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Ronald Boothe
TPSYCH 100
Tacoma Campus
Surveys major areas of psychological science, including human social behavior, personality, psychological disorders and treatment, learning, memory, human development, biological influences, and research methods. Related topics may include sensation, perception, states of consciousness, thinking, intelligence, language, motivation, emotion, stress and health, cross-cultural psychology, and applied psychology. Offered: AWS.
Class description
The scientific discipline of psychology is concerned with trying to understand the behavior of humans and other animals. As the semester progresses you will learn about mental faculties such as perceiving, thinking, feeling, learning, remembering, and attaining consciousness and other states of awareness. The course will also be concerned with what motivates behavior and with trying to understand enduring psychological traits such as intelligence and personality. Developmental changes in behavior over the lifespan will also be considered. Near the end of the course, psychological disorders and the scientific bases for treatment and therapy will be discussed.
All of these topics will be examined from the perspectives of a variety of theoretical approaches that have been adopted by psychologists. For example, some psychologists put a primary emphasis on searching for the biological bases of behavior, while others emphasize various kinds of environmental influences on behavior, including social and cultural influences.
Student learning goals
At the end of this course you should have a basic understanding of psychology’s fundamental concepts, methods, and empirical findings.
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