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Course Criteria
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One unit. An examination of historical and contemporary learning theories including those of Pavlov, Watson, Hull, and Skinner. Emphasis is placed on the application of these theories to topics including Pavlovian and operant conditioning, habit formation, reinforcement and reward, punishment, motivation, and stimulus control of behavior. Students will be introduced to the measurement and experimental analysis of behavior by conducting laboratory experiments. The use of these techniques in various areas of psychological research and application (such as behavior modifi cation) are discussed. Prerequisites: PS 101, 116. Offered as required.
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One unit. Students are introduced to research methods in perceptual psychology. Topics include psychophysical methods, neural mechanisms of seeing and hearing, illusions, distance perception, and schools of perceptual psychology. Some laboratory work is required. Prerequisites: PS 101, 116. Offered as required.
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One unit. A survey of classic and current issues, theory, and research in the area of human cognition. Topics considered include memory and attention processes, problems of representation of information, hemispheric specialization, and the structure of categories and creativity. Some experimental work is required. Prerequisites: PS 101, 116. Offered as required.
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One unit. An examination of the philosophy, theory and research of environmental psychology. Discussion of the contributions of the American Functionalist and Ecological schools of psychology, and theories of the effects of stress, environmental overload, and constraint on freedom and undermanning on a person's reaction to the environment. Other topics of discussion include research on the effects of crowding, noise, weather, natural disasters, and the urban environment. Some experimental work is required. Prerequisites: PS 101, 116. Offered as required.
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One unit. An in-depth review of classic and contemporary theory and research on human development. Emphasis is placed on core issues in developmental psychology, research methodology with human subjects, and ethical issues in the investigation of human development. Topics covered include perceptual, cognitive, social, emotional, and moral elements of personality development. Prerequisites: PS 101, 111, 112, 116. Offered as required.
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One unit. A survey of theory, research, history, and research methods used by social psychologists. Topics include social cognition, social perception, self-justifi cation, social infl uence, conformity, interpersonal attraction, prosocial behavior, aggression, and prejudice. Basic and applied research in the laboratory and the fi eld will be evaluated. Students will work independently or in small groups on a research project. Prerequisites: PS 101, 116. Offered as required.
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One unit. An examination of the principal theories of the origin, structure, and dynamics of the personality, including the psychoanalytic, trait, existential, and behavioristic schools of thought. Theorists studied include Freud, Jung, Adler, Skinner, Horney, Erikson, Bandura, Rogers, and May. A comparative and critical approach is taken. Prerequisite: PS 101. Offered as required.
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One unit. A discussion of seven areas of specialization within the fi eld of industrial-organizational psychology and their relation to other areas of psychology. Applications of psychological principles and methods in business and industry are illustrated, including personnel selection and human relations. Prerequisite: PS 101. Offered as required.
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One unit. The course deals with various schools of counseling and psychotherapy, including the psychoanalytic, existential-humanistic, clientcentered, Gestalt, behavioral, transactional, rational- emotive, and reality therapy approaches. Basic issues discussed are the goals, function and role of the therapist, the therapist-client relationship, communication strategies, transference, and countertransference. Prerequisites: PS 101, 212. Offered as required.
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One unit. An examination of ingestive behavior from a variety of perspectives: behavioral, neurobiological, ethological, cognitive/perceptual, clinical, social, and cultural. Early emphasis will be on research methodology and the biopsychological mechanisms of eating. We will then consider the infl uence of motivation, learning, and social interaction on food-related behavior in animals and humans. Research on eating behavior will be used to understand eating pathologies, including eating disorders such as bulimia, and anorexia nervosa and the eating syndromes (for example, binge eating) that may be associated with obesity. All reading assignments will be of original research and review articles. Prerequisite: PS 116 or permission of the instructor. Offered as required.
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