Assistant Professors Aparicio, Mendolia, O'Neil, Sabol, Sufka, and Weed. An introduction to the Department of Psychology, its faculty and courses, with an emphasis on career planning and student development. Required for all psychology majors and recommended for anyone considering psychology as a major. Introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics, including measures of central tendency and variability, correlation, t-tests, and analysis of variance. Some students may want to take Math 115 before enrolling in PSY 202.
Students learn basic research methods used to study brain-behavior relationships.
Laboratory exercises include sheep brain dissection, surgical procedures in rats, and the testing of various behavioral systems in response to physiological challenge. After conducting experiments, students write up their findings. Students conduct experiements to study behavior that occurs in the presence or the implied presence of others and report on their findings. Students conduct a series of animal conditioning experiments and report on the findings. Students perform a number of computer-based experiments and report on their findings.