COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
PSYCHOLOGY
PSY 502 STATISTICS (3)
Concepts and techniques involved in the analysis and interpretation of clinical and research data. Lecture and laboratory covering descriptive and inferential statistics. Major topics will include correlation and regression, tests of significance and intro duction to analysis of variance. Both parametric and non-parametric approaches will be covered. Prerequisite: Undergraduate statistics PSY 503 PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY 1 (4) This is the first in a three course sequence in personality and psychopathology. The course covers behavioral approaches to personality and psychopathology, including stimulus-response and social learning theories, the social development of personal ity, and the learned nature of psychopathology. Considers such theorists as Miller and Dollard, Wolpe, and Skinner. PSY 504 PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY II (4) The second in a three course sequence, this course covers the humanistic existential viewpoint on personality and psychopathology, including such theorists as Allport, Bass, Gendlin, Laing, Maslow, May, Rogers and Van Kaam. PSY 505 PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY III (4) The third in a three course sequence, this course covers the dynamic or analytic perspective on personality and psychopathology, including such theorists as Adler, Guntrip, Freud, Horney, Jung and Sullivan. PSY 507 MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT I (4) The first of a two-course sequence directed toward competence in administration, scoring, and interpretation of psychological tests. It involves a survey of basic con cepts and principles of psychological measurement, including factors influencing val idity and reliability. The course places emphasis on the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler scales and assessment of intellectual functioning. PSY 508 MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT II (3) A continuation of PSY 507 with special emphasis on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and an introduction to the use of projective personality as sessment approaches. PSY 509 MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT III (1 or 2) The writing of psychological evaluations with an emphasis on the integration of material derived from test batteries and other case material. Students should have some familiarity with projective techniques. Elective. Prerequisites: PSY 507, PSY 508 41
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