Goals include building individual helping skills and self-understanding. Special attention will be given to the study of mentally, physically, emotionally, and socially, handicapped children. Physical, cognitive and psychosocial concerns at each stage of life will be identified and discussed. The interactive nature of development will be stressed. A study of how thought, feeling and behavior of individuals are influenced by other human beings.
Attention is given to differing theoretical perspectives.
Individual visits to community agencies and programs are encouraged. Principles and problems of psychological testing. Junior standing and Psychology 309 or 351. Introduction to basic principles of learning, including such aspects as motivation, reinforcement, and discrimination, with emphasis on data derived from animal behavior. Laboratory research using animals.