EDUCATION - PSYCHOLOGY
306. PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING II. (3) Practical experience in administering, scoring, and interpreting individ ual intelligence tests with special emphasis on the Wechsler and the Binet. 307. EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. (3) Principles and procedures of experimentation; analysis rn sensation, perception, motivation, learning, and reasoning. Prerequisite: Psychology 305. 308. CHILD PSYCHOLOGY. (3) The development of the child from infancy to adolescence. 309. ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY. (3) Discussion of the underlying causes of abnormal behavior, vanous types of behavior disorders, and modern therapies employed. 401. COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY.(3) A course designed to acquaint the student with the sensory and neuro logical equipment and behavioral capacities of animals at various levels. 402. SYSTEMATIC PSYCHOLOGY. (3) Consideration of psychological systems and present trends: e.g., Behav iorism, Gestalt psychology, psychoanalysis, and others. Some considera tion of the historical backgrounds of modern psychology. 403. THE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD. (2) Problems connected with the understanding and training of the excep tional child. 405. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. (3) A study of the individual as a social entity and as a member of a group. Some attention given to the various theories explanatory of group be havior and of social control. 408. MENTAL HYGIENE. (3) An introduction to the field of mental hygiene as it relates to the basis for mental health; a discussion of deviations. The prevention of such abnormalities, with special reference to the needs of children and adolescents. 411. THEORIES OF PERSONALITY. (3) A critical comparison of current theories about the development and organization of personality. Allport, Murry, Lewin, Social Psychological Theories, Psychoanalytic Theories. 415. PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY. (3) Survey course to introduce student to physiological basis of behavior with emphasis on nervous system. 416. LEARNING THEORIES. (3) A critical evaluation of the stimulus-response theories of Thorndike, Guthrie, Skinner, and Hull and of the cognitive theories of the Gestalt school, of Tolman, and Lewin. 420. RESEARCH PROBLEMS. (2) Group discussion based on problems of individual and group .research. 49
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