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- Premier Product - Online access for this course is 18 weeks. After you purchase a Premier course, you will receive your online ID and password via email within two business days.
- Academic Support - If you purchase the additional Academic Support for this courseyou will receive 18 weeks of support.
- Knowledge of terminology, principles, and theory
- Comprehension, evaluation, and analysis of problem situations
- Application of knowledge to new situations
Topics covered include:
- History, Approaches, Methods
- History of psychology
- Approaches: biological behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, psychodynamic
- Research methods: experimental, clinical, correlational
- Ethics in research
- Biological Bases of Behavior
- Etiology
- Endocrne system
- Functional organization of the nervous system
- Genetics
- Neuroanatomy
- Physiological techniques
- Sensation and Perception
- Attention
- Other senses: soesthesis, olfaction, gustation, vestibular system
- Perceptional development
- perceptional processes
- Receptor processes: vision, audition
- Sensory mechanisms: thresholds, adaptation
- States of Consciousness
- Hypnosis and meditation
- Psychoactive drug effects
- Sleep and dreaming
- Learning
- Biological bases
- Classical conditioning
- Cognitive process in learning
- Observational learning
- Operant conditioning
- Cognition
- Intelligence and creativity
- Language
- Memory
- Thinking and problem solving
- Motivation and Emotion
- Biological bases
- Hunger, thirst, sex, pain
- Social motivation
- Theories of emotion
- Theories of motivation
- Developmental Psychology
- Dimensions of development: physical, cognitive, social, moral
- Gender identity and sex roles
- Heredity-environment issues
- Research methods: longitudinal, cross-sectional
- Theories of development
- Personality
- Assessment techniques
- Growth and adjustment
- Personality theories and approaches
- Research methods: idiographic, nomothetic
- Self-concept, self-esteem
- Psychological Disorders and Health
- Affective disorders
- Anxiety disorders
- Dissociative disorders
- Health, stress, and coping
- Personality disorders
- Psychoses
- Somatoform disorders
- Theories of psychopathology
- Treatment of Psychological Disorders
- Behavioral therapies
- Biological and drug therapies
- Cognitive therapies
- Community and preventive approaches
- Insight therapies: psychodynamic/humanistic approaches
- Social Psychology
- Aggression/Antisocial behavior
- Attitudes and attitude change
- Attribution processes
- Conformity, compliance, obedience
- Group dynamics
- Interpersonal perception
- Statistics, Tests, and Measurement
- Descriptive statistics
- Inferential statistics
- Measurement of intelligence
- Mental handicapping conditions
- Reliability and validity
- Samples, populations, norms
(Taken from “Introductory Psychology,” CLEP: Introductory Psychology Exam, ©2008.
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