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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Assists students who are deciding on a major or career. This course is designed to help students gain an understanding of self and world of work and to become familiar with career-related resources. This course does not fulfill Socal Science requirement.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Fosters understanding of psychology as a science. Integrates introduction to basic designs, hypothesis generation, ethics, and writing conventions with computation of descriptive statistics and conceptual overview of inferential techniques. Preparation for: reading empirical articles, applied and advanced courses, working on faculty research, senior inquiry research projects. Team exercises in lab.
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0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Aims at a practicing and theoretical understanding of statistics and basic research methods, and at developing computer literacy. Application of both descriptive and inferential statistics within correlational and experimental designs. Computer literacy includes data entry, simple statistical packages; laboratory. Offered once a year.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines core features of the human mind that render it wholly different from the mental faculties of even our closest genetic relatives. The biological origins of the brain, the shaping of the mind by culture, and the human capacity for morality and religiosity are among the topics addressed.
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3.00 Credits
Discussion of higher-order cognitive processes, including memory functioning, reasoning, thinking, problem-solving, language production and comprehension.
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3.00 Credits
Neural basis of behavior, including sensory and motor systems, ingestive behaviors, sleep, aggression, learning, and psychological disorders.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to theory, research methods and empirical findings in the field of developmental psychology. Special emphasis given to mormative psychological development from conception to puberty, including aspects of cognitive, language, social, emotional, and personality development.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to theory and research in the developmental psychology of adolescence. Emphasis given to the diversity of normative psychological development from puberty to adulthood, including aspects of physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and identity development.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the scientific study of social behavior focusing on how people relate to, think about, and influence each other. Topics include attitude formation and change, social cognition, conformity, group decision-making, aggression, altruism, prejudice, and interpersonal attraction and relationships.
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3.00 Credits
Dominant personality theories of Freud, Jung, Adler, Skinner, Maslow, Rogers, Kelly, etc., are presented within a historical and comtemporary context. Emphasis on application of theory to personal situations through small group discussions and student log.
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