Students discuss and explore, in seminar format, health-related topics such as nutrition, addiction, exercise, life stress, health care delivery systems, alternative medicine, AIDS, health promotion behavior and personality and proneness to disease. Top PSY 340 Research Techniques 2 - 4 hours. The specific area to be covered changes from term to term. Top PSY 350 Principles of Learning and Behavior Modification 4 hours. A study of basic behavior principles and techniques such as operant and respondent conditioning, reinforcement, extinction, discrimination, generalization, stimulus control, escape, avoidance, behavioral management, self-control and reinforcement schedules.
Students learn and apply skills in behavior assessment and modification.
Top PSY 360 Special Topics 2 - 4 hours. A series of directed readings, changing from semester to semester, which affords the student an opportunity to pursue topics of special interest in greater depth by intensive reading, discussion and seminar feedback. Top PSY 365 Cognitive Development 4 hours. The course examines the theories and research in cognitive development from infancy through adolescence. Piagetian, Vygotskian, and Information-Processing Approaches are explored while examining the development of processes including attention, perception, memory, language, and reasoning.