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Examines the research methods, empirical findings, and theoretical explanations of conditioning, learning and other complex cognitive forms of knowledge acquisition. The course includes a consideration of the comparative findings from both the animal and human learning literatures. Historical and contemporary trends in the study of learned phenomena are also included.
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This course provides a comprehensive overview of the role of culture in shaping a person's behavior and mental processes. Additionally, we assess the extent to which the approaches and conclusions of Western (especially American) psychology apply to people coming of age in non-Western cultures.
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3.00 Credits
This course critically examines people's information- processing capabilities and limitations. Emphasis is placed on the theoretical principles that underlie the attention, perception, and memory of events as well as current research problems. Prerequisite: PSY 203 recommended
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The course surveys the major forms of children's learning and cognitive processes, examining both the empirical data base and the theoretical formulations used to account for the findings. Topics covered include conditioning in infancy and early childhood, language acquisition, behavior modification, discrimination reversal learning, verbal learning, concept learning, and learning to read.
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This course focuses on the internal, external, and experiential components of human aggression. The acquisition and development of aggression is examined from psychoanalytic, learning, social learning, cognitive, and physiological theoretical perspectives. The main objective of the course is to provide students with a better understanding of individual and collective violence and aggression.
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The modification of animal and human behavior is explored through the application of principles of learning. Behavioral phenomena and techniques including generalization, acquisition, extinction, conditioned reinforcers, schedules of reinforcement, and aversive control are studied. Using computer software that re-creates animal learning typical of animal learning studies, students gain familiarity with traditional laboratory techniques and basic principles of learning. The latter half of the course addresses how these basic principles are translated into use in applied settings with humans. Prerequisite: PSY 354 3 credits
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A topic not covered by an existing course is offered as recommended by the department and approved by the dean. Prerequisite: Permission of the department chairperson 3 credits Humanities and Social Science236 s
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This course explores the major theories of psychotherapy and the application of those theories. For each therapy mode, the theory of psychopathology is related to the methods used and the theory of change. Research outcomes for each type of psychotherapy are reviewed. Prerequisite: PSY 350 or PSY 351
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To provide a groundwork for this course in the neurosciences, a behaviorally oriented overview of nervous system functioning and biochemistry is integrated with discussions of basic pharmacological principles and biobehavioral research methods. The physiological, behavioral, and psychological effects of the major classes of psychoactive drugs are presented. Emphasis is placed on understanding the mechanisms of these drugs at molecular, cellular, and neurophysiological levels; the similarities and differences in mechanisms between drugs; and the experimental paradigms utilized to arrive at the findings. Prerequisite: One year of biology or BIO 114 or PSY 353 Physiological Psychology
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3.00 Credits
Using a lecture and phenomenological approach, this course explores how the living organism experiences the real world. All sensory systems are examined in terms of the paradigm of information coming from the distal stimulus to the proximal stimulus (physical energy); the sense organs converting the physical energy into electrochemical energy (sensations); the organism operating on and experiencing the world (perception).
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