Study of how culture and life experience influence and shape the aging process. Students gain an understanding of key issues in cultural variations in aging and an ability to demonstrate this knowledge of their own lives as well as aging services. Presentation and application of basic models of interviewing and counseling in a training atmosphere. Theory and research from current psychological perspectives. Practical application through role playing using audio and video taping.
Students develop basic counseling skills.
Examination of theories and practice of counseling couples and families. Cognition-3 cr. hrs. Examines the higher mental processes of attention, learning, memory, language, concept formation, problem solving, and reasoning. Students will participate in simulations of classic experiments in cognitive psychology. Experimental study of sensation and perception, emphasizing human visual and auditory processes, and the methods of experimental psychology.