Students must participate in departmental research. Basic concepts of scientific methods as applied to psychological problems. Experiments to familiarize students with application of scientific methodology to study of human psychological processes. Required of all psychology majors. Focuses on stages of human development from infancy through the aging adult.
Emphasis is on various theoretical approaches and the development associated with each stage.
Psychology majors may not take for credit toward major. Theoretical structures including neuron modeling of higher cognitive and experimental processes. Collection, analysis, and interpretation of data. Foundations of the learning process. Classical and instrumental paradigms and variants of each considered in preparation for investigations of complex learning.