Undergraduate at
Portland State University
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BSc Psychology degree is a 4 year long 180 credit program at Portland State University. It is a comprehensive program that answers to improve lives and address cultural issues. The exploration technique at Portland State utilizes science to produce information that aides activity and edges approach in the unique circumstances and settings of the day by day life. Giving students hands-on opportunities through inquiries to neighborhoods, organizations and non-profits, schools and families who are assorted in ethnicity, class, sex, culture, age, and disabled status. This makes science that is frequently community-oriented with different specialists broadly and universally as well as with individuals in the settings where they live and work. Through a joint effort, the program tries for the network colleagues to utilize and support what we have realized together. The program covers disciplines of psychology from human development, clinical brain science, neuroscience to hypotheses in which research is established, and about how to effectively study the suppositions, strategies, and morals that are a piece of producing and utilizing mental information. Alongside examine, scholastics with understudies mirrors the duty to acknowledging human and authoritative prospects to their fullest.
Coursework includes:
PSY 200 - Psychology as a Natural Science
Covers the scientific foundations of human behavior in areas such as physiological and biological psychology, cognitive, moral, and emotional development, sensation and perception, consciousness, learning, thinking, and memory. It also focuses on issues in experimental design and teaches students how to critically evaluate psychological research.
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PSY 204 - Psychology as a Social Science
Explores human individuality and the social context of behavior. Topics include intelligence, personality, motivation, social psychology, coping with stress, and psychological disorders. Describes theories and research findings in the context of social issues and introduces students to challenges of psychological measurement. Recommended as a first psychology
PSY 311U - Human Development
Development of the individual across the lifespan, from conception to death. Surveys the biological bases and social contexts of developmental processes (e.g., cognitive, social, emotional COURSES| 527 development). Implications of research for education, parenting/family relations, and social policy.
PSY 321 - Research Methods in Psychology
Study of methods for evaluating the quality of psychological measurements, including various concepts of reliability and validity, and item analysis techniques; common sources of invalidity in the interpretation of psychological data; strategies of selecting and analyzing observations that minimize these sources of invalidity.
PSY 350 - Counseling
A survey of counseling and interviewing procedures, contributions of psychological theory to counseling techniques.
PSY 409 - Clinical Practicum
Supervised psychological practice including observing, studying, and participating in the activities of private settings or community service agencies such as schools, mental health clinics, correctional agencies, and daycare centers. Supervision may include guided reading, daily journals, and evaluative reports.
PSY 434 - Introduction to Psychopathology
Course content will survey the development of modern ideas of mental illness, the origins of mental illnesses, the diagnostic system and the clinical syndromes, and methods of treatment of a neuropsychiatric disorder. This course does not produce diagnosticians of mental illness but is a preparation for the clinical study of diagnosis.
PSY 410 - Marriage and Intimate Relationships
Exploring psychological processes and dynamics of close relationships. The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of current theory and research in the field of close relationships, emphasizing practical implications for our own relationships whenever possible. In addition, we will discuss community, societal institutions, and culture as contexts in which relationships are embedded. Topics that would be discussed include intimacy, attraction, friendship, love, dating, sexuality, jealousy, traditional and non-traditional relationships, marriage, parenting, communication and conflict resolution, balancing work and family, domestic violence, power, divorce, remarriage, and blended families.
PSY 410 - Clinical Psychology
The course introduces the field of Clinical Psychology, reviewing the primary activities of clinical psychologists such as - assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders. Topics are considered in the context of cultural considerations and ethical concerns. Sub-fields of clinical psychology are distinguished, including forensic psychology, health psychology, neuropsychology, and research.
PSY 461U - Psychology of Adolescence and Early Maturity
Development of the individual from puberty to early adulthood. Theory and research pertaining to adolescent development.
PSY 451 Introduction to Neurophysiological Psychology
The study of the nervous system, various anatomical, neurophysiological, and imaging techniques for studying the brain and behavior, including specific cognitive abilities such as sensation, perception, attention, language, and emotion.
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