Note: Letters in parentheses after
course names refer to course areas: (A)=Applications of Psychology; (B)=Biopsychology;
(C)=Cognitive Processes; (D/S)=Developmental / Social. Courses marked **
should have their content area noted on the required Sponsor Form.
PSYCH 100 Introduction to Psychology
3 hrs, 3 cr. An introduction to the problems, methods and concepts of psychology,
covering a range of topics which characterize the discipline, including
history, methodology and professional ethics, biological foundations, perception,
motivation and emotion, learning, memory and thinking, individual differences,
intelligence, personality, development, behavior disorders and their treatment,
group processes.
PSYCH 140 Psychology of Adjustment
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 100. Styles of adjustment: social interaction;
self-concept and self-esteem: stress management: alienation; failures of
adjustment.
PSYCH 150 Human Development 3
hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 100. Development from conception to death; biological,
physiological, and social factors and their interactions at each stage.
PSYCH 160 Evolution And Behavior
3 hrs, cr. Prereq: PSYCH 100. Aggression, sleep, learning, communication,
emotion, motivation and social behavior in human and other species; underlying
mechanisms, development, evolutionary history.
PSYCH 170 Psychology of Human Sexuality
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 100. Psychological foundations, sexual development
and response patterns: male and female roles; individual and social attitudes,
legal issues.
PSYCH 180 Brain and Behavior 3
hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 100. Brain structure, function, and relation to
behavior. Topics include the neural basis of perception, learning and memory,
consciousness, motivation, emotion.
PSYCH 195 Special Topics in Psychology
I (**) 3 hrs, 3 cr., Prereq: PSYCH 100. Readings and discussions on
a selected problem or topic area. Topics vary from semester to semester.
PSYCH 201 Independent Study in Psychology
(**) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: 6 cr in PSYCH courses and perm instr. May
be applied to major once. This course is designed to meet the needs
of individual students under the direction of a particular faculty sponsor.
The course may involve independent readings, tutorials, work as a peer
counselor, field placement, an individual research project, or participation
in on-going faculty research, any of these culminating in a written report.
PSYCH 210 Child Psychology (D/S)
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: 6 cr in PSYCH courses. Emotional, social, motor,
and cognitive development as influenced by genetic, cultural and individual
factors during the first twelve years of life. (May not be taken for
credit by students who have a collateral major, or a minor, in education.)
PSYCH 212 Psychology of Exceptional
Children (D/S) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 150 or 210 or EDU 209. Special
problems of adjustment and training of exceptional children, including
the gifted, as well as the intellectually, emotionally, and physically
handicapped.
PSYCH 215 Introduction to Research
Methods in Psychology 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: 6 cr. in PSYCH courses.
Evaluation of published research; research principles and the concepts
which underlie them; how to evaluate and select research strategies.
PSYCH 220 Personality (D/S) 3
hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: 6 cr in PSYCH courses. Review of the contributions to
the understanding of normal personality in the theories of the Freudian
and other analytical schools of Allport, of representative behaviorist
groups, and of constitutional typologists; also, methods of assessing and
understanding individual personality.
PSYCH 221 Psychoanalytic Theories
(A, D/S) 3 hrs, 3 cr .Prereq: PSYCH 220. Historical, theoretical, and
empirical approaches from Freud to the present; empirical evaluation and
integration of these theories with learning and ethological theory.
PSYCH 223 Abnormal Psychology (A;
D/S) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: 6 cr in PSYCH courses.Consideration of psychological
abnormalities; symptoms, etiology, diagnostic procedures, and therapy.
PSYCH 225 Ethology-Animal Behavior
(B) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: 6 cr in PSYCH courses or perm instr. Adaptation,
survival, reproduction, and evolution of behavior, emphasizing development
and species-comparison.
PSYCH 230 Social Psychology
(D/S) 3hrs, 3cr. Prereq: 6cr in PSYCH courses
Problems of human experience
and behavior in the social context; theories and current methodology in
research on the influence of the group of cognitive processes, motivation,
personality structure and the self; attitudes and prejudice; leadership;
group processes.
PSYCH 235 The Psychology of Women
(D/S) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: 6 cr in PSYCH courses. Psychological functioning
of women; sexuality, pregnancy, social roles and status, aging, achievement,
life styles, power.
PSYCH 240 Applications of Psychology
(A) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: 6 cr in PSYCH courses. Psychological issues
in business, law, and medicine; consumer research, personnel selection
and training, motivation and morale in industry, safety programs, testimony,
lie detection, and psychological issues in coping with physical illness.
PSYCH 245 History of Psychology
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: 6 cr. in PSYCH courses. Introspective, behavioristic,
gestalt, psychoanalytic, and related viewpoints developed from early philosophic
roots of psychology.
PSYCH 248 Statistical Methods in
Psychological Research 4 hrs, 4 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 100, and minimum
grade of C or CR in STAT 113 or Math 120 (or their equivalent). Analysis
and interpretation of quantified data. Descriptive and inferential statistics
applied to psychological research.
ALL
COURSES NUMBERED ABOVE PSYCH 248 REQUIRE A MINIMUM
GRADE OF C OR CR IN ENGL120.
PSYCH 249 Experimental Psychology:
Social 6 hrs (2 lec. 4 lab), 4 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 248. Introduction
to the principles of research methodology and experimental techniques relevant
to social behavior. Research reports involve laboratory and field exercises
concerned with a variety of social psychological phenomena. (Students
may take either PSYCH 249 or PSYCH 250, but not both).
PSYCH 250 General Experimental Psychology
6 hrs (2 lec, 4 lab), 4 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 248. Research and general experimental
techniques in study of behavior. The laboratory and research reports involve
a variety of behavioral phenomena.(Students may take either PSYCH 249
or PSYCH 250, but not both).
ENGL120,
PSYCH 248 and PSYCH 249 or 250 are prerequisites for all courses
above PSYCH 250.
PSYCH 270 Cognitive Processes (C)
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250. How input is encoded, transformed,
elaborated, stored and retrieved in the human information-processing system,
and how these operations provide the basis for more complex forms of human
behavior; analyses of theoretical issues and research pertaining to memory,
problem solving, language, attention and perception.
PSYCH 290 Sensation and Perception
(B;C) 3 hrs. 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250 Methods, theories, and
empirical data relating to stimulus detection, encoding, and perception
as a function of variables including current stimuli and past history.
PSYCH 295 Special Topics in Psychology
II (**) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250 Readings and discussion
on a selected problem or topic area. Topics will vary from semester to
semester.
PSYCH 300 Physiological Psychology
(B) 3 hrs., 3 cr. Prereq. PSYCH 249 or 250 Neural and endocrine mechanisms
involved in learning, emotion, perception, other and psychological processes.
PSYCH 306 Seminar in Psychological
Services I (A) 8 hrs, 4 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250, PSYCH 223 or
PSYCH 323, and perm instr. An integration of personality and abnormal psychology,
the helping process, and the role of the helper. Seminar and one day per
week placement in mental health/community service setting.
PSYCH 307 Seminar in Psychological
Services II (A) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 306 and perm. instr. Integration
of personality and abnormal psychology. Seminar and one day per week placement
in mental health/community service setting.
PSYCH 309 Sex and Behavior (B;D/S)
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or PSYCH 250 Research and attitudes about
sex-related behavior in human and non-human animals emphasizing evolutionary
and neuroendocrinological processes, and social-psychological processes;
male-female differences and similarities, therapeutic strategy in sex-behavior
pathology, and sexual behavior and the law.
PSYCH 310 Research Methods and Special
Problems in Child Development (D/S) 4 hrs. (2 lec; 2 lab) 3 cr. Prereq:
PSYCH 249 or 250, and PSYCH 150 or 210, and permission of the instructor.
Theory and research in selected areas of child development, with laboratory
exercises in selected problems.
PSYCH 315 Psychological Study of
Adult Development (D/S) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or PSYCH 250
and PSYCH 150 or 210. Theories and research concerning the personal and
social development of men and women in adulthood; on-going changes with
age related to physical growth and decline, including marital, parental,
and interpersonal relationships, occupational roles, leisure activities,
disability, and approaching death.
PSYCH 322 Problems in Psycholinguistics
(C) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250, and PSYCH 270 or perm. instr.
Psychological and psychophysical basis of language comprehension, production,
and acquisition from experimental and theoretical perspectives; the relationship
between language and the cognitive processes of perception, memory, and
representation.
PSYCH 323 Child Psychopathology
(A; D/S) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250, and PSYCH 212 or 223
Survey and evaluation of empirical and theoretical approaches to the major
psychological abnormalities that arise in childhood and adolescence; their
characteristics, causes, and treatments.
PSYCH 327 Motivation (B;C) 3
hrs. 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or PSYCH 250 The problem of how behavior is
initiated, maintained, directed, and terminated. Human and non-human research
evaluated.
PSYCH 328 States of Consciousness
(A, C) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or PSYCH 250 The subjective and
physiological aspects of consciousness; the means by which it may be altered:
hypnosis, dreams, drugs, meditation, and mysticism; psychosis.
PSYCH 340 Industrial and Organizational
Psychology (A) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250 A review of research
and theories of on the effects of leadership, human relations, motivation
and organizational structures on behavior in business and industrial settings;
applications of personnel psychology, motivational psychology, and human
factors engineering in the work place, job analysis, employee selection,
leadership, performance appraisal, power and authority, work motivation,
and organizational communication.
PSYCH 345 Health Psychology (A)
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250. Psychological and behavioral factors
related to physical illness and health promotion, including such areas
as aging, stress and coping, pain, addiction, and eating disorders.
PSYCH 350 Learning Theory (C)
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250. Theoretical and experimental approaches
to human and animal learning; the relationship between systematic theory
models and methodology; analysis of the historical and contemporary major
contributions to learning theories.
PSYCH 361 Psychological Tests (A)
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq PSYCH 249 or 250. Introduction to the principles of
psychological assessment; major methods of measuring general ability, aptitude,
achievement, interest, personality. Appraisal of psychological tests.
PSYCH 369 Drugs and Behavior (B)
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250 and PSYCH 300. Neurochemical substrate
of brain functioning; historical context and social ramifications of drug
use.
PSYCH 370 Psychology of Cognitive
Development (C; D/S) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250 and PSYCH
270. A comparative information processing perspective on the development
of mental structure and functioning, including perception, memory, problem
solving, self-awareness of thinking, intelligence, concept formation and
language development.
PSYCH 380 Microcomputers in Psychological
Research 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250. An introduction to
the fundamentals of microcomputer programming and digital electronics,
including the structure of a computer language (BASIC), digital logic,
interfacing, and computer memory. Students learn to program psychological
experiments, collect data, perform statistical analyses, and control peripheral
devices by microcomputer. Designed for advanced undergraduates.
PSYCH 390 Special Topics in Psychology
III (**) 3hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 and 250 and perm instr. Readings
and discussion on selected problem or topic area. Topics vary from semester
to semester.
PSYCH 395 Independent Research in
Psychology (**) 3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 and 250 and perm instr.
May be applied to the major once. This course is designed to meet
the needs and interests of individual students under the direction of a
particular instructor at a more advanced level than PSYCH 295. Such study
may involve independent reading, tutorials, independent research projects,
or participation in on-going faculty research, any of these culminating
in an APA-Style research report or literature review. **FIELD PLACEMENTS
GENERALLY CANNOT BE GRANTED CREDIT AS PSYCH 395; HOWEVER, SUPERVISED FIELD
PLACEMENT TAKEN IN CONJUNCTION WITH PSYCH 361 (Psychological Tests) WILL
BE GRANTED CREDIT AS PSYCH 395.
PSYCH 396 Honors in Psychology (**)
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250, Psychology GPA 3.5, overall cumulative
GPA 3.00 and perm. instr. Independent, sponsored, empirical research and
seminar. Students are expected to attend the regularly scheduled seminar.
An APA-style research report or its equivalent (to be filed in the Department)
is a requirement of this course. To graduate with Departmental Honors,
the student must receive a grade of A in PSYCH 396. Honors in Psychology
is typically a one-semester course; however, when a PSYCH 396 research
project extends beyond a single semester, the student may (with permission)
register for a second semester as PSYCH 398. If taken, the student must
receive a grade of A in both PSYCH 396 and PSYCH 398 to graduate with Department
Honors.
PSYCH 398 Honors in Psychology (**)
3 hrs, 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 396. Independent sponsored research and seminar.
Attendance at regularly scheduled seminar and research report required.
PSYCH 400 Special Topics in Psychology
IV (**) 3 hrs., 3 cr. Prereq: PSYCH 249 or 250 and perm. instr.
Readings and discussion on selected problem or topic area. Topics vary
from semester to semester.
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