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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
(3) Covers organization and function of the human brain and nervous system - how we sense, move, feel, and think. Details the operation of neurons, nervous system organization, sensation, movement, and human behavior, including mood, emotion, sleep, learning, memory, language, and attention. Assumes minimal prior knowledge of biology, physics, and chemistry. Three hours lecture. Fall, spring.
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3.00 Credits
Considers broad range effects of a social context on individual and group behavior. Examines interpersonal relations and actions, attitude developments and change, group interactions, advertising and news, prejudice and stereotyping, love and sex, leadership, and work environments as they relate to and affect behavior. Prerequisite: Psychology 121. Fall, spring.
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4.00 Credits
Emphasizes scientific basis of psychology. Explores research methods of modern psychology. Covers use of statistics in design of behavioral experiments. Example experiments are conducted to aid comprehension. Students gain skills necessary for management of simple research and interpretation of research reports. Three hours lecture, two hours lab. Prerequisites: Psychology 121, 245. Fall, spring.
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3.00 Credits
Examines abnormal behavior with emphasis on anxiety disorders, affective disorders, and schizophrenia. Includes the biological and psychological bases of mental disorder and psychological factors involved in diagnosis and treatment of mental disorder. Prerequisite: Psychology 121. Fall, spring.
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3.00 Credits
Examines specific topics in psychology through a seminar or workshop format. Prerequisite: Psychology 121 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the nature of language development in infancy and childhood. Examines cognitive, developmental, environmental, and physiological influences on language skills. Theories of language development and their influences on research and our understanding of children discussed. Topics include perception of sounds, acquisition of grammar, first and second language learning, and developmental language disorders. Relationship between language skills and overall development (social, cognitive, biological) also explored. Recommended prerequisites: Psychology 121, 226. Spring, alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
(3) Studies behavioral characteristics, causes, diag- nosis, and treatment of the psychopathological problems of childhood and adolescence including anxiety states, developmental disorders, attention deficit disorder, conduct disorder, and autistic disorder. Discusses assessment and treatment from biological and psychological perspectives. Prerequisite: Psychology 121. Recommended: Psychology 226. Fall.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the organization and processing of sensory information and influence of emotion, learning, thoughts, and other personal factors on human perception. Prerequisites: Psychology 121, 245, 246. Spring, alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Comprehensive coverage of application of psychological principles to personnel selection and training, worker motivation and morale, labor problems in industry, executive leadership, engineering psychology, and personnel problems in industry. Prerequisite: Psychology 121. Fall, alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Involves the study of brain function and physiological processes as they relate to behavior. Studies function of hormonal mechanisms, nervous system, and brain as they relate to emotion, motivation, thinking, learning, memory, and other areas of human behavior. Also considers the effect of drugs, electrical stimulation of the brain, and other means of behavior control. Prerequisite: Psychology 121. Recommended: Biology 100 or higher. Fall.
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