Emphasis will be upon the methoological approaches found in artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, cognitive anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, linguistice, and pholosophy. Cross listed with Mathematics and Computer Science, CMPT 290. The Teaching of Psychology Students in this course work with a teacher of a large section of a Psychology course. The work includes record keeping, working on exams and term papers, working with students and teaching. Class discussions include techniques of teaching, motivating students, developing curriculum and ethical issues.
Emphasis is on design and execution of exploratory investigations.
The theoretical, empirical and clinical aspects of health psychology will be presented. The relation of health psychology with other areas of psychology and other scientific disciplines will be discussed. The historical developments of the field, its research methodologies, theoretical models and exemplary interventions will be described. Problems of communication, group dynamics, man-machine relations, pmployee attitudes, accident prevention, industrial job selection techniques, motivation, executive leadership. Commonly used selection tests will be evaluated.