Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

This course helps you understand why cognitive psychologists approach problems as they do. It iss a study of cognition: how humans think. Topics covered include visual perception, attention, sensory and primary memory, memory encoding, memory retrieval, memory storage, motor control, visual imagery, decision making and deductive reasoning, problem solving, and language.

6 Credits

Psychology of Personality

This course is designed to prepare you to apply theories of personality to understanding particular individuals who they may encounter in professional work and in their personal lives; this engaging course provides an overview of major classic and current theories of personality, together with clear explanation of the latest research.

6 Credits

Introduction to Psychology

The course is designed to introduce you to many different major areas of psychology. The course is a review of theory and research about the basic smorgasbord of topics in psychology: research methods, biological aspects of psychology, sensation, perception, learning, memory, cognition, motivation, personality, development, stress, disorders and their treatments.

6 Credits

Health Psychology

A comprehensive, yet engaging course that covers both the clinical aspects of health psychology with the research related to important health issues. Integrating diversity and mind-body issues, the course helps you identify the hot topics in the field. Pain and illness is defined with respect to psychology of human mind.

6 Credits

Evolutionary Psychology

Course provides an introduction to evolutionary psychology; integrative approach to thinking about human nature and how it interacts with environments to produce patterns of cognition, emotion, behavior and culture. Topics including, long-term and short-term mating, sexuality, parenting, kinship, cooperation, aggression and warfare, conflict between sexes, status, prestige, and dominance hierarchies.

6 Credits