This course is recommended for all students seeking a theoretical and applicable knowledge of human development. Laboratory studies include noise dosage and monitoring, demonstration of beats and difference tones, responses, and systems of tuning and harmony. This course provides an analysis of the similarities and differences in the behavior, values and roles of American men and women. This courses provides the student with an introduction to statistical methods used in psychology. A detailed survey of methods for conducting field observations, collecting case histories, and performing laboratory research, this course covers experimental design, reliability, validity, and the nature of controls.
Students design and conduct several different types of research projects is included.
This course provides experience in major classes of psychological, scientific, and professional writing, from planning to editing. The focus is on developing effective communication skills. A detailed consideration of learning, memory and human information processing, this course emphasizes recent advances and applications of current theory and methods. This courses is a survey or recent research and theory in cognitive processes concerning the representation, storage, retrieval and interactions of units of thought. It considers adaptability, intelligence and knowledge from an experimental point of view.