Goucher College 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalogue 
    
    Oct 05, 2024  
Goucher College 2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalogue

PSY 105 - Introduction to Psychology (4 Cr.)


This course provides an overview of the contemporary discipline of psychology, integrated with learning activities designed to develop scientific thinking and research skills. Topics include fundamental issues in psychology, brain and behavior, perception, learning and cognition, personality theories, psychological disorders, and humanistic, developmental, and social psychologies. Students will learn the philosophical and methodological foundations of psychology as a scientific study of mind, brain, behavior, and human experience. Fall semester, repeated spring semester. Choe, DeWyngaert, McCabe, Starkey.