Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
NPEP-0013
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
Estimated 20 hours (self-study)
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 1 Psychology
Description

Objective:

To provide students with the second of a three part series of an introductory level psychology course. The goals of the course are to explore the major psychological approaches to the study of behavior, including their history, contributors, methods, research findings, terminology, and current directions. The course promotes the development of scientific values and skills, recognition of individual bias in experimentation, and the ability to evaluate generalizations and encourage personal development through increased understanding and tolerance of the behavior of others and a curiosity about the forces that make us behave as we do. Students will learn of new research techniques that result in classic findings as well as how to interweave the theme of psychology as a scientific enterprise with that of psychology as a course of knowledge and practice that can improve the quality of life.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Have knowledge of the process of memory as well as the higher mental processes of reasoning, planning, problem solving, judgement making, motivation, and emotion
  • Understand the methods of psychological assessment and the physical differences that exist between man and woman
  • Will be familiar with the states of consciousness as well as the origins of self-identity, self-esteem, and self-conception
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
Supplemental Materials