An examination of the methodologies, theories, and research that emphasize the holistic, conscious, and personalistic approaches to Psychology. Topics include peak experiences and emotions, identity and self-expression, free will, ultimate values, altered states of awareness, and suprasensory phenomena. Emphasis on how each theory incorporates such concepts as reinforcement, extinction, motivation, emotion, practice, transfer, forgetting, and problem solving. An investigation of the continuum of cognitive activities from perception to memory and thought processes. Traditional, neo-behavioristic, information processing and computer model approaches to understanding cognition are considered.
Major focus is on the experience of traditional and nontraditional college students.
Includes theory, research, and cases on such topics as identity and intimacy. Includes psychoanalytic, biological and social explanations of women's psychology and development and critical examination of research on gender differences. This course examines the effects of individual behavior on the legal system and the consequences of the existence of a legal system on individual behavior. The readings, work assignments, supervisory sessions, and written product expected are determined by the student, the faculty, and the agency prior to the practicum. May be repeated to a total of 6 credits.