All undergraduate psychology courses begin with the prefix 0501. Course numbers reflect their level. To find out what is being offered any given semester, please visit Adelphi's online Course Search. An introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental life.
Emphasis is placed on research methods and results.
This laboratory course parallels General Psychology and introduces the student to the techniques of gathering and analyzing empirical evidence, and the style of psychological report writing. This course studies human development up to adolescence. Lectures and readings focus on the historical and cultural perspectives on childhood, genetics and environmental health, the evolution- based approach to development, research on infant perception and language development, social development, and abnormal development. Major theorists such as Freud, Kohlberg, Ericson, and Piaget are discussed, with an emphasis on their stage theories of cognitive and personality development. Fundamental principles and procedures of descriptive and inferential statistics are presented, including analysis of variance.