Topics include the implications of risk factors to developmental outcomes of individuals of these ages. The course focuses on development from early adulthood through late old age for changes in biological, cognitive, social, and personality domains. Emphasis is placed on normative aging processes and issues in successful aging. Topics include issues in marriage, career, parenting, retirement, physical and mental helath, and transitioning into new roles. Concepts and methods of behavior analysis and social learning.
Emphasis is on the procedures associated with respondent and operant conditioning.
A field-based behavior modification experiment is required of all students. The nature and etiology of the various forms of behavior disorder, mental deficiency, and other deviations. Introduction to the nature, study, and conceptualization of personality. Historical and contemporary theoretical perspectives of personality will be critically examined, and applications will be discussed. Univariate and bivariate statistical methods for research in the behavioral sciences.