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  • PSY 2041: Environmental Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Manhattanville College

    Environmental psychology examines the interrelationship between environments and human behavior. This course will provide a basic understanding of the field, its history, development, and interdisciplinary components. In addition, it will examine the social, cultural, psychological and political issues involved in the production, use, design, and occupation of space, place, and nature. A focus will be placed on the applied nature of the field. Recommended: PSY 1004: Fundamentals of Psychology. ( Offering is tentative based on student interest.)
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  • PSY 2042: Psychology and Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Manhattanville College

    This course introduces students to the area of cultural psychology, a sub-discipline of psychology that focuses on how culture influences how people think and behave. Students will examine the ways in which culture influences cognition, development, emotion, the self, personality, cultural values and psychological orientations, morality, concepts of gender, and mental health. In addition, the course will focus on the processes of globalization, immigration, and intergroup conflict and social change and how they pertain to our understanding of culture. Recommended: PSY 1004: Fundamentals of Psychology. ( Fall '07 and Fall '08)
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  • PSY 2044: Cognitive Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Manhattanville College

    Historical and contemporary approaches to the study of the mind including developmental theorists will be surveyed. Topics may include: consciousness, attention, memory, perceptual processes, emotion, information processing, imagery, concepts, language, problem solving, reasoning, intelligence, and creativity. Recommended: PSY 1004: Fundamentals of Psychology. ( Fall '07 & '08) (Spring '08 & '0
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  • PSY 2046: Psychology of Identity

    3.00 Credits
    Manhattanville College

    This introductory level course examines the ways in which psychology can help us to understand the development of identity. It will emphasize the influence of socialization experiences, the role of maturation, and the importance of social construction, as well as an examination of the linkage between development of identity and sociocultural contexts. Recommended: PSY 1004: Fundamentals of Psychology. (Spring '08 and Spring '09)
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  • PSY 2048: Learning and Memory

    3.00 Credits
    Manhattanville College

    This survey will take a cognitive approach to an overview of basic principles of learning and memory in humans and nonhuman animals. It will examine several different theories of how learning occurs and how learned information is stored in memory. Some of the topics covered will be classical and operant conditioning (including fear conditioning, generalization, discrimination, punishment, reinforcement, taste aversion, and learned helplessness), habituation, implicit and explicit memory (including interference, forgetting, decay, encoding and retrieval mechanisms, short and long term memory, spatial memory, amnesia, infantile amnesia and eyewitness testimony), and comparative memory across species. Recommended: PSY 1004: Fundamentals of Psychology. ( Fall '07)
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  • PSY 2049: Health Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Manhattanville College

    This course is designed to provide students with a general introduction to the field of Health Psychology. A variety of topics will be included: compliance with the medical system; stress and its relationship to illness; stress and its relationship to pain; causes, treatment, and prevention of a number of diseases; sociocultural factors in disease; and coping with illness. Recommended: PSY 1004: Fundamentals of Psychology. ( Fall '07 & '08) (Spring '08 & '0
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  • PSY 2061: Psychology of Motivation

    3.00 Credits
    Manhattanville College

    This course will examine the major principles of motivated behavior by examining various issues and controversies in the field from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Such issues include the foundational bases and organizing principles of motivation; analysis of some basic motivational systems such as hunger, thirst, sex, sleep, work, play, pleasure, and aggression; and the role that emotions and self-regulation play in modulating these motivational systems. Recommended: PSY 1004: Fundamentals of Psychology. ( Offering is tentative based on student interest.)
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  • PSY 2062: Psychology of Women

    3.00 Credits
    Manhattanville College

    Students will examine literature and research on women's roles, psychological development, sex differences, parenthood, motherhood, marriage, divorce, and careers. Attention will also be paid to the legal and economic position of women, feminist movements, and the historical changes in women's positions in society. Recommended: PSY 1004: Fundamentals of Psychology. ( Fall '07 & '08) (Spring '08 & '0
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  • PSY 3004: History and Systems of Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Manhattanville College

    Although psychology as a formal discipline is little more than a century old, psychological questions and phenomena have been the source of curiosity for millennia. This lecture/discussion course is designed to trace the intellectual roots of psychology (beginning with the early Greeks) by examining persistent ideas, methods of inquiry, significant individuals, and events that have conspired to produce psychology as we know it today. Prerequisites: PSY 1004: Fundamentals of Psychology (for juniors and seniors only). ( Spring '08 & '09)
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  • PSY 3005: Psycholinguistics

    3.00 Credits
    Manhattanville College

    This course will consider the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language. The study of language, including: sentence comprehension and memory, language acquisition and development, and speech perception; the effects of context, perception, and reasoning; linguistic structure on the processing of language; and the underlying brain processes will be examined. Prerequisite: PSY 2044: Cognitive Psychology. (Offering is tentative based on student interest.)
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