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4.00 Credits
This introductory course in statistical methodology and analysis includes descriptive statistics such as frequency distributions, central tendency, variability, and correlation as well as an introduction to probability, sampling theory, and tests of significance including the t-test, chi-squared, ANOVA, and non-parametric statistics.This course is open to majors in the behavioral, biological, and physical sciences.The lab complements the course by giving students supervised computation and problem-solving exercises using calculators and computers.Note: this course does not fulfill any core requirements.Four credits.
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3.00 Credits
Building on PY 203 Statistics, this course teaches students to read, evaluate, design, conduct, and report psychological research.The course emphasizes critical thinking and effective oral and written communication.Students work through several different research projects.(Prerequisites: PY 101, PY 203) Four credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the major areas of concern in social psychology, emphasizing current issues and research in the fields of social influence and conformity, human aggression, prejudice, interpersonal attraction, propaganda, and persuasion.Students who have taken PY 148 may not take this course.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
How do we see, hear, touch, taste, and smell What about individual differences This course deals with basic sensory mechanisms and with perceptual processing.Students examine color, depth, pattern, and motion perception and complete an integrative final project.Students may do experiential learning to enrich their understanding of individual differences in sensation and perception.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This advanced course in abnormal behavior offers an in-depth analysis of current research and theories of psychopathology.Building upon the student's knowledge of developmental psychology, the course examines the biological and psychological antecedents of abnormal behavior.The course emphasizes oral and written analysis.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the principles of psychological test construction, administration and interpretation, and reviews the roles that these tests have in a broad clinical assessment and research.Specific evaluation of test reliability and validity are applied to test construction and to various published tests of intelligence, achievement, personality, and neuropsychological functioning.(Prerequisite: PY 101, PY 203/BI 203) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Understanding the brain is one of the last and most challenging frontiers of science.Our brain functioning determines what we see, hear, know, think, or feel.Starting with the molecular and cellular machinery of neurons and the anatomy of the nervous system, the course proceeds through the neural basis of sensation, perception, memory, emotion, language, sexual behavior, drug addiction, depression, schizophrenia, etc.The enormous strides made by neuroscience in the last several decades show every sign of continuing and increasing; this course provides the foundation upon which a thorough understanding of brain-behavior relationships can be built.Note: This course can be used by non-psychology majors to fulfill one of the core natural science requirements.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Using a research-oriented approach, this course focuses on the principal themes, processes, and products of human development from conception through adolescence.Students who have taken PY 163 or PY 264 may not take this course.(Pre-requisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
Although the content of this course is identical to PY 263, it offers psychology majors the opportunity to participate in a laboratory experiential learning component in preschool Head Start classrooms.Specific hands-on assignments complement course material.Students who have taken PY 163 or PY 263 may not take this course. Designated sections meet the U.S. diversity requirement. ( Prerequisite: PY 101) Four credits.
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3.00 Credits
CL&ABA focuses on the environmental determinants of behavior and behavior change.The first two-thirds of the course highlight current concepts and research in Pavlovian and operant conditioning, reinforcement, discrimination, extinction, punishment, avoidance learning, etc.The remaining third of the course emphasizes applied behavior analysis (a.k.a.behavior modification) that is, how these learning concepts and principles can be successfully applied to education, parenting, therapy, medicine, and everyday life.During this part, which is run seminar style, each student makes a PowerPoint presentation of one aspect of ABA, from methods to the ethics.(Prerequisite: PY 101) Three credits.
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