An examination of the biological basis of behavior. The biological bases of depression, schizophrenia and drug addiction are also covered. Return to top PSY 3690-Personality Assessment. Focuses on how personality measures are constructed and how scores on these measures are interpreted and used. The strengths and weaknesses of various projective techniques, personality inventories, single-trait measures, IQ tests, behavioral indicators, and physiological measures are reviewed.
Students construct new personality measures and assess their validity and reliability.
P SY 3850 Practicum in Child Development. Students work with pre-school children for eight hours per week at the Purchase Children's Center, located on campus. The academic component of the practicum is coordinated through weekly class meetings that relate the students' experience with children at the Center to issues in child development. This course does not count as one of the Psychology electives for Psychology majors. In order to register, students must get permission of the Director of the Children's Center and of the instructor.