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Kathleen Schiaffino, Ph.D.
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Graduate Courses

PSGA-5710 -Issues in Social Psychology (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
The person in society: interdisciplinary approaches; personality and culture: subculture, class, and community. Development and the self-cognitive and motivational elements in the acquisition of language, attitudes, and values. Group membership, role behavior, and group dynamics.

PSGA-6020-Health Psychology (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
An introduction to the study of psychological factors in health and illness, which examines the major models, research methods, interventions, and issues in health psychology/ behavioral medicine. Topics include stress-illness, compliance, psychoimmunology, social support, and coping in disorders such as cardiovascular disease, pain, cancer, gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, and obesity.

PSGA-6830-Psychological Research Methodology (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
The course will cover a variety of topics involving research methodology and design. Pitfalls and potential solutions to many experimental and quasi-experimental methodologies will be addressed. Students will complete their own research project during this course, including design, finding subjects, experimentation, analysis, and write-up.

Undergraduate Courses

PSRU-1000-Introductory Psychology (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
The objective of this course is to provide an introduction to the contents and methods of scientific psychology as a life science. It is a survey of the facts, principles, and theories of psychology relating to learning, sensation, perception, cognition, motivation, developmental, personality, abnormal, and social psychology.

PSRU-2600-Social Psychology (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
An examination of how others shape an individual's behavior. A review of selected topics of interpersonal behavior, including antisocial and prosocial behavior, prejudice, attraction, social influence, attitudes and persuasion, research methods. Prerequisite: PSRU 1000.

 
     
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