Normally, specification of these courses will occur by either late in the sophomore or early in the junior year. These may be taken more than once for credit, with the permission of the instructor. Please note that Psychology 20 and 25 are pre-requisites to registraring for a thesis. All proposals for honors theses must be submitted to the department chair no later than the ninth week of the spring term of the junior year. The proposal will be evaluated by a department committee and the student will be advised about the acceptability of the proposal.
Further information is available from the department secretary.
The activities and experiences of the human being. Personality and its development, motives, learning and intelligence, and behavior in conflict. The descriptive and inferential statistical procedures used by researchers to explain and analyze their results. Research methods, survey of research on attribution processes, person perception, stereotyping, attraction, persuasion and social influence, and effects of group membership on behavior. This course focuses on the basic research methods used in psychology, introducing the student to research design, data collection procedures, and scientific writing.