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405 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (3) Attitude formation and change, attitude measurement, prejudice, conformity, leadership, affiliation drives and group processes. Social experiments and research . Prerequisites: 200, 210. Spring semester. 410 PERCEPTION (3) Perceptual processes, illusions, and constancies, perceptual learning, and the effects of motivational variables on percption. Prerequisite: 200. Offered on sufficient demand. 411 PERSONALITY (3) Major theorists including Freud, Allport, Rogers, Cattel and Kelly; major tests of personality, M.M.P.I. , C.P.I. , and Cattel's 16 P-F. Prerequisites: 200, 306. Laboratory fee $5.00. Offered spring semester every other year (even-numbered years). 414 READING IN PSYCHOLOGY (1-3) Provides the student with opportunity for extensive study in a specific topic of his choosing. Prerequisite: senior standing. Either semester. 418 THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES (3) Emphasis on Eagan's interpersonal model of counseling . Supportive re-educative and reconstructive therapies considered. Personal growth activities incorporated. (Permission only.) Offered spring semester each year. 426 SEMINAR IN GROUP COUNSELING (4) Techniques for forming groups, analyzing processes, leadership, facilitators, measurement of behavior, and methods of stabilizing gains over time. Three hours lecture, two hours laboratory. Prerequisite: 15 units in psychology and consent. Offered on sufficient demand, spring semester, every other year (odd-numbered years) . 428 EUROPEAN STUDY (1-3) Travel to places of historic interest such as Freud's museum in Vienna, Jungian Institute in Zurich, and various clinics in Europe . Offered in summer on sufficient demand. 430 FAMILY INTERACTION AND THE CHILD (3) Analysis of patterns of family dynamics and their influence on development of child. Pathogenic family interactions and healthy family patterns emphasized. Prerequisite: 320. Offered spring semester every other year (even-numbered years). 450 DIRECTED FIELD WORK IN PSYCHOLOGY (1-3) Supervised experience in mental health, educational, correctional, or related facility. Open only to upper division students . Prerequisites: 306, 309, and consent. Either semester. 470 SEMINAR IN PSYCHOLOGY (1-3) Reading, research and discussion in a topic of contemporary interest in psychology . Prerequisite: 200 . Offered on sufficient demand . 480 RESEARCH SEMINAR (1-3) Research under the guidance of Psychology Department which may range from the development of a proposal to completion of a literary, field laboratory, or social research project wr_itten according to APA format. Prerequisites: 210 and advanced status. Offered on sufficient demand.

309 ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY (3) Nature, causes and treatment of abnormal behavior, including personality disorders, neuroses , psychoses, reactions to stress and other dysfunctions. Prerequisite: 200. 310 RESEARCH IN LEARNING (4) Empirical findings and theoretical developments in the area of learning and their application to human behavior. Three hours lecture, three hours laboratory. Prerequisites: 200, 210 . Laboratory fee $5.00. Fall semester. 311 EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION-PROGRAM II (3) Application of principles of growth and development to skills; techniques of teaching pre-school children art and science. (Not for psychology credit.) Offered spring semester every other yea r (odd-numbered years). 312 MOTIVATION (3) Physiological, psychological and social basis of motivation. Topics include drives , obesity, sexual motivation, need for achievement, and aggression. Prerequisite: 200. Offered on sufficient demand. 316 ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY (3) Problems facing youth in transition from childhood to adult society, including physiological changes, identity formation, drug abuse, suicide, spiritual beliefs, and other social pressures. Prerequisite: 200. Spring semester. 318 COUNSELING TECHNIQUES (3) Egan's model of skilled helping emphasized. Theoretical considerations given to reality, rational emotive, TA and gestalt therapies . Personal development encouraged. For resident assistants only. Offered fall semester each year. 320 EARLY CHILDHOOD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT (3) Principles and research in the emotional, physical , cognitive, perceptual, social and spiritual aspects of infants and young children. Prerequisite: 200. Fall semester. 334 RESEARCH AND MEASUREMENT OF THE YOUNG CHILD (3) Analysis of tests and measuring instruments for the diagnosis and evaluation of the young child; analysis of current research . Prerequisites: 301, or Education 330. Laboratory fee $7.00. Offered spring semester every other yea r (even-numbered years). 350 EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION - PROGRAM III (3) The application of the principles of growth and development to skills and techniques of teaching children in the pre-school through activities in art, science, literature, music, dramatic play and movement education. (Not for psychology credit.) 400 EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATON - PRACTICUM (2) Experience gained by working in the Biola College Child Center (or equivalent). (Not for psychology credit .) Offered on sufficient demand. 402 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PSYCHOLOGY (3) Overview of psychology as a discipline and analysis of historic and current trends in the field. Relationship of psychology to sociology, history, religion and science . Prerequisite: 12 units of psychology. Fall semester.

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