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  • 3.00 Credits

    Credit Hours: 3 This beginning course in the clinical sequence explains personality functioning from perspectives of Freudian psychoanalysis, biophysiology, humanism, and behaviorism. Emphasis is also placed on the formation and development of personality orientations and disorders. Prerequisite(s): PSY 100.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credit Hours: 3 This second course in the clinical sequence lays the groundwork for an understanding of the psychopathological syndromes defined in DSM III. Thorough and eclectic coverage of the causes and the personality dynamics associated with the syndromes is also presented. Prerequisite(s): PSY 100
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credit Hours: 3 First course in a two-course research methods sequence. Focuses on descriptive statistics and non-experimental research techniques, correlation and linear regression. Research methods discussed include observational, correlational, and survey research. Students are required to perform data gathering exercises and write research reports. Prerequisite(s): PSY 100, MAT 125 or consent of instructor
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credit Hours: 3 Continuation of Psychology Research Methods I. Focuses on experimental methodologies and inferential statistical analysis. Various simple and factorial experimental designs are discussed and elementary statistical techniques for hypotheses testing are introduced. Non-parametric and parametric statistical techniques including analysis of variance are covered. Prerequisite(s): PSY 316 with grade of "C" or better.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credit Hours: 3 This course examines major areas within the broad scope of cognitive psychology from theoretical and applied approaches. Students will learn how information from the environment is transformed, reduced, elaborated, stored, recovered, and used in order to respond appropriately to that information. Topics include attention, short and long term memory, categorization, imagery, and language. Prerequisite(s): PSY 100.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credit Hours: 3 Theory and principles of measurement and evaluation of psychological variables and individual differences. Course develops understanding of technical aspects of test construction, administration, and interpretation. Prerequisite(s): PSY 100.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credit Hours: 3 This course examines major theories of learning and the behaviors they explain. To enhance student learning, students will be asked to apply the theories they learn to real-world learning situations Additionally, students will gain a deeper understanding of the underlying principles regulating learning by training virtual rats. Topics include classical and instrumental conditioning, schedules and types of reinforcement, observational and incidental learning, and shaping. Prerequisite(s): PSY 100.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credit Hours: 3 An introduction to the application of psychology to the world of work for all majors. Topics include quality of work life and productivity, career development, selection and supervision, human factors (in human-machine systems), managing diversity, interpersonal competence, and stress management in the work place.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credit Hours: 3 This web-based organizational psychology course enables students from all majors to build the conceptual foundation and skills repertoire required to function effectively in modern complex organizations. In addition to an examination of the more visible and overt features of organizations such as structure, communication, roles and leadership processes, the course also deals with the less visible and covert processes that can interfere with personal, team, and organizational effectiveness. Since the format requires considerable personal initiative, the initial course activities are designed to foster the development of the self-directed learning skills needed for life-long personal and professional growth.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Credit Hours: 3 A course concerned with the neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and neurochemical bases of learning, memory, perception, motivation, and the contribution of genetic factors to behavior. Prerequisite(s): PSY 100.
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