Students will be encouraged to explore their own thoughts and feelings about individual differences and deviance. Tests, surveys, interviews as well as other methods of psychological assessment used in clinical, business and counseling settings will be evaluated by class members. Students will be expected to administer and interpret several tests during the semester. Topics include influences upon the development of social and emotional growth, personality, intellectual capacity, and the acquisition and usage of language. The relevance of these topics to parent effectiveness will be stressed.
Main emphases are upon social and emotional changes associated with various stages of adult life.
Crises typically encountered by individuals in their twenties, thirties, forties, etc. are discussed, including shifts in self-concept, sexual desires, attitudes toward life, conceptions of death, etc. Development during the period of old age will be stressed. Cross-listed as GERO 356. The influence of social factors on individual behavior, thoughts and feelings. A survey of industrial psychology.