The lab will require both laboratory and field work. After training, art, dance and movement processes will be developed with a group of adults with chronic mental illness. An interdisciplinary inquiry course exploring biopsychosocial expressions of creative process through study of theory and applications to current social issues. Areas for exploration include the creative brain, paradigm shifts, the creativity of change, and specific student interest in creativity through movement, visual arts, improvisation, free writing and dialogue. A course designed to introduce the student to the area of psychological tests and measurements, providing training in the concepts and applications of intelligence tests, personality inventories, and projective techniques, as well as aptitude and interest scales.
Students take, score, interpret and discuss some of the most commonly used psychological tests.
The course will cover interesting aspects of developmental psychology including biosocial, socioemotional and cognitive growth. Current methods, theories and empirical findings on child development will be examined. The course explores how factors such as genetics, culture and parenting influence various dimensions of infancy, childhood and adolescence. The conditions of learning in animals and humans as found in the experimental literature. Usually offered in the fall term.