Laboratory, field, or applied research to accompany PSYC 228 Personality Psychology. James, Titchener, Freud, Watson, Kohler, Tolman, Hebb, Piaget, Skinner, and May have offered major statements. We will study their ideas. Analysis of selected topics in developmental psychology, with a different topic offered each year. Discusses the origin, nature and processes underlying atypical development and psychological disorders from a developmental perspective.
Emphasis is placed on the interplay between normative and pathological development.
Behavior modification, biofeedback, cognitive therapy treatments also are considered. Health psychology involves the application of psychological principles to physical health. Topics include health-compromising behaviors, chronic illness, and death and dying. Occasional seminars on selected topics of current interest in psychology. Statistical analysis of experimental and correlational data.