INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY - PSYC 1101 (3 Credit Hours)
Syllabi by Instructor:
Description: A broad survey of the major topics in psychology including, but not limited to, research methodology, biological and social factors influencing behavior, development, learning, memory, and personality.
Prerequisites: None
Course Structure:
- Unit 1 - Introduction & Perspectives
- Unit 2 - Critical Thinking & Methods
- Unit 3 - Neuroscience & Behavior
- Unit 4 - The Nature and Nurture of Behavior
- Unit 5 - Development
- Unit 6 - Sensation & Perception
- Unit 7 - Learning
- Unit 8 - Memory
- Unit 9 - Personality
- Unit 10 - Psychological Disorders
- Unit 11 - Therapy
- Unit 12 - Social Psychology
Course Objectives:
- Apply course content to everyday life – making better decisions; enhancing relationships; increasing self-understanding
- Recognize that human experience & behavior vary as a function of context, culture and situation
- Identify, understand and contrast fundamental psychology perspectives within an historical context; past, present and future trajectory
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the major methods of scientific inquiry
- Understand the relation among mind, body, consciousness, behavior
- Relate the importance of objectivity in scientific inquiry to the inherently subjective nature of human experience