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Psychology Courses
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101 General Psychology (5)
Introduction to psychology. Survey of topics in experimental and clinical psychology including physiological bases of behavior, sensation, perception, learning, memory, human development, social processes, personality, and abnormal behavior. |
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120 Elementary Statistical Reasoning (4)
Prereq: Math placement or level I or MATH 101 or 102. Introduction to research methodology and descriptive and inferential statistics, emphasizing the development of practical reasoning skills necessary for the comprehension and critical evaluation of statistical information typically encountered in everyday life. No credit for both 120 and any of the following: MATH 250, MATH 250B, MATH 251, PSY 121. No credit if already credit for PSY 221 or QBA 201; no credit toward psychology major. |
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190 Workshop in Applied Psychology (1 - 2, max 5)
Workshops on specific topics in applied psychology, offered yearly, carrying predetermined alphabetical designations (e.g., 190A). Students seeking academic credit must complete satisfactorily written project determined by instructor. Graded credit/no credit. |
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201 Sensation and Perception (4)
Prereq: 101. Sensory and perceptual processes in vision, audition, somesthesis, gustation, olfaction, and kinesthesis. Theory and research on perceptual phenomena with an emphasis on visual and auditory modalities, including perception of objects, space, and events; effects of person variables on perception; perceptual development. |
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203 Learning (4)
Prereq: 101 and 120 or 221. Experimental investigation of classical and instrumental conditioning, discrimination learning, generalization, related phenomena. |
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221 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (5)
Prereq: MATH 113 or math placement level 2 or higher. Introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics with emphasis on inferential statistics. No credit for both 221 and any of the following: MATH 251, PSY 121, QBA 201. |
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226 Research Methods in Psychology (4)
Prereq: 101 and 221. Training in scientific methods and techniques of modern experimental psychology with individual reports of experiments. |
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233 Psychology of Personality (4)
Prereq: 101. Development and organization of personality, with evaluation of major theoretical viewpoints; research on personality structure, dynamics, and change. No credit awarded if PSY 334J has been taken. |
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261 Survey of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (4)
Prereq: 101 and 120 or 221 or QBA 201. Survey of industrial and organizational psychology; emphasis on application of psychological theories and research to organizational situation. |
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273 Child and Adolescent Psychology (4)
Prereq: 101. Behavior from infancy through adolescence. No credit awarded if HCCF 160 or EDEL 200 has been taken. Will not count toward requirements for Education majors. |
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275 Educational Psychology (4)
Prereq: 101. Application of psychological theories and models to educational settings (emphasis on schools). Major topics include goals of education; cognitive, social, and affective development in children; cognitive and behavioral models of learning; motivation; individual differences; effects of social class, ethnicity, gender, and cultural deprivation on learning and development; tests and evaluation. Emphasis is on the role of teachers and parents as facilitators of learning and development. No credit awarded if EDCI 275 has been taken. |
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304 Human Learning and Cognitive Processes (4)
Prereq: 12 hrs PSY including 101 and 221. Theoretical and experimental investigations of learning in human beings; concept learning, problem solving, memory, motor skills, and language. |
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305 Human Memory (4)
Prereq: 12 hrs PSY including 101 and 226. Structure and processes of human memory, including historical models of memory, contemporary theories of memory, techniques used in memory experimentation, memory stores, memory codes, mnemonic devices, memory failures, neurological basis of memory and memory failures, and computer models of memory. |
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307 Psycholingistics (4)
Prereq: 9 hrs PSY including 101 or perm. How people produce, understand, and acquire language; psychological and linguistic theories. Emphasis on use of language. |
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308 Human Judgment and Decision Making (4)
Prereq: 226. Descriptive and prescriptive models of human judgment and decision making. Topics include how people understand uncertainty, and how they learn the relationships that enable them to make predictions, make decisions when the outcomes of these decisions are uncertain, and perceive risks. No credit awarded if MGT 430 has been taken. |
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310 Motivation (4)
Prereq: 12 hrs PSY including 101. Survey of theories of motivation, with emphasis on human motivation. |
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312 Physiological Psychology (4)
Prereq: 101. Physiological mechanisms involved in perception, movement, motivation, learning, emotions, and mental disorders. Anatomy, physiology, and chemical activities of cells in the nervous and endocrine systems. Research approaches for studying interactions between physiology and behavior. |
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314 Comparative Psychology (5)
Prereq: 9 hrs PSY including 101. Behavior of animals across phylo-genetic scale. Interaction of genetics, hormones, learning, etc., in development of behavior. Lecture, lab, field trips, and naturalistic movies. |
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315 Behavior Genetics and Individual Differences (5)
Prereq: 9 hrs PSY including 101. Extensive survey of individual differences and their relationship to genetic factors. Topics include chromosomal abnormalities, inborn errors of metabolism, genetic and prenatal screening, behaviors in infants, genetics and intellectual differences, psychopathology and genetics, racial differences, and continuing evolution of behavior. |
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321 Advanced Statistics for the Behavioral
Sciences (5)
Prereq: 101 and 221 (226 recommended). Continuation of 221 statistical techniques through multifactor analysis of variance and post-tests. Integration of experimental design with statistical analysis. Does not apply to Arts and Sciences social sciences or natural sciences requirement. |
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327 Human Psychophysiology (4)
Prereq: 101 and 102 or 221. Relationships between psychological variables and physiological events in humans. Measures of cardiovascular, electrodermal, muscle, respiratory, and central nervous system activity; recording techniques; research findings; and applications such as biofeedback and lie detection. |
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332 Abnormal Psychology (4)
Prereq: 9 hrs PSY including 101, Natural and built environments as factors of human behavior, cognition, and choice. Research concerning environmental design and evaluation from psychological standpoint emphasized. |
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335 Environmental Psychology (5)
Prereq: 9 hrs PSY including 101. Natural and built environments as factors of human behavior, cognition, and choice. Research concerning environmental design and evaluation from psychological standpoint emphasized. |
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336 Social Psychology (4)
Prereq: 101 and 120 or 221. Theory and research on the ways that people think about, influence, and relate to one another. Specific topics include attitudes and behavior, social perception and cognition, conformity, persuasion, group influence, aggression, attraction, and helping behavior. |
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337 Social Psychology of Justice (4)
Prereq: 9 hrs PSY including 101 (336 recommended). Theory and research on the interface of psychology and the legal system (with an emphasis on social psychology). Specific topics include dilemmas faced by psychologists in the legal system; legality vs. morality; the socialization, training, and ethics of lawyers and police; perception memory and error in eyewitness testimony; hypnosis; lie detection and confessions; rights of victims and accused; rape and rapists; arrest and trial; jury selection; jury dynamics and deliberations; insanity and the prediction of dangerousness; sentencing; death penalty, rights of special groups; theories of crime. |
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341 Tests and Measurements (4)
Prereq: 12 hrs PSY including 101 and 221. Tests, psychophysical methods, scaling techniques, and questionnaires. Basic criteria including reliability, homogeneity, and validity. |
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351 Introduction to Clinical and Counseling Psychology (4)
Prereq: 12 hrs PSY including 101 and 332. Diagnostic and remedial procedures and resources; professional problems, duties, skills, and interprofessional relationships. |
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361 Advanced Organizational Psychology (4)
Prereq: 261. Study of behavior in organizations with emphasis on applying psychological research and principles to understanding structure and process of (primarily work) organizations. |
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362 Personnel Psychology (4)
Prereq: 261. In-depth coverage of topics in personnel psychology including job analysis, organizational entry, and training and evaluation of personnel. |
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374 Psychology of Adulthood and Aging (4)
Prereq: 9 hrs PSY including 101 (273 recommended). Behavioral change and continuity over adult years through old age. Emphasis on interaction of psychological, sociolcultural, and biological variables as they contribute to behaviors of aging individual from perspective of developmental framework. |
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376 Psychological Disorders of Childhood (4)
Prereq: 101 and 273 or HCCF 160 or EDEL 200. Characteristics, etiology, and treatment of abnormal child behavior: developmental anxiety, depressive eating, hyperactivity, conduct, and psychophysiological disorders. |
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378 Psychology of Gender (4)
Prereq: 9 hrs PSY including 101. Sex differences in physical characteristics, abilities, personality, and social behavior; development of sex roles; sex roles across the life span; relationships of sex, gender, and sex roles to interpersonal functioning, work and psychological disorders. |
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380 Psychology of Health and Illness (4)
Prereq: 12 hrs PSY including 101. Theory and research on the psychological aspects of physical health and illness; interrelationships of behavior, emotion, stress, lifestyle, and illness; psychological factors in disorders such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, headache, asthma, and immune disorders; applications and effectiveness of psychological interventions. |
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390 Research in Psychology (1 - 5, max 15)
Prereq: 226 and written perm. Supervised independent research on predefined problem. Graded credit/no credit. |
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418 History and Systems of Psychology (4)
Prereq: 20 hours PSY. Comparative, historical review of major conceptual orientation in psychology within last century. Includes analysis of important philosophy of science issues bearing on psychology, such as nature of theory, observation, explanation, and some specialized topics especially pertinent to psychology. |
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430 Psychoactive Drugs: Therapeutic Agents and Drugs of Abuse (4)
Prereq: 312 or 332 or 376 or BIOS 171. Patterns of use and abuse of psychoactive agents, behavioral and physiological effects of drugs; etiological factors in drug abuse; treatment of mental disorders; comparative effectiveness and integration of pharmacological and psychological interventions; research methods and problems in conducting research. |
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470 Prenatal Influences on Development (4)
Prereq: PSY 273 or EDEL 200 or HCCF 160; and PSY 312 or 1 biology course. Prenatal and perinatal influences on development, including the effects of genetic errors, drugs, nutrition, diseases, maternal behaviors, prematurity, and birthing techniques. |
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489 Fieldwork in Psychology (1 - 5, max 5)
Prereq: written perm. Independent fieldwork as volunteer or employee in work directly related to psychology. Arrangements for course credit must be approved by psychology faculty member before fieldwork begins. Contact
Dr. Frank LoSchiavo, Dr. Poling, or Dr. Mark Shatz to complete the necessary
FORMS. Graded credit/no credit.
ON THE ZANESVILLE CAMPUS, ALL FIELDWORK
ARRANGEMENTS MUST BE MADE PRIOR TO THE BEGINNING OF THE QUARTER IN WHICH
THE PLACEMENT WILL BEGIN. |
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490 Seminars in Psychology (3 - 5)
Prereq: dependent on seminar; perm required. Several seminars on specific topics in psychology offered yearly, carrying predetermined alphabetical designation (e.g., 490A). See Schedule of Classes for topics each quarter. |
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491 Special Problems in Psychology (1 - 15)
Prereq: written perm. Independent work on special problem with any psychology professor. |
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492X Special Problems - Psychology (1 - 15)
Prereq: Study Abroad Program, perm. |
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496H Psychology Honors Seminar (3 - 5)
Prereq: perm, admission to departmental honors program. Seminar on specific topics. See Schedule of Classes each quarter. |
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497H Readings in Honors Work (1 - 4, max 10)
Prereq: perm. |
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498H Honors Work in psychology (1 - 4, max 10)
Prereq: perm. Preparation for 499H |
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499H Honors Work in psychology (Thesis) (3 - 7, max 15)
Prereq: perm. |
