Course Description
Research in gerontology, with emphasis on learning, personality, attitudes, perception, ability, and adjustment in the aged.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Undergraduates are evaluated by multiple choice tests covering material from a textbook and lectures. Graduate students use the same text but are assigned additional readings; they are evaluated on their comments (written) on each of these readings plus three brief synthesis papers derived from literature that they identify through library research.
Athena Title
Psychology of Aging
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in GRNT 7350, GRNT 7350E
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- By the end of this course, students will have learned about aging research and practice, to obtain a general picture of the contributions of both academic and applied psychology to later life.
- By the end of this course, students will have learned how psychological research translates into practice.
- By the end of this course, students will have learned to evaluate academic research, looking at illustrations of clinical applications of research findings to determine how the abstract content of the psychology of aging can come alive in a concrete way.
- By the end of this course, students will have learned about procedures, biases, and limitations of major studies.
- By the end of this course, students will have learned to evaluate the accuracy of theories and the actual research evidence supporting those theories.
- By the end of this course, students will have learned to question and evaluate future theory, research, and practice in the psychology of aging.
- By the end of this course, students will have learned how abstract theoretical questions have immediate, pressing applications to daily life.
Topical Outline
- Introduction
- Research Methods
- Physiology
- Sensation and Perception
- Learning and Memory
- Intelligence and Creativity
- Personality
- Interpersonal Relationships
- Work and Retirement
- Stress and Coping
- Psychopathology
