Particular attention will be devoted to cognitive and personality factors, stressing the elements of consistency and change in each. An attempt will be made to separate myth and reality as each area of functioning is discussed. Graduate students will be expected to become involved in an area of research. Contemporary research issues in psychology. Opportunities to consider a particular aspect of research in depth.
Topics vary from year to year depending upon the interests of students.
This course includes a survey of major physical disabilities including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, AIDS, cancer, pain, obesity, eating disorders, and injury using a behavioral medicine orientation. Behavioral medicine represents a multidimensional approach to integrating behavioral and biomedical information in determining disease etiology and in prescribing comprehensive treatment. An analysis of the philosophical and empirical antecedents of modern psychology and the contemporary systems which emerge from these. An overview of the basic concepts of psychological measurements, strategies used to develop psychological tests, important legal and ethical issues in testing and measurement, as well as relevant historical and theoretical perspectives. An advanced study of the philosophy, principles and procedures of applied behavior analysis and a review of selected research.