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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
An overview of fundamental concepts, issues, and methods in community-based research and applied developmental psychology. Students design, implement, analyze data, and write the report of research projects following APA format. Research projects should meet ethical and professional standards so they can be submitted to appropriate conferences. Students become critical consumers of psychological research. Prerequisite: Math 165, PSY 380, or consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces the principles and techniques of qualitative research that are relevant for designing and carrying out psychological research. Topics include phenomenology, action research, grounded theory, and discourse analysis. As a class, we design and conduct a qualitative research project. Prerequisite: PSY 380 or permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Review of psychological research and theory about social justice and intergroup relations. Topics include the ways in which people define fairness and how these definitions shape personal and business relationships, environmental resource allocation, criminal justice practice, and international relations.
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4.00 Credits
Locate and use relevant research and theory to plan, conduct, and interpret the results of a collaboratively designed quantitative research study. Topics include research ethics, experimental design, survey design, and tensions between applied and basic research. Prerequisite: PSY 380 or consent of the instructor. Corequisite: PSY 445L.
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2.00 Credits
Complements PSY 445 by introducing and reviewing the statistical techniques used by psychologists to analyze quantitative data. Prerequisite: PSY 380 or consent of the instructor. Corequisite: PSY 445.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Classical and instrumental conditioning, desensitization, stimulus control and reinforcement, social learning, and cognitive mediation of emotion and behavior. Prerequisite: PSY 250.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
A study of the learning process including major theories of learning and cognition and their application to problem-solving behavior. Topics include types of conditioning, stimulus controls and reinforcement, social learning, and cognitive mediation of emotion and behavior. Prerequisite: PSY 250. Recommended: PSY 306.
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4.00 Credits
Theories and research on cognition from infancy through adulthood. Major theorists include Piaget, Vygotsky, Sternberg, Fischer, Case, Bruner, and informationprocessing perspectives. Special topics include social cognition, theory of mind, concept formation, problem solving, memory, multiple intelligences, standardized testing, language, and cultural variations. Prerequisite: PSY 302 or 410.
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4.00 Credits
A study of the relationship between physiological processes and behavior. Particular emphasis on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system, the effects of metabolic processes, brain lesions, and various drugs on behavior.
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4.00 - 8.00 Credits
A study of the human and mammalian brain, covering nerve cells and how they work, synapses, neurotransmitters, pharmacology, sexuality, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, evolution, neuropathology, sleep, language, left brain and right brain, higher consciousness, and much more. Number of units varies depending upon semester/instructor.
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