General Psychology

This course is a survey of the basic principles of psychology. Throughout this course, students will review a variety of issues related to the study of human behavior and how these concepts relate to current research and events.

Selected topics:
  • History of psychology
  • Research methods
  • Learning and memory
  • Social psychology
  • Psychological disorders and therapies

Cognitive Psychology

This course is a survey of the specialized topics related to cognition. Throughout this course, students will learn to appreciate and understand the complex cognitive skills humans use in their every day lives.

Selected topics:
  • History of  cognitive psychology
  • Attention and perception
  • Memory, retrieval, and errors
  • Language and bilingualism
  • Reasoning and decision making

Learning

Research in Psychology
This course is a survey of the specialized topics related to learning. Throughout this course, students will learn various concepts and techniques that will help them understand how we learn everything from fears to new concepts in a class. 

Selected topics:
  • Behaviorist learning theories
  • Social and cognitive learning theories
  • Memory and metacognition
  • Contextual learning theories
  • Motivation and emotion
This course is a deep dive into the world of research! It allows students to pursue answers to various questions about human behavior by helping psychology faculty members conduct research in our psychology lab. 

Possible activities:
  • Data collection, coding, and analysis
  • Presenting research findings
  • Survey construction
  • Project development
  • Article discussions

Research Methods Lab

Statistical Methods
This is a lab course designed to give students experience in performing literature searches, conducting experiments, collecting and analyzing data using SPSS, giving descriptions of psychological research, and writing an APA-style report. 

Selected topics:​
  • Descriptive statistics
  • t-test and ANOVA
  • Correlation and chi-square
  • Data entry and analysis
  • APA style
This is an introductory statistics course. During this course, students learn a number of concepts and analyses that can be applied in a number of fields. The skills gained in this class will allow them to become better consumers of science.

Selected topics:
  • Normal distribution and z-scores
  • Correlation and regression
  • Probability
  • Null hypothesis significance testing
  • Type I and II error