Psychology

This course provides an overview of the field of psychology, including the major theories, principles, and methodologies of psychology. The course surveys the major subfields of psychology, including biological, cognitive, developmental, social, and clinical. Major topics include the brain, consciousness, sensation and perception, learning, motivation, memory, cognition, human development, personality, psychopathology, and the social bases of behavior.

This course emphasizes emergent research and theory exploring the nature of human mental processes. Topics include neuroscience, attention, perception, memory, creativity, decision making, and information processing.

This course introduces the use of univariate statistics for research with human participants. It covers descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include central tendency, variability, and probability, as well as various inferential null-hypothesis testing techniques such as t-tests, analysis of variance, post-hoc tests, correlations, regression, and non-parametric statistics.

This course introduces major topics exploring research procedures and methodology in the behavioral and social sciences. Major topics include principles of the scientific method, fundamental research concepts, terminology, critical evaluation of methodological issues, and best practices for designing psychological testing and research. Differences in qualitative and quantitative methodology, types of data collection, user experiences and design, and reporting results are also explored. Other topics include research ethics and best practices for data management and presentation.

This course emphasizes emergent research and theory exploring the nature of human mental processes. Topics include neuroscience, attention, perception, memory, creativity, decision making, and information processing.

This course will provide an overview of research and theory in social psychology by focusing on concepts including mental processing, attitude formation and change, conflict and aggression, persuasion, and socio-behavioral influences.

This course covers natural human development from conception to early adulthood. The course emphasizes a cultural approach to understanding human biological, psychological, and social development during prenatal, infant, childhood, and adolescent periods.

This course introduces the process of the construction and validation of standardized psychological measures. Topics include how to develop and evaluate individual questions or statements, types of and ways of evaluating test reliability and validity, and factor analysis. Emphasis is placed on practical application.

The content of this course may change each time it is offered. n It is for the purpose of offering a new or specialized course of interest to the faculty and students that is not covered by the courses in the current catalog.