Prerequisites:  None
Offered:   Spring
Description:  Comprehensive introduction to psychology as a behavioral science through a survey of historical, empirical, and theoretical perspectives of psychological research. Topics may include biological bases of behavior, development, learning, personality, cognition, perception, motivation, behavior disorders, and social psychology. Students must either participate in research projects or write summaries of published research articles.

 

 

Psychology 111 and a course in mathematics.
Offered:  Fall, and Spring
Description of 201:  Introduction to the principles of science, research design, data collection with aimals and humans, statistical analysis, and scientific writing.. Designed to acquaint students with the scietific methods used to study behavior; covers the fundamental methodological, statistical, and writing skills necessary for most advanced psychology courses. lab work, computer analysis of data, and written reports of laboratory projects are integral to the course. 4 credits

Description of 202: Continuation of first research methods and statistics course. Introduction to the principles of science, research design, data collection with animals and humans, statistical analysis, and scientific writing. Designed to acquaint students with the scientific methods used to study behaviour; covers the fundamental methodological, statistical, and writing skills necessary for most advanced psychology courses. lab work, computer analysis of data, and written reports of laboratory projects are integral to the course. 4 credits

SPSS Tutorial for an introduction to SPSS and basic statistical procedures

Prerequisites:  Psychology 111 and 201.
Offered:  Spring
Description:  Examination of the research and theories of human memory and cognition. Topics include perception, attention, encoding and retrieval processes, forgetting, the nature of long-term memory, and decision-making. Experimental approaches to studying these topics will be discussed. Lab projects focus on ecperimental methods for studying cognitive processes. 4 credits

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