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Introduction to Psychology (PSYC 201)

Term: 2018-2019 Summer 1 Session

Faculty

Dr. J. Klees

Office Hours

  • Start Date: Aug 5 2018 9:30AM
  • End Date: Aug 5 2018 12:00PM
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  • Weekly Days: Monday Wednesday
  • Note: Office Hours for Fall Semester 2018, Starting August 27th and Ending December 5th


Ungrouped Items:

BS - East Stroudsburg University (Education), 1990
MA - East Stroudsburg University (History), 1991
Ph.D. - Kent State University (History), 1999

Ungrouped Items:

GPDC Distance Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003.

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Description

This course introduces the student to the major ideas, concepts, methods, and principles in contemporary psychology with a special focus on psychology as a science. As a science that examines behavior and mental processes, psychology includes topics such as research methods, neurological bases of behavior, sensing and perceiving the physical world, states of consciousness, learning, emotion and its display, relationships between stress and health, higher cognitive processes such as memory and motivation, development, differing views of personality and its assessment, abnormal behavior and its treatment, social thinking, social influence, and social relations. Meets the Social & Behavioral Science requirement. Prerequisite: R.