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Social Psychology is the scientific study of the manner in which the behavior, thoughts, and feelings of individuals influence, and are influenced by, the behavior and characteristics of others. Topics which are examined in this course include attitudes, person perception, social cognition, liking and friendship, altruism, aggression, conformity, social exchange, and the behavior of individuals in groups.

This course is focused on the various changes that take place in humans from conception to death (e.g., physical-motor, language, cognitive, social). Aspects of development that are common to persons at all ages across the human lifespan as well as individual differences in development will be studied. Descriptions of human development, developmental theory, research, and the relation between research and theory are emphasized equally in this course and will be covered through the text, activities, discussions, and writing.

This Basic Processes course will introduce the student to the biological underpinnings of human behavior. After basic training in the fundamentals of brain anatomy and physiology, the role of the brain and basic biological processes in topics such as development, sensation and perception, reproductive behavior, sleep, learning, emotion, mechanisms of drug effects, and mental disorders will be examined. Methods used to study how the brain works will be introduced.

This Basic Processes course addresses how humans sense the world and perceive, or interpret, those sensations by understanding how sensory systems function-the energy to which they are sensitive, transduction at the sensory organ, and the brain's interpretation of the information carried in the signal after transduction. This course examines research and methodology addressing a variety of sensory systems, including vision, audition, olfaction, taste, and touch.