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Course Description:
This course is designed to give you a broad overview of the field of Psychology. Psychology is the science of behavior and mental activity. To do it justice, we will start from the basic units of the nervous system and carry through to the complexities of social and personal cognitions and actions. To better understand the coverage of the course, simply look at the range of issues identified in the course schedule.
Learning Outcomes. When this course is over, you should:
1. Understand the scientific method as it applies to comprehending the behavior and mental processes of humans and other animals.
2. Understand the basic biological processes underlying cognition and behavior, and how those processes interact with the energy provided by the physical world.
3. Understand the complexity of human and animal cognitive activity, and how cognition is related to intelligence, complex social behavior, and performance.
4. Understand the processes of human intellectual, social, and personality development.
5. Understand the mechanisms behind the maintenance and manifestation of normal and pathological mental activity and associated adaptive/maladaptive behaviors.
Required Text:
Feist, G. J, & Rosenberg, E.L., (2014). Psychology, Perspectives and Connections (3rd Edition). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
You will need to access the McGraw-Hill site for this class. The text is available as an eBook when you sign in to McGraw-Hill Connect. (If you wish a hard copy, sometimes one is available from resellers such as Barnes & Noble, Amazon, etc. But the online eBook is cheaper because it is bundled with the other McGraw-Hill teaching aids. If you do purchase the hard copy separately, you will still need to purchase access to Connect (at a reduced price).