22 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.
This course is designed to provide students with skills needed to be successful in the college environment and to enhance self-awareness, interpersonal communication, and decision-making skills.
The course investigates how individuals relate on a personal level. Consideration will be given to verbal and non-verbal communications.
This course will concern itself with psychological phenomena which are basic for understanding human behavior. Topics include history, methods and fields of psychology, learning, motivation, memory, intelligence, emotion, personality and psychological disorders and their treatment.
This course will concern itself with psychological phenomena that are basic for understanding human behavior. Topics include history, methods and fields of psychology, learning, motivation, memory, intelligence, emotion, personality, human development, and psychological disorders and their treatment. The course will involve in-depth study and exploratory learning, essay writing, collaborative activities, and individualized research.
This course will involve study of the aspects of biological, social and cognitive development from the conception and prenatal period through old age and death.
This course explores various theories of physical, cognitive, and social-emotional development from infancy through middle childhood.
Adolescence is considered a distinctive phase of human development in this psychology course. The interaction of biological and psychological variables is examined to provide knowledge of the relationship and the manifestation of behavior attendant thereto which tends to occur during the period of adolescence. Theories advanced by major schools of psychology will be studied as well.
This course is designed to fill the void in knowledge created by the assumption that adulthood is a period of unchanging life, and offers specific information which demonstrates the varying phases that adults experience. It directs students to alter their presumptions and assist them in developing skills to recognize variation in adult behavior as symptomatic of phase changes.
Mental Health focuses on the various forms of adjustment that individuals use to cope with stress, frustration, and pressures. Students will be given an opportunity to improve their coping skills - i.e., dealing with problems in a task-oriented rather than ego-oriented manner. Discussion will be held concerning the use of defenses and secondary gains in the different forms of psychopathology. In Mental Health, humans are viewed holistically as a product of physiological, psychological, social, and cultural factors.
Students will examine the major theoretical counseling orientations and their therapeutic approaches. Specific areas examined include: Psychoanalytic Therapy, Adlerian Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Existential Therapy, Rational-Emotive Therapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Postmodern approaches, and other therapeutic approaches.
This course will focus on the various forms of abnormal behaviors exhibited by individuals. It will inquire into the maladaptive behaviors and problems exhibited by people and current procedures used therapeutically to help people function more fully.
This course presents a broad, integrative overview of group dynamics in a highly interactive format. It is designed to meet the needs of Human Service and other students by introducing them to theory and research findings needed to effectively create and maintain productive groups; and, it helps build skills required to apply that knowledge in real-world situations in the workplace and many other group settings.
An analysis of the major thought systems, schools of psychology, and general theories of social psychology.
Educational Psychology is a course designed to give students an introduction to the psychological principles in education. Learning styles, program, and methods will be explored. Educational implications of research on child development, cognitive science, learning, and teaching will be analyzed.
Biological Basis of Human Behavior is a course designed to give the student a broad knowledge base of neurophysiology. This course will focus on applications of this knowledge base to adaptive and maladaptive human behaviors. The emphasis of this course is on brain structure and function and the neurophysiologic processes fundamental to learning and memory, reward, perception, hunger, thirst, sleep, sexual behavior, emotions, and psychological disorders. This course is designed to meet the needs of Psychology and other Social Science and Human Services students.
This course is an introduction to the biological processes of sensation and perception. The basics of neural anatomy, physiology and psychophysics will be covered. Some rudimentary concepts of how neuronal circuits affect sensory processes will be presented. Topics related to brain development, damage and abnormal functioning will also be discussed in light of modern theories of sensory system malfunction, Mechanisms of sensory processing in human and other mammalian brains will be discussed with some emphasis on human clinical techniques (e.g. magnetic resonance imaging and optical imaging). Three general levels are covered: a) the level of events in the peripheral sensory organ, b) the level of central nervous system, and c) the level of behavioral phenomena and sensory perceptual abilities.
The Psychology in the World of Harry Potter will use the Harry Potter books to examine a variety of topics in psychology. Toics incluse child and adolescent development, personality theory, psychopathology, cognitive behavioral therapy, psychoanalysis, curiosity, grief, racism, power, cooperation, and the nature/nurture controversy. Honors courses include more activities such as essay writing, exploratory learning, research, and collaboration then non-honors focused courses.
This course is designed to provide you with an introduction to personality psychology. Personality psychology is a broad area of study that includes a number of different theories and approaches and it is a rapidly growing field of research. This course introduces you to different perspectives or approaches to studying personality as well as theories, historical background, modern research, and research methods used in the study of personality. This class will provide the opportunity to broaden your understanding of the science of personality and to think critically about the application of personality theory in everyday life.
Research methods in psychology as a course provides a venue for the application of basic research methods in psychology to include research design, data analysis, and interpretation.
Varies Credit Hours This course allows faculty to provide students with additional, timely learning experiences in their area of study. Each course of one to four credits is scheduled when needed with a unique topic, a specific syllabus, appropriate enrollment requirements and prerequisite courses. Up to 12 credits of special studies courses may be applied to a student’s program, insofar as they fit into the program requirements. (A special studies course may be repeated if a different specific topic is offered.) Special studies courses that are later approved as on-going courses in substantially the same form will not be counted toward the 12- credit limit.
Source: Reading Area Community College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
