Psychology (PSYC) - For a syllabus or more detailed course information, please contact the department at 610-758-5073.

 

Course Listings

 Course#        Course Title (Credit Hours)                          CRN     Day/Time        Location   Session  Instructor

1-010 Intro. to Psychology (4) 20343 M-Th 10-11:35am CU 222 First Barrett
1-011 Intro. to Psychology (4) 20467 M-Th 10-11:35am MG 102 Second Eye
107-010 Child Development (4) 20345 M-Th 10-11:35am CU 222 Second Allen
109-010 Adulthood and Aging (4) 20468 M-Th 10-11:35am DR 209 First Hyland
110-010 Statistical Analysis of Behavioral Data (4) 20470 M-Th 8-9:35am CU 247 First Zhu
117-010 Cognitive Psychology (4) 20051 M-Th 2-3:35pm MG 111 First Frazer
121-010/SSP 121-010 Social Psychology (4) 20347 M-Th 12-1:35pm MG 260 Second Gelety
153-010/SSP 153-010 Personality (4) 20471 M-Th 12-1:35pm MG 111 First Gill
160-010 Independent Study (1-3) 20356 Hours arranged   First Staff
160-011 Independent Study (1-3) 20473 Hours arranged   Second Staff
161-010 Supervised Research (1-3) 20357 Hours arranged   First Staff
161-011 Supervised Research (1-3) 20474 Hours arranged   Second Staff
161-012 Supervised Research (1-3) 20686 Hours arranged   Full Staff
176-010 Mind and Brain (4) 20352 M-Th 2-3:35pm MG 111 Second Weaver
313-010 Person Perception (4) 20358 M-Th 12-1:35pm CU 222 Second Ignarri
314-010 Social Cognition/Social Action (4) 20475 M-Th 12-1:35pm CU 222 First Andreychik
367-010 Clinical Psychology (4) 20479 T/Th 6-9:00pm MG 111 First Lomauro
393-010 Independent Research (1-3) 20360 Hours arranged   First Staff
393-011 Independent Research (1-3) 20480 Hours arranged   Second Staff
460-010 Special Study (1-6) 20153 Hours arranged   Full Staff
461-010 Research Seminar (1-6) 20154 Hours arranged   Full Staff

 

Course Descriptions

1. Introduction to Psychology: Psychology as a science of behavior. Natural science aspects such as learning, sensation-perception, and physiological bases; and social science aspects such as human development, intelligence, and personality. Methodologies appropriate to these areas, and related societal problems. SS

107. Child Development: Survey of theories and research concerning perceptual, cognitive, social, and personality development through infancy and childhood. Prerequisite: PSYC 1 or SSP 1. May not be taken pass/fail. SS

109.  Adulthood & Aging:  Social science approaches to the latter two-thirds of life. Cognitive and personality development; attitudes toward aging; social behavior of older adults; widowhood; retirement. Prerequisite: PSYC 1 or SSP 1. May not be taken
pass/fail.
SS

110. Statistical Analysis of Behavioral Data: Principles of experimental design and statistical analysis: characteristics of data and data collection; descriptive statistics; hypothesis testing theory and practice; correlation, chi-square, t-test, analysis of variance. Three hours lecture and one hour computer lab. ND

117.  Cognitive Psychology:  The architecture and dynamics of the human mind: How we acquire knowledge through perception, represent and activate it in memory, and use it to communicate, make decisions, solve problems, and reason creatively.  Prerequisite: PSYC 1 or COGS 7. May not be taken pass/fail. SS

 121/SSP 121. Social Psychology: Theories, methods of investigation, and results of research on the way social and psychological processes interact with human behavioral settings. Topics include analysis of self and relationships, dynamics of small groups, attitudes and persuasion, prejudice, prosocial and antisocial behavior. Prerequisite: ANTH 1, ANTH 11, SSP1 or PSYC 1. SS

153/SSP 153. Personality: Review and critique of theories of personality and their associated systems of psychotherapy. May not be taken pass/fail. Prerequisite: PSYC 1 or SSP 1. SS

160. Independent Study: Readings on topics selected in consultation with a staff member. Prerequisites: PSYC 1 or consent of the department chair. May be repeated for credit. SS

161. Supervised Research: Apprenticeship in ongoing faculty research program. Literature review, experimental design, data collection and analysis, and professional writing under faculty sponsor supervision, May be repeated for a maximum of six credits. Prerequisites: PSYC 1 or COGS 7 and consent of sponsor SS

176.  Mind & Brain:  Perception and cognitive neuroscience as the link between mental processes and their biological bases. Visual and auditory perception; the control of action; neuropsychological syndromes of perception, language,
memory and thought; neural network (connectionist) models of mental processes. Prerequisite: PSYC 1 or COGS 7. May not be taken pass/fail. NS

313.  Person Perception:  Psychological processes involved in forming impressions of others. Survey of the factors that influence the way in which we think about the people who make up our social environment and of the laboratory methods with which experimental social psychology investigates person perception. The emphasis is on demonstrating the joint impact of the behaviors performed by others and the biases/expectancies that we bring into the social setting. Prerequisites: PSYC/SSP 153 or SSP/PSYC 121. Advanced Psychology Seminar.  SS

314:  Social Cognition:  Examines the cognitive processes through which people make sense of social groups, individual others, themselves, and the world. Topics include judgment and decision making, attitudes and persuasion, ordinary personology,
stereotyping and prejudice, and the self. Prerequisite: Psyc 110 or SR 111. (Advanced Psychology Seminar) SS

351.  Cognitive Development: Covers Piaget, Vygotsky, and contemporary theoretical perspectives on cognitive development as well as current research in areas such as memory, conceptual understanding of biological and physical concepts, mathematics, problem-solving and literacy. The implications of research in cognitive development for instructional practices will be discussed. Prerequisite: Psyc 107, 117, or COGS 7. (Advanced Psychology Seminar) SS

367. Clinical Psychology: The science and profession of helping people overcome psychological problems. Theories of human personality and abnormality in relation to techniques for assessing and treating psychosocial problems and in the light of empirical evidence of validity and effectiveness. Professional issues are also covered. Prerequisites: PSYC 153 and PSYC 305 or consent of instructor. SS

393. Independent Research: Individual research projects designed and executed in collaboration with faculty sponsor. Regular meetings with sponsor to give progress reports and receive feedback. Student reads relevant literature and writes report in APA format. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. Prerequisite: PSYC 210 or 161 and consent of sponsor. ND

460. Special Study: Study of some special topic not covered in the regular course offerings. May be repeated for credit.

461. Research Seminar: Original research designed and executed in collaboration with the faculty. May be repeated for credit.