Course content will be announced in quarterly course schedule. May be taken three times with different topics. Offered every semester. Emphasis will also be placed upon interpreting analyzed data. Covers methods of research design, data collection, data analysis, and reporting of research findings.
Students conduct empirical research and write reports.
Comprehensive survey of aging - the final developmental period in the lifespan. Topics include methodological issues, theoretical perspectives on aging, changes in cognitive, social, and personality functions, and psychopathology. Keeping human performance limitations in mind, optimal system design will then be discussed. Examination of the development of psychology and its systems of thought as a function of philosophical and scientific antecedents. Covers the principles of drug actions in the nervous system and describes the effects of drugs on behavioral variables, deals with drugs that are used in recreational and clinical settings.