Undergraduate Courses
PSCL 101, General Psychology I, 3 credits
Methods, research, and theories of psychology. Basic research from such areas as psychophysiology, sensation, perception, development, memory, learning, psychopathology, and social psychology.
PSCL 102, General Psychology II, 3 credits
The applications of psychological research in normal problems of adjustment. Topics include: coping with anxiety, romance and marriage, and interpersonal behavior.
PSCL 230, Child Psychology, 3 credits
Basic facts and principles of psychological development from the prenatal period through adolescence.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 231, Child Psychology Practicum, 1 credit
The course will involve three hours per week of practicum experience at either the Church of the Covenant day care center or the Mental Development Center School. Student will be given an orientation to child development in the context of a preschool program.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 282, Quantitative Methods in Psychology, 3 credits
The theory and application of basic methods used in the analysis of psychological data. Not available for credit to students who have completed STAT 201
PSCL 300, Interdisciplinary Psychology, 3 credits
This course draws on information from different fields of inquiry to address broad psychological questions about the human condition. Topics may include identity, cultural change, finding meaning in life, the nature of evil, love and family, death, and happiness. Intended for students who like to think, the course will emphasize learning how to cross disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of fundamental insights.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 313, Psychology of Personality, 3 credits
The development and organization of personality; theories of personality and methods for assessing the person problems of personal adjustment.
PSCL 315, Social Psychology, 3 credits
Empirical studies of typical human responses to situations. First impressions, attitude change, effects of cash incentives, behavior in emergencies, interpersonal attraction, impression management, crowding, stress, vices.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 317, Health Psychology, 3 credits
Examines psychological processes that affect physical health. Covers the physiological factors affecting the immune system, chronic physical disorders, pain, compliance with prescribed medical treatments, the effects of stress and coping, the effects of the patient-physician interaction, and the psychological aspects of the hospital and the health care systems.
Prerequisite: PSCL 315
PSCL 321, Abnormal Psychology, 3 credits
Major syndromes of mental disorders, their principal symptoms, dynamics, etiology, and treatment.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 325, Psychotherapy and Personality Change, 3 credits
Three methods of psychotherapy (behavioral, psychoanalytic, and client-centered) are discussed. The therapy techniques and the manner by which personality change is effected are examined.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 329, Adolescence, 3 credits
Psychological perspectives on physical, cognitive, and social development.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 330, Student Development and Peer Counseling, 3 credits
Psychosocial, cognitive, and moral development of adolescents and young adults. Study and practice of basic peer counseling skills used to assist young adults in their development.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 334A, Seminar and Practicum: Preschool and Daycare, 3 credits
Supervised field placement and attendance at staff conferences in various child and adolescent settings. Regular seminar meetings.
Prerequisite: PSCL 230
PSCL 334B, Seminar and Practicum: Developmental Disability, 3 credits
Supervised field placement and attendance at staff conferences in various child and adolescent settings. Regular seminar meetings.
Prerequisite: PSCL 230
PSCL 334C, Seminar and Practicum: Hospitalized Children, 3 credits
Supervised field placement and attendance at staff conferences in various child and adolescent settings. Regular seminar meetings.
Prerequisite: PSCL 230
PSCL 335A, Seminar and Practicum: Preschool and Daycare, 3 credits
Supervised field placement and attendance at staff conferences in various child and adolescent settings. Regular seminar meetings.
Prerequisite: PSCL 230
PSCL 335B, Seminar and Practicum: Disturbed/Retarded, 3 credits
Supervised field placement and attendance at staff conferences in various child and adolescent settings. Regular seminar meetings.
Prerequisite: PSCL 230
PSCL 335C, Seminar and Practicum: Hospitalized Child, 3 credits
Supervised field placement and attendance at staff conferences in various child and adolescent settings. Regular seminar meetings.
Prerequisite: PSCL 230
PSCL 335D, Seminar and Practicum: Adolescents, 3 credits
Supervised field placement and attendance at staff conferences in various child and adolescent settings. Regular seminar meetings.
Prerequisite: PSCL 230
PSCL 336, Seminar and Practicum: Adult Psychopathology, 3 credits
Supervised field placement at facilities for persons with severe emotional handicaps.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101 and PSCL 321
PSCL 338, Seminar and Practicum in Adolescents, 3 credits
Prerequisite: PSCL 230
PSCL 339, Seminar and Practicum in Adolescents, 3 credits
Prerequisite: PSCL 230
PSCL 344, Developmental Psychopathology, 3 credits
This course will focus on the interplay of biological, psychological, familial, and social determinants of disorders ranging from autism to delinquency and bulimia.
Prerequisite: PSCL 230 or PSCL 321
PSCL 345, Mind, Culture and Religious Experience, 3 credits
A critical examination of several major approaches to the psychological foundations of religious experience. Students will read and discuss original works by James, Freud, Erikson, Winnicott, Geertz, Otto, and Obeyesekere. Through case studies, first-person accounts, plays and film, students will encounter such phenomena as conversion, spirit possession, mystical and ecstatic states, psychopathology, religious leadership, perceptions of the divine, and the personalization of religious symbolism. Of central concern will be the place of culture in the psychological study of religion, and in the construction of religious experience. Students will read from phenomenological and anthropological studies of religion and learn to engage these in a critique of psychology.
Instructor: Daniel J. Meckel, djm34@cwru.edu
Cross-listed as RLGN 345
PSCL 350, Behavior Genetics, 3 credits
Examines the impact of both nature and nurture on human behavior. Basic quantitative genetic methodology will be covered. Current family, twin and adoption studies in the areas of personality, intelligence, alcoholism, criminality, and psychopathology will be reviewed.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 352, Physiological Psychology, 3 credits
The nervous system as it relates to behavior.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 353, Psychology of Learning, 3 credits
The basic methods in the study of learning. The major theories proposed to account for the learning process. Development of the fundamental concepts and principles governing the learning process in both humans and lower animal.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 355, Sensation and Perception, 3 credits
The psychological and physiological processes entering into perception. Current research and theory in the light of classical statements of the problems. The role of learning in perceptual functioning. Reading, lectures, demonstrations, and problems.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 357, Cognitive Psychology, 3 credits
How individuals encode, store, organize, and use information. Pattern recognition, attention, memory, and problem solving.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 360, Laboratory and Seminar in Human Experimental Psychology, 3 credits
Methods of research in human learning, cognition, and perception will be examined through seminar discussions and laboratory experiments.
PSCL 369, Adult Development and Aging, 3 credits
An overview of concepts and research relating to adult development and aging. The lifespan perspective will be used in examining major developmental paradigms. Personality and cognitive lines of development will be traced across the lifespan. Data from both longitudinal and crosssectional studies will be analyzed. Both normal and pathological aging will be discussed. Special emphasis will be given to areas of cognitive deterioration in aging. Implications for optimal adult development and aging will also be discussed.
PSCL 370, Human Intelligence, 3 credits
Survey of individual differences in human intellect including construction and administration of intelligence tests, theories and models of intelligence, and the role of heredity and environment in intelligence and the development of intelligence. This course will also examine the relationships of cognitive abilities to intelligence and human to artificial intelligence.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 375, Research Design and Analysis, 3 credits
Conceptual and methodological issues confronted by the behavioral scientist conducting research. Major experimental designs and statistical procedures. Intuitive understanding of the mathematical operations.
Prerequisite: PSCL 282
PSCL 382, Psychological Measurement, 3 credits
The problems and methods of measuring behavior. Scaling theory, rating methods, and the theoretical basis of psychological testing.
Prerequisite: PSCL 282
PSCL 390, Seminars in Psychology, 1-3 credits
Surveys of special subject areas. Topics vary in response to faculty and student interests. Small group discussion. Prerequisite depends on content.
PSCL 392, History and Systems of Psychology, 3 credits
Historical antecedents of modern psychology. Completion of at least 12 semester hours of psychology recommended.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 393 , Experimental Child Psychology, 3 credits
The development of behavior from birth to adolescence. Growth of basic processes such as perception, learning, memory, intelligence, and language in the light of current theoretical models.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
PSCL 395, Honors Program, 3 credits
Supervision in carrying out an independent research study in the student's area of interest.
Prerequisite: PSCL 375
PSCL 397, Independent Study, 1-3 credits
Individual study involving specific programs of reading, research, and special projects. If you wish to take an independent study course, you should decide what area you want to do it in and find the faculty member with interest closest to that area (information on faculty interests can be found (here). Contact the faculty member and discuss your plans (an email may be sufficient to begin). Before signing up for independent study, you should come to a written agreement with the advisor you select about exactly what will be accomplished during the period of study.
Prerequisite: PSCL 101
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Graduate Courses
PSCL 400, Ethics for Professional Researchers, 3 credits
Ethical principles applied to topics including authorship, plagiarism, grants, ownership of intellectual property, conflict of interest, harassment, and treatment of animal or human subjects.
PSCL 401, Sensation and Perception, 3 credits
Role of sensory and perceptual processes in adjustment. Theories and experimental work dealing with such topics as nativism vs empiricism, perception without awareness, perception and personality, effects of drugs on personality, effects of drugs on perception, pathology of perception. Limited to graduate students.
PSCL 402, Cognition and Information Processing, 3 credits
Aspects of cognition beyond the area of sensation and perception, involving symbolic processes, especially problems of meaning, conceiving, reasoning, judging, and thinking.
PSCL 403, Physiological Foundations of Behavior, 3 credits
Fundamental neurological processes controlling behavior.
PSCL 404, Learning Theory, 3 credits
The research literature in learning; theoretical formulations of contemporary learning theorists. Limited to graduate students.
PSCL 405, Personality Theory, 3 credits
General problems and systematic points of view in the analysis of personality. Limited to graduate students.
PSCL 407, Research Design and Quantitative Analysis I, 3 credits
Intermediate research design and statistical analysis used in psychological research. Statistical inference from single variables, elementary principles of probability, correlation and regression.
Prerequisite: PSCL 282
PSCL 408, Research Design and Quantitative Analysis II, 3 credits
Advanced research design and statistical analysis used in psychological research. Statistical inference from multiple variables, multiple correlation and regression, analysis of variance, nonparametric statistics.
Prerequisite: PSCL 407
PSCL 409, Advanced Social Psychology, 3 credits
Major theories, methods, and problem areas of social psychology. Psychological development of the individual group structures and dynamics.
PSCL 410, Developmental Psychology, 3 credits
The research literature and theoretical formulation in the area of developmental psychology. Limited to graduate students.
PSCL 412, Measurement of Behavior, 3 credits
Theory and methods of human behavior measurements. Reliability, validity, and test construction in the objective assessments of traits and abilities.
Prerequisite: PSCL 282
PSCL 413, Human Intelligence, 3 credits
Research on human intelligence. Validity of intelligence tests, environmental, and genetic influences on intelligence and the relationship of cognitive abilities to intelligence.
PSCL 417, Multivariate Data Analysis, 3 credits
Major statistical techniques used in experimental and survey research containing more than one dependent variable. Techniques discussed include multiple regression, canonical correlation, multivariate analysis of variance. Discrimination analysis, cluster analysis and factor analysis.
Prerequisite: PSCL 408 or its equivalent
PSCL 418, History and Systems, 3 credits
Historical antecedents of modern psychology.
PSCL 425, Methods of Assessment I, 3 credits
Limited to graduate students in clinical psychology
PSCL 426, Methods of Assessment II, 3 credits
Methods of psychological assessment, emphasizing personality and family function in childhood and adulthood.
PSCL 427, Special Assessment Methods with Children with Multiple Problems, 3 credits
Specialized assessment techniques for handicapped children, mentally retarded, and chronically ill children. Infant and preschool assessment.
Prerequisite: PSCL 425
PSCL 429, Practicum in Assessment I, 1 credit
Applied experience for clinical psychology graduate students in the cognitive assessment of children and\ adults.
PSCL 430, Practicum in Assessment II, 1 credit
PSCL 444, Developmental Psychopathology, 3 credits
This course will focus on the interplay of biological, psychological, familial, and social determinants of disorders ranging from autism to delinquency and bulimia.
PSCL 453, Seminars in Psychology, 1-3 credits
A special problem or topic. Content varies with student and faculty interest. Recent offerings: creative thinking in research, community psychological, evaluation of community processes, experimental and computer methods, consultation, and psychoanalytic ego psychology.
PSCL 501, Pediatric Psychology I, 1-3 credits
Seminar on current research topics, research design and methodological issues related to pediatric psychology. Introductory lectures provide an overview of research populations, methods, and practical issues appropriate to research with pediatric populations.
PSCL 502, Seminar: Pediatric Psychology, 1-3 credits
Seminar examining specific topics in pediatric psychology. Topics will deal with issues of infant development. Infants at risk for disability, neuropsychology and learning disabilities, and childhood psychopathology.
PSCL 524, Advanced Psychopathology, 3 credits
Theoretical issues and current research data bearing on major patterns of psychological disturbance
PSCL 527, Clinical Psychology: Introduction to Methods of Intervention, 3 credits
PSCL 529A, Practicum in Intervention I: Behavior Therapy, 1credit
Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 529B, Practicum in Intervention I: Client-centered, 1 credit
Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 529C, Practicum in Intervention I: Psychodynamic, 1 credit
Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 530A, Practicum in Intervention II: Behavior Therapy, 1 credit
Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 530B, Practicum in Intervention II: Client-centered, 1 credit
Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 530C, Practicum in Intervention II: Psychodynamic, 1 credit
Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 531A, Seminar in Intervention I: Behavior Therapy, 2 credits
Theoretical issues and research on psychological interventions. Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 531B, Seminar in Intervention I: Client-centered, 2 credits
Theoretical issues and research on psychological interventions. Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 531C, Seminar in Intervention I: Psychodynamic, 2 credits
Theoretical issues and research on psychological interventions. Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 532A, Seminar in Intervention II: Behavior Therapy, 2 credits
Theoretical issues and research on psychological interventions. Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 532B, Seminar in Intervention II: Client-centered, 2 credits
Theoretical issues and research on psychological interventions. Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 532C, Seminar in Intervention II: Psychodynamic, 2 credits
Theoretical issues and research on psychological interventions. Graduate standing in clinical psychology required.
PSCL 535, Child and Family Intervention, 2 credits
A course for advanced clinical graduate students that covers psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral approaches for working with children and adolescents and systems approaches for working with families.
PSCL 536, Intervention with Parents and Couples, 2 credits
A course for advanced clinical graduate students that covers various approaches to working with parents and couples and special topics in family therapy such as ethnicity and nontraditional families.
PSCL 537, Child and Family Case Seminar I, 1 credit
Clinical graduate students in child and family field placements present and receive group supervision on ongoing cases.
PSCL 538, Child and Family Case Seminar II, 1 credit
Clinical graduate students in child and family field placements present and receive group supervision on ongoing cases.
PSCL 601, Special Problems, 1-36 credits
Credit as arranged.
PSCL 651, Thesis M.A., 1-36 credits
Credit as arranged.
PSCL 700, Internship, 0 credits
Full-time predoctoral internship in clinical psychology. Required of all students in clinical psychology program. Registration requires written consent of director of clinical psychology training and must be for one calendar year.
PSCL 701, Dissertation Ph.D., 1-36 credits
Credit as arranged.
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