Implications for parenting, counseling, pastoring, coaching, and other positions of leadership in the community are also considered. Correspondence work or CLEP tests is not accepted for this teacher education requirement. This course focuses on the interacting processes of physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and moral development within sociocultural contexts, including parent-child relationships and the tasks and transitions associated with developmental stages. Includes an introduction to the observation, measurement, and evaluation of children and adolescents. A study of organizational behavior, selection procedure, performance appraisal, human factors, engineering, and consumer behavior.
Students undertake a significant research project.
An introduction to psychological research, including an understanding of research methodology and statistical techniques. A study of the theories and methods of social interactions in the development of personal and group behavior. Topics include attitudes, communications, prosocial, and anti-social behaviors. This course develops concepts and skills used in the development, selection, administration and interpretation of psychological tests and non-testing means of evaluation. A survey of research and theory in the study of human cognition.