Special attention is given to conditioning approached including analyzing motivation and developing related rewards, eliciting desired responses, and using appropriate response-reward contingencies. This course will focus on developing strategies for counseling adults in life transitions and crises. The course will identify and discuss current research in adult development as well as the application of counseling techniques to this segment of the population. An evaluative survey of various types of psychological and educational instruments encompassing both group and individual tests. The major types focused on include interest inventories, aptitude tests, achievement tests, and intelligence tests.
Theoretical foundations are explored and practical experience given when feasible.
Psychology 581 - Individual Intelligence Testing Training in the theory and use of the major individual measuring instruments of intelligence. The course stresses practical experience in the administration of the Wechsler tests for children and the Stanford-Binet. An evaluative survey of the theory and usage of projective tests of personality, including the Rorschach, the Thematic Apperception Test, and other tests. Under special circumstances the Department may grant one course credit to those students who arrange to receive instruction through field experience in an area of applied psychology under the direction of a qualified preceptor. Such arrangements must be made by the student and must be approved in advance by the Department.