This course is designed to provide a basic introduction to the field of psychological assessment. Theories, methods, applications, and limitations of assessment in the areas of intelligence, interest, aptitude, personality, and psychopathology are included, as well as problems of test administration, construction and evaluation. As part of the course, students will be afforded direct experience with many well-known psychological assessment methods. An introduction to the study of animal behavior integrating classic and recent work in psychology, animal learning, zoology, neurobiology, physiology, and behavioral ecology. Evolutionary theory is used as an organizing framework for comparing behavior patterns in humans and other species.
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of how people acquire and use information.
The course emphasizes major theories in the field and the experimental investigation of such topics as pattern recognition, attention, personal representation, memory, problem solving, reasoning and language. An experimental-theoretical approach to processing of sensory information and perceptual phenomena. The research questions, methods, and findings from basic sensory processes to complex cognitive processes are discussed. Major emphasis is on the visual and auditory systems. Practical applications are considered.