An investigation of the symptoms, etiology, and treatment of mental disorders including those associated with anxiety, moods, psychosis, dissociation, somatoform reactions, personality, substance use, sexual dysfunctional/deviance, eating, aging, child/adolescent development, and brain dysfunction. Students are encouraged to enroll concurrently in PSYCH 232 Abnormal Psychology Practicum.
Prerequisite(s): PSYCH 001 Basic Psychological Science and PSYCH 002 Applied Psychological Science or permission of the instructor.
(Normally offered each semester.)
PSYCH 232 Abnormal Psychology Practicum (1 hours)
A supervised, experiential type of learning in which the student is assigned to an individual or group of residents/outpatients at one of the community mental health facilities. Students prepare weekly written reports and a summary paper at the close of the semester. Students spend 45 hours per semester in the assigned setting for each hour of academic credit.
Pass/Fail only.
Prerequisite(s) or corequisite(s): PSYCH 231 Abnormal Psychology.
(Normally offered each semester.)
PSYCH 001 Basic Psychological Science (3 hours)
Lectures and demonstrations that present psychology as a science of behavior and mental processes. Emphasis is on the topics of scientific methodology, learning, memory, thinking, states of consciousness, language, sensation, perception, motivation, emotion, and the nervous system. Basic Psychological Science and Applied Psychological Science are not sequential. Basic Psychological Science may be taken prior to or following Applied Psychological Science.
(Normally offered each semester.)
PSYCH 002 Applied Psychological Science (3 hours)
Lectures and demonstrations that present psychology as a science of behavior and mental processes. Emphasis is on the topics of scientific methodology, development, intelligence, personality description and assessment, psychopathology, psychotherapy, social psychology, and health psychology. Applied Psychological Science and Basic Psychological Science are not sequential. Applied Psychological Science may be taken prior to or following Basic Psychological Science.
(Normally offered each semester.)