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definitions of abnormality, classification, philosophical issues, disorders (anxiety, mood), schizophrenia, models of psychopathology, personality disorders, psychological factors & physical illness, psychoactive substance use disorders, sexual disorders, childhood psychopathology, deinstitutionalization, mental illness & mouse traps, references

overview of the contemporary study of personality and its theoretical background, current research and theory on specific personality topics, Examples of topics (personality units, social-environmental determinants of personality, personality development, personality assessment, self-concept and self-esteem, emotion and coping, cultural personality psychology): exam study guides

basic statistics and measurement concepts, statistics in research situations and in everyday
“news clipping” situations: lab & other resources

presented in an experimental psychology context, frequency distributions, measures of central tendency and dispersion, normal curve, correlation, elementary probability theory, hypothesis testing, t test: Labs, Java Demos

perception, communication, learning, memory, decision-making, religion, persuasion, love, lust, hunger, art, fiction, and dreams, how these aspects of the mind develop in children, how they differ across people, how they are wired-up in the brain, how they break down due to illness and injury

psychological aspects of a fulfilling and flourishing life, happiness, self-esteem, empathy, friendship, love, achievement, creativity, music, spirituality, humor: Readings

introduction to psycholinguistics, basic units of language, neuropsychology of language, language development/acquisition, non-human language

central topics in language processing, structure of language, sentence, discourse, morphological processing, storage & access of words in mental dictionary, speech processing, relationship between computational resources available in working memory & language processing mechanism, ambiguity resolution, computational & connectionist models, language & thought, issues in language acquisition, critical period phenomena, acquisition of speech & words, experimental methodologies: readings, course download

fundamental understanding of why people behave crucial to human life, those who understand & can influence behavior of others & themselves can negotiate life with significantly less turmoil & more satisfaction, course provides clues to this understanding which academic psychology have uncovered through scientific method

psychology & science & types of psychologist, statistics & methodology, developmental psychology, Piaget & Alzheimer's, motivation, attributions & optimism, why do we have emotions, personality, stress & conflict, social psychology