An Overview of the field of clinical psychology and roles of clinical psychologists. Techniques of child management and stimulation of children s emotional and intellectual growth. Independent study of topics of mutual interest to student and professor. Student must find a professor to supervise the study before registering. Survey of current theory and research in sensation and perception.
Emphasis is on visual system.
A study of thought and creativity that draws on material from comparative psychology, developmental psychology, artificial intelligence, psycholinguistics, and the history of science. A survey of behavioral, psychological, and physiological research on human sexuality. Topics treated are descriptive statistics, probability theory, hypothesis testing, linear regression, analysis of variance, experimental design, nonparametric and multivariate techniques, and computer applications. The general field of human animal learning including instrumental conditioning, classical conditioning, memory, and transfer. Covers perception in the visual and auditory systems, pattern recognition and attention, features of the three major memory systems, the representation of knowledge in memory, the neurology of memory, language, learning and cognitive development, problem solving and decision making, mechanisms of thought, and other related topics.