PSYC& 100 - General Psychology

5.0 Credits
Surveys major areas of psychology. Core topics include sensory processes, perception, personality, disorders and treatment, intelligence, research methods, learning, states of consciousness, language, cross-cultural psychology, and applied psychology.

Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Describe the biological basis of behavior including the nervous and endocrine systems. [REASON]
Discuss and compare the major theories of learning. [REASON]
Describe and compare the conceptual models of intelligence, language, and cognition. [REASON]
Identify the major theoretical approaches to personality theory. [REASON]
Describe the experimental method and the basic statistical methods of data analysis. [REASON]
Identify the major sub-fields of Psychology. [REASON]
Compare and discuss the concepts of sensation and perception. [REASON]