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3.00 Credits
A survey of the major theoretical approaches to understanding the development, structure, and dynamics of personality. Prerequisite: PSYC 101.
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4.00 Credits
This course covers descriptive and inferential statistics, frequency distributions, percentile rank, measure of central tendency and variability, correlation and regression and tests of significance. Using computer software students will directly apply these statistics to specific problems common to the behavioral sciences. Prerequisite: MATH 115
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3.00 Credits
The study of human growth and development. This course is designed to give the student an understanding of children and how they change while passing through the major phases of growth. Emphasis is placed on physical, emotional, and personality development with an aim toward understanding the period of human growth on which adulthood is founded. Special topics include: identification of conditions in childhood leading to normal psychological development. Prerequisite: PSYC 101.
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3.00 Credits
The study of human growth and development. This course is designed to give the student an understanding of children and adolescents and how they change while passing through the major phases of growth. Emphasis is placed on physical, emotional, and personality development with an aim toward understanding the period of human growth on which adulthood is founded. Prerequisite: PSYC 101. ( Prerequisite or corequisite for teacher certification: EDUC 201.)
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the study of that portion of human development called adolescence. Some of the topics treated: significance of puberty, biological and social sex roles, adolescent image, the emergence of new figures such as peers and idols, society at large as agents of socialization in place of parents and family, the extinction of old habits and practices and their replacement with new behavioral patterns. Theoretical consideration will be supplemented with observational experience. Prerequisite: PSYC 101.
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3.00 Credits
The study of human aging and changes during adulthood. This course is designed to give the student an understanding of early, middle, and later adulthood. Topics include physical changes, social-life changes, identity and interpersonal behavior, family life, and retirement, as well as the pathologies of old age. Prerequisite: PSYC 101.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of the behavioral sciences disciplines as they affect marketing decisions. Consideration of such fields as psychology, sociology, and anthropology as the bases for studying consumer motivation and behavior. Prerequisite: PSYC 101.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasis on human learning. Consideration of concepts of readiness, individual differences, motivation, retention, transfer, concept development, reasoning, mental health, and measurement as related to learning. Psychological principles of teaching-learning technology are examined. Prerequisite: PSYC 101.
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3.00 Credits
Learning theory is a fundamental science course. The student is asked to trace the emergence of modern cognitive learning theory (neo-behaviorism) from the original works of Pavlov, Thorndike, and Watson through the "blackbox" Skinnerianschool of thought. The course emphasizes theoretical rather than methodological issues and, as such, is designed to give the student a firm grasp of the conditions under which permanent behavior change occurs. Prerequisite: PSYC 101. (Offered regularly, but not every semester.)
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3.00 Credits
A study of man's relationship to the physical environment. Topics include the effects of architecture on behavior, design in selective environments, social uses of space, urban and environmental stressors, encouraging ecological behaviors. Prerequisite: PSYC 101.
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