Lecture 3 hours, lab 2 hours. This course is equivalent to PS 230, except that PS 231 has no laboratory component. Provides students with an introduction to the psychological processes involved in gaining, representing, transforming, using and storing information about the world. Topics covered include perception, attention, learning, memory, thinking, imaging, language, intelligence, motivation, emotion, and creativity. An overview of human development from conception to death.
Special attention is given to the effects of psychological and social factors on development.
The major theories and principles of social behavior. Topics include the self, social knowledge, interpersonal communication, attraction and love, sexual behavior, aggression, prosocial behavior, prejudice, attitude change, group behavior, and leadership. The major theories of personality, including biological, psychoanalytic, dispositional, behavioral and humanistic theories. Special attention is given to personality consistency and personality change over time and across situations. The biological bases of behavior.