9 courses with the subject PSY, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PSY 1500General Psychology3
GE: Social Sciences This course serves as a general introduction to the scientific study of psychology. General principles of human behavior and mental processes, as revealed through various psychological scientific methods of inquiry, are explored. This basic introduction to psychological research allows students to critically evaluate the topics found within the broad discipline of psychology. Topics in this introductory survey include biological foundations of behavior, sensation and perception, learning, motivation, cognition, human development, abnormal behavior, personality theory, and social and health issues as studied by psychologists.
3 credits, GE: Social Sciences This course is an introduction to the field of sport and exercise with an emphasis on basic research methods and theories in the parent discipline of psychology upon which sport specific theories are based. Students learn about implications of theory for recreational athletes, elite athletes, team dynamics, fans, and coaches. Topics of inquiry include the scientific method, motivation, arousal, competition, team dynamics, leadership, communication, imagery, goal setting, self- confidence, concentration, intervention, exercise and well-being, and psychological growth and development.
GE: Mathematics Students study the processes and applications of statistics in the context of social science research. Topics include the study of fractions, decimals, percentages, proportions, probabilities, and conversions among the preceding functions. Students also study the visual representation of data using various graphing techniques, symbolic variables, working with algebraic equations, solving for unknowns, exponents and square roots, correlations, linear regression, analysis of variance, and chi square analysis.
Students learn principles of operant and classical conditioning and applications of these principles in order to help students change behavior in themselves and others. In addition, cognitive-behavioral approaches to emotional and behavioral change in both normal and abnormal behaviors are addressed. Prerequisite:
Social Psychology is the scientific study of how we influence and are influenced by our social environment, which consists of individuals, groups, organizations, and culture. Students acquire an understanding of classic and contemporary work in this field, and explore such topics as aggression, attitude formation and change, social thinking, interpersonal conflict and cooperation, prejudice, friendships and romantic relationships, leadership, social influence, altruism, and conformity. Course topics may also include applications of social SUNY SULLIVAN COURSE CATALOG 123
GE: Social Sciences – Fall Only This course includes study of the mental, emotional and social development of the child through adolescence. The course stresses new modes of understanding and communication between adult and child, and explores gender differences in children's social interactions and approach to the world.
This course provides an examination of major perspectives in personality psychology, including psychodynamic, phenomenological, biological and trait, behavioral, social-cognitive, and interpersonal- sociocultural. Each perspective includes a review of the structure, processes, and development of personality, the methods of inquiry and evidence used in that perspective, and a critical analysis of that perspective. Prerequisite: PSY 1500 General Psychology.
GE: Social Sciences – Spring Only This course emphasizes the scientific inquiry into abnormal psychology while stressing both the depth of human suffering and the social costs associated with this subject. Abnormal psychological conditions are explored through a combination of biological, surface-level and depth-level theoretical perspectives on important facets of the field of abnormal psychology. Issues of assessment, labeling, and how to intervene into the problems associated with abnormal psychological conditions are explored from the same biological, surface and depth perspectives on abnormal functioning and ways of living.
GE: Social Sciences This course explores the scientific inquiry into normal human development, including mental processes and behaviors from conception through the end of life. A life span developmental psychologist's perspective guides this exploration of issues including the physical, cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and social aspects of human development.
