action systems, and sensory systems to provide background for examining the physiological bases of discrimination, motivation, emotions, and learning. (Also offered as Biology 30463.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 30503. Provides knowledge of animal behavior as a field of research based on mechanistic and evolutionary approaches. Provides a basic vocabulary and a conceptual framework which enables the student to appreciate the importance and scope of animal behavior as an interdisciplinary field and to identify areas of interest for further study.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 10213, or 10514, or 10524, or approval of instructor. Presents an approach to the study of human brain function by examining the behavioral syndromes resulting from neurological disease and brain damage. Topics will include an overview of the nervous system; neuropsychological assessment; cortical dysfunction; language disorders; developmental neuropsychology; and recovery of function following brain trauma.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 10213 or PSYC 10514, or PSYC 10524. A comprehensive view of human evolution. Topics include the fossil record, primates and hominids, evidence of the effects of natural selection on human anatomy and behavior, the development of human culture, mating patterns, technology, social structures, emergence of art and civilization, and the evolutionary shaping of perceptual, cognitive, and motivational processes.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 10213, or 10514, or 10524, plus MATH 10043. Basic elements of behavioral research-planning, execution, analysis, and interpretation. Includes selection of research problems, measurement of behavioral constructs, development of instruments, and experimental and non-experimental designs as well as the basic statistical methods and concepts needed in behavioral research.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PSYC 10213, or 10514, or 10524, and 9 hours of psychology or permission of the instructor. The roots of modern psychology and the development of the schools of psychology will be discussed. The historical developments in science and philosophy that were the determinants of the founding of psychology will be analyzed.
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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
Teaches students how to think critically about psychological research on sex, violence, and aggression. The course goal is to educate intelligent consumers of media information and misinformation, teaching them to separate scientifically valid from invalid claims that such factors as genetics, biochemistry, socialization practices, sex differences, ambient temperature, alcohol, television, movies, and video games affect interpersonal violence and aggression.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: PSYC 30003, Senior standing, and membership in the Honors Program. A supervised research experience and a thesis that is usually based on the subject matter studied in 30003. This course is offered only as a tutorial. Arrangements for this course must be made with an instructor the semester prior to enrollment. It is recommended that enrollment occur the fall semester of the senior year.
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