PSYC-121 - Introduction to Psychology II - 3.00 Credits

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to: 

• the major areas of psychology and an understanding of specific, critical thinking approach to the study of human behavior;


• knowledge of the concepts, theories, methods, terminology and research findings appropriate to the field of psychology;


• acquire a facility to analyze, interpret, evaluate and understand such phenomena as sensation, perception, states of consciousness, learning, memory, intelligence, cognition, and language;


• acquire an increased understanding of what the profession of psychology is about;


• introduction to spiritual concepts of self from Indigenous world view perspective;


• an increased facility for understanding, tolerating, and/or changing the thoughts and behavior of other people;


• gain an enhanced level of competency in perceiving, analyzing and evaluation of circumstances;


• acquire an increased facility for understanding an Indigenous world view perspective;


• basic issues and methodology of development psychology;


• motivation in terms of inborn and learned determinants;


• motivation and its relationship to physiology and emotion;


• theories of emotion;


• personality theory and assessment;


• the relationship between stress, health and disease;


• perspectives on causes and treatment of psychological disorders;


• insight, behavioral, conformity, obedience, and compliance, prejudice, and aggression; and


• First Nations psychological perspective.