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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
The course offers an upper level analysis, discussion, and laboratory experiences concerning classical and contemporary issues and topics in learning and behavior control. Operant vs. respondent conditioning, biofeedback, verbal learning, motor skills learning, learning vs. performances, trial and error vs. insight, reinforcement vs. feedback, punishment and aversive control, memory, and knowledge are considered.
Prerequisite:
PSY100 OR PSY101 AND PSY201
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on cross-cultural applicability of psychological principles. Emphasis will be made on identifying similarities and differences in human behavior across cultures around the world. Approaches to cross-cultural research in psychology and psychological effects of acculturation, ethnocentricism, culture shock, and cultural-relativism will be explored.
Prerequisite:
PSY100 OR PSY101
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to examine the influences of culture on psychological problems, interpretation of the problems, and therapy used to address the problems. Students will learn basic principles of behavior therapy, and then observe and apply these principles. Students will study major theories of cross-cultural psychology and consider the impact of culture on behavior and use those frameworks to actively compare the differences in cultures as they relate to attitudes and practices related to therapy.
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0.00 Credits
This course is a study of the relations of behavior of organisms to their physiological processes. In addition to the characteristic modes of functioning and the complexity of the human nervous system, it includes a study of how such diverse events as ontogenetic development, brain lesions, stress, and sensory deprivation or enrichment affect behavior. A series of laboratory exercises is employed in order to aid the student in developing a more thorough understanding of the field.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide fundamental knowledge of how medications are used to treat a variety of psychological disorders and some neurodegenerative diseases. Emphasis is placed on how therapeutic drugs act within the nervous system, clinical studies examining the efficacy of these drugs, how these drugs are used in combination with psychotherapy, and the potential side effects of these drugs.
Prerequisite:
PSY100 OR PSY101 AND PSY321 AND BIOL111
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4.00 Credits
This course offers analysis, discussion, and laboratory experiences in animal and human behavior. It places human behavior in phylogenetic perspective. The behaviors of various animals are studied with emphasis on the behavioral similarities and differences among animals and with respect to humans to gain an understanding of their behavioral roots and capacities. Laboratory exercises will consist of behavioral observations and follow-up reports of animal behaviors in semi-natural and laboratory environments.
Prerequisite:
PSY100 OR PSY101 AND PSY201
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the biological bases and physiological correlates of behavior, emphasizing contemporary views relating the nervous system, behavior and bodily processes, structure, function and organization of the nervous system are examined in relation to bother human and non-human animal behavior. Topics include neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry. Emphasis is placed on the brain, behavior and mental processes.
Prerequisite:
PSY100
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the biological bases and physiological correlates of behavior, emphasizing contemporary views relating the nervous system, behavior and bodily processes, structure, function and organization of the nervous system are examined in relation to bother human and non-human animal behavior. Topics include neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry. Emphasis is placed on the brain, behavior and mental processes.
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3.00 Credits
This is designed to provide an in-depth examination of selected areas within social psychology. Topics may include conformity, social cognition, persuasion, self-justification, human aggression, interpersonal relationships, and prejudice. Emphasis is placed on the understanding, development, and application of social psychological research.
Prerequisite:
PSY100 OR PSY101 OR PSY220 AND PSY201
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on a discussion of theories that have contributed significantly to current concepts of personality with emphasis on the diversity of views and techniques (from psychoanalysis to cognitive behaviorism) that characterize the field. The relationship of personality theory to assumptions about the nature of man will be noted.
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