Health Psychology Inquiries into human physiological response patterns to such processes as thinking, emotion, and stress. Electroencephalographic, neuromuscular, glandular, and dermal responses will be studied. Students will develop original research topics related to the investigation and treatment of psychophysiological disorders. Biofeedback theory and use will also be treated. The course surveys the major topics and theories of social psychology, such as social perception, attitudes, altruistic behavior, aggression, attraction, social cognition, as well as applied areas of social psychology and the legal system and social psychology of health behavior.
Special emphasis is placed on original research and recent developments in the field.
Environmental Psychology Empirical study of nonverbal behavior and interaction between man and his environment, focusing on individual and social behavior in factitious environments. This is a perspectives course in that students examine work and organizational behavior from psychological, business science, and sociological viewpoints. The format is lectures combined with brief weekly presentations of student team analyses of the readings. The final section of the course examines issues of sex roles and sex differences that occur in the workplace. Personality Discussion of the major approaches to personality, from the psychodynamic approach of Freud to the contemporary cognitive approaches of Kelly, Bandura, and Mischel.