After completing this course, you will be able to:
- 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 & situation.
- Identify, understand & contrast fundamental psychology perspectives within an historical context; past, present & 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.
- Lesson 1: Introduction to Psychology
- Lesson 2: Research Methods
- Lesson 3: Biopsychology and Neuroscience
- Lesson 4: Learning
- Lesson 5: Memory
- Lesson 6: Development
- Lesson 7: Personality
- Lesson 8: Psychological Disorders
- Lesson 9: Therapy and Treatment
- Lesson 10: Social Psychology
Your final grade will be based on the following breakdown. Please note that each instructor may choose to make modifications.
- Participation/Discussions – 20%
- Lesson Quizzes – 20%
- Assignments/Projects – 30%
- Midterm Exam – 15%
- Final Exam – 15%
