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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: PSY 101. Theory, research, and practical application of personal growth and adjustment throughout the lifespan; theories of adjustment; characteristics of the healthy personality; sex roles and gender differences; interpersonal relationships; adjustments to school, work, and retirement; understanding and managing stress; human sexuality; strategies for coping and adjustment.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0; 8 Prerequisite: PSY 101. Empirical and theoretical issues of the psychology of gender issues; differences in female and male behavior in terms of such social factors as conformity to societal pressures, sex-role stereotyping, and gender-specific socialization patterns; biological influences on gender differences; development of sex differences; gender-role development; sex differences in cognition, personality, achievement, and leadership.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisite: PSY 101. Objective coverage of the relevant issues pertaining to death and dying; the stages of dying, counseling the dying person, attitudes of and reactions to death, psychological needs served by funeral and burial rituals, suicide, grief, bereavement, the child and death, effect of death on survivors, euthanasia, and medical and legal definitions of death.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: PSY 101 and PSY 304. Major theoretical interpretations of learning; the history and development of learning theories; cognitive versus stimulus-response explanations; recent mathematical, neurophysiological, and information-processing models.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: PSY 101 and PSY 311. Dimensions, theories, and empirical findings in psychopathology. Concept of abnormality, problems and schemes of classification, theories of neurosis and psychosis, etiology, and classification and treatment for selected disorders.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: PSY 101 and 3 credit hours of psychology; PSY 411 recommended. Theoretical and empirical literature regarding community mental health. Historical perspectives on the community mental health movement, assessment of psychological dysfunction, levels of evaluating institutional change, consultation, and program evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: PSY 101, and PSY 355. The psychological world of the normal human infant. Primary empirical research and theoretical problems relating to the field of infant development; biological processes of development, prenatal development, birth, characteristics of the neonate, speech and language, cognition and learning, interactions and socialization, sex differences in behavior, theoretical models of early development.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: PSY 101 and PSY 355; PSY 411 recommended. Significant issues and problems related to child psychopathology. Taxonomy of childhood behavior disorders, role of the family, assessment of psychopathology in children, mental retardation, aggressive behavior, poverty and psychopathology, learning disorders, neurosis and psychosis in children, developmental disorders, therapeutic approaches.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Prerequisites: PSY 101 and PSY 355. The psychological effects of developmental delay in infants. Screening, assessment, and intervention of high-risk infants; definition of at-risk and high-risk infants, biological traumas and defects, prenatal traumas, birth and perinatal traumas, psychological crises in infancy, psychological assessment of developmental delay in newborns and infants, early intervention for high-risk infants and their families, psychological issues of parenting the high-risk infant.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: PSY 101 and 3 credit hours of psychology. The brain and nervous, endocrine, and immune systems, and their relationship to animal and human behavior; psychosurgery, physiological basis of language, intelligence, emotion, motivation, learning, sexuality, abnormal behavior, perception, and motor behavior.
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