Emphasis is on understanding and evaluating the broader issues of the field, e.g., methodology, assumptions, and basic psychological processes. At the end of the course, students have a solid understanding of the methodology used by cognitive psychologists as well as an understanding of the important theoretical issues surrounding the study of the human brain as an information processing system.
Emphasis is on the principles of conditioning and learning.
Laboratories include research design, presentation, and implementation. Laboratories include comparative neuroanatomy and clinical neurology. A broad survey of the field of social psychology, including such topics as attitude change, interpersonal attraction, person perception and aggression. Emphasis throughout is on the understanding of social phenomena from an empirical, primarily experimental, viewpoint. This course is an examination of emerging adolescent development, both historically and in contemporary society.