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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the relationship between psychology and the field of Behavioral Medicine. It involves an in-depth study of how psychological factors influence physical illness, and how to prevent these illnesses from a psychological perspective. Specifically, the course considers the process of lessening the course of certain physical illnesses by applying behavioral, cognitive, and social psychological principles. Seeking health care and adhering to medical advice will also be discussed.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers a brief history of testing and assessment. The focus is on the basic procedures necessary for the quantification of measured characteristics and include and includes a study of norms, reliability, and validity in the development of standardized tests.
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews basic principles of motivation, learning, and development as they are related to disorganized behavior, physiological, sociological, and psychological factors in the development of disorganized personalities, the etiology and symptomatology of the major categories of neurosis, psychosis, personality disorders, and organic brain disorders, and methods of treatment and prevention.
Prerequisite:
PSY100 OR PSY101 AND PSY321
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to the basic concepts of Child Psychopathology, the scientific and scholarly study of child and adolescent emotional and behavioral disorders. The course will include a discussion of the etiology, symptomotology, treatment, and prevention of childhood disorders. The distinctions between child and adult pathology and current research trends will also be emphasized.
Prerequisite:
PSY100 OR PSY101 AND PSY321 AND PSY351
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to enhance the students' understanding of various topics that are central to adult development and aging. Lectures and exercises encourage the students to apply learning to everyday life situations. Students will identify, compare and contrast, and critically evaluate major themes in the research of human development (e.g., rationalism, empiricism, maturationism, and constructivism). The course structure stresses diversity of experience and immediate practical application of the knowledge.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers the trends and controversial issues in psychology related to forces in a general culture and examines the philosophical and theoretical views of eminent psychologists and the influence of physical science on methodology in behavioral science.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of complex mental processes and explanatory models of these processes, the relation between affective and associative processes, thinking, problem solving, decision-making, and creativity.
Prerequisite:
PSY100 OR PSY101 AND PSY201 AND PSY202
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3.00 Credits
Students will study historical and contemporary theoretical and research issues in human development. In addition to covering the challenges in developmental research and measurement design, the course will cover major systems and themes in the science of human development.
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed to broaden a student's background in psychological topics through in-depth reading or research in a particular area. It is open to qualified students who wish to contribute an individual research project or theoretical paper under the supervision of a staff member. Subject matter varies depending upon student and faculty interest. May be repeated to a total maximum of six credits.
Prerequisite:
PSY100 OR PSY101 AND PSY201 AND PSY202
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3.00 Credits
This course presents the Psychology major with an opportunity to synthesize the knowledge acquired during the undergraduate course of study.
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