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3.00 Credits
The various categories of disturbed behavior are described in terms of their defining symptom patterns. Causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention are also discussed. Prerequisite: junior status, any 200-level psychology course or consent. Offered each spring.
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Presents the theories of motivation with particular emphasis on how they apply to animal behavior. The biological systems underlying motivational processes are outlined and discussed. There are visits to local animal care and training facilities, individual or group projects, and report writing. Prerequisites: junior/senior status, PSY 201 and 277. Offered intermittently.
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Because the effectiveness of adjustment to one's physical and social surroundings is affected by how the individual interprets environmental events, a genuine understanding of behavior depends on a knowledge of the mechanisms that construct personal realities. This course traces the physiological and psychological events that lead from stimulation of the sensory systems to the eventual emergence of perceptually guided responses. Prerequisite: junior/senior status. Offered fall of even-numbered years.
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Provides a comprehensive and in-depth examination of the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive aspects of adolescent development. Both normal outcomes and special problems are addressed. Prerequisites: junior/senior status and PSY 201 or consent. Offered spring of oddnumbered years.
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3.00 Credits
Students read a wide variety of works that provide a context for inquiring about the origin of consciousness and its relationship to unconscious mental activities. The highly analytical, manipulative, and verbal states of mind are compared to those that are more integrative, receptive, and magical. Evidence is presented that these two modes of operation can lead to sharply contrasting conceptions of what is true, possible, and worthy. The ultimate objective is to understand how the interplay of these distinctive, yet complementary, styles of information processing shapes each person's subjective version of reality. Prerequisites: junior/senior status and any 200-level psychology course. Offered intermittently.
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Examines research findings that help us understand how people perceive, remember, and think. These informationprocessing functions are described in terms of interacting mental activities such as pattern recognition, allocation of attention, concept formation, encoding, hypothesis testing, and internal monitoring of problem-solving strategies. Evaluation of a person's intelligence is viewed as a diagnostic task that attempts to assess the relative efficiency of these various processing components. Extensive opportunities are provided for students to gain valuable insights regarding their own cognitive skills. Prerequisites: junior/senior status and any 200-level psychology course. Offered spring of odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
An advanced seminar designed to study the primary literature on various announced topics in psychology. Topics will vary from semester to semester and may include, but are not limited to: community psychology, correctional psychology, ethics, interpersonal relationships, and psychology of women. May be repeated for credit as topics change. Prerequisite: junior/senior status, any 200-level psychology course or consent. Offered intermittently.
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An explanation of psychological topics of interest through the multiple lenses of nonfiction writing, films, and scientific reporting. How do each of these ways of telling us about ourselves shape our understanding of psychological reality? How do our background and experiences, including our understanding of psychological reality, shape our understanding of the psychological themes that are embedded in nonfiction writing and in film? Why is it important to answer these two reciprocal questions? To assist us in our search for answers, we read specific memoirs, biographies and scientific works in addition to viewing related films. Clinical, social psychological, and developmental themes are emphasized; and both individual and societal consequences of alternative ways of "knowing" psychological realtiy are discussed. Prerequisites:junior/senior status, any 200-level psychology course or consent. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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Integrates elements of ecology (the science and study of habitat) and psychology (the science and study of behavior) in an effort to explore historical and contemporary environmental issues and problems. Ecopsychology also has roots in theology, philosophy, anthropology, and activist politics. Concepts are applied both to urban and wilderness environments and to both humans and wildlife. Aspects of Western intellectual thought that influence contemporary views about nature are examined. Particular fields and theories of psychology are studied and applied to environmental difficulties. An assumption of this course is that it is crucial to understand the roles of human behavior, beliefs, decisions, and values as both causes and solutions of environmental problems. Prerequisites: junior/senior status and completion of most General Studies requirements. Offered each fall.
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Provides an overview of modern psychoanalytic concepts of mental illness and health. Topics include autonomous ego, object-relations theory, affect theory, sexual and aggressive drives, and defense mechanisms. Prerequisite: junior/senior status, PSY 355, 466 or consent. Offered intermittently.
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