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3.00 Credits
familiarizes students with the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. This course focuses on the fundamental principles of social thinking and social cognition, social influence and group dynamics, and social relations, with society and culture serving as the contexts. Opportunities are given for students to reflect upon how these social principles are at work in their daily life. Prerequisite: PSYC 111 or SOCI 111. (IAI Course # PSY 908, S8 900)
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3.00 Credits
acquaints students with psychological principles as applied in organizational settings. Discussion topics include development of human resources, leadership and decision making styles, organizational dynamics, working conditions, and human factors. Prerequisite: PSYC 111. (IAI Course # PSY 906)
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3.00 Credits
introduces students to the origin, principal characteristics, function, and use of psychological tests. Emphasis is placed on principles and theories of psychological measurement. Prerequisite: PSYC 111.
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3.00 Credits
surveys the theories and current research in animal and human learning. Attention is given to classical, operant, cognitive, evolutionary, developmental, and biological explanations of behavior and behavior change. A strong focus is on the application of these fundamentals to real life situations. Prerequisite: PSYC 111.
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4.00 Credits
serves as a capstone course for the psychology major. This course focuses on the experimental approach. Students will learn the rationale of the experimental method and the ethical principles in doing research. Students will be guided step by step through student originated small scale experiments from defining research questions to writing scientific reports in the APA style. There is a lab session in the course. Prerequisites: MATH 105 or MATH 175 (recommended).
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2.00 Credits
continues to acquaint students with research methods in addition to the experimental method. The focus is on the survey, the case history, and the correlational approaches. Prerequisite: PSYC 333.
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3.00 Credits
discusses developmental changes and mechanisms in the physical, cognitive, moral, emotional, personality, and social aspects during the period from conception to late childhood/early adolescence. It acquaints students with the research approaches and developmental designs practiced by developmental psychologists. It also encourages students to apply major research findings to parenting and education. Prerequisite: PSYC 111 and PSYC 240 or consent of the instructor. (IAI Course # PSY 901)
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3.00 Credits
examines the developmental stage of adolescence as a continuation from late childhood toward emerging adulthood. It discusses physical, cognitive, moral, emotional, social, and career developments that take place during this period and various influencing factors. This course also alerts the students to some of the major problems that adolescents encounter today, such as violence, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy, and stress. It encourages students to work out solutions. Prerequisites: PSYC 111 and PSYC 240 or consent of the instructor. (IAI Course # PSY 902)
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3.00 Credits
covers the developmental period from adulthood to old age. The processes of adult development and aging will be examined from biological, psychosocial, and sociological perspectives. Changes in the domains of physical health, cognitive functioning, emotional needs, work and leisure, social bonds, family functioning, finances and life styles, the issues of caregiving/healthcare and death and dying will be discussed. Prerequisite: PSYC 111 and PSYC 240 or consent of the instructor. (IAI Course # PSY 903)
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3.00 Credits
presents a systematic overview of the major personality theories. Emphasis is placed on the structure and function of personality theory, methods of personality research, and comparison of the various theories. Psychodynamic, trait, humanistic/existential, cognitive and behavioral explanations are included. Prerequisite: PSYC 111.
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