0632 Psychology 12 CSU, UC S
Students are introduced to psychology, with a focus on the scientific study of human development, learning, motivation, and personality. Areas of specific study, including methods, growth and development, mental health, behavioral disorders, and social psychology, build on the knowledge and experience students have acquired in their own lives. Major contributors to the field of psychology are studied, including Freud, Maslow, Pavlov, Erikson, and Skinner. Students will have the opportunity to apply psychological perspective to personal experiences and, thus, to "know thyself." Activities may include meditation, temperament sorters, mneumonics, hemisphere dominance inventory, and creativity quotient puzzles. Upper-division reading, writing, and thinking processes must be utilized in this course. [One Semester] (Prereq: Approval by Department.)