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| Course ID: | PSYC 1101. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Elementary Psychology | Course
Description: | The phenomena, laws, theories, and history of psychology. Topics include animal and human learning, motivation, perception, individual differences, social behavior, and biopsychology. Emphasis is on fundamental principles rather than on application. Students are given the opportunity to participate in ongoing research. | | Oasis Title: | Elementary Psychology | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in PSYC 1030H, PSYC 1101E | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | By the end if this course, students should have learned:
1. About the broad outlines of psychology as a formal discipline
2. About important topics within the field of psychology
3. To think critically about the facts of psychology
4. To explore the ways in which theories are developed, accepted and discarded
5. To develop a set of broad ideas on what shapes our own behavior and experience
6. To improve the ability to evaluate the many | | Topical Outline: | 1. Orientation to course
2. Introducing psychology
3. Research methods
4. Psychobiology
5. Sensation
6. Perception
7. Learning
8. Memory
9. Cognition and language
10. Consciousness
11. Intelligence
12. Motivation and emotion
13. Development
14. Health and stress
15. Personality
16. Psychological disorders
17. Psychotherapy
18. Social psychology | |
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