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Mindfulness Through Biofeedback And Meditation Syllabus, Eric B. Miller

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Fiqws 10008 Syllabus Fall 2023, Hayley M. Hancock

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This syllabus outlines the Fall 2023 Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar (FIQWS) course Psychopathology in Literature. In the topic section, students learn about the history, research, ethics, and practice of psychopathology. This topic course is accompanied by a composition course in which students will apply their understanding of psychopathology to creative and research writing assignments.

Sociology Ethnographic Film Review, Kristen S. Addessi

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This is an assignment that gives students options of using different films as examples of ethnographies to understand key issues that occur in our society.

Introduction To Psychology, Gail Hayes

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Introduction to Psychology is a modified version of Psychology 2e - OpenStax.

Psy 390 Evolutionary Psychology, Dan Mccloskey

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Psy 2813: Cross Cultural Psychology, Desiree Byrd

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This course is designed to cover developmental, social and cognitive psychological processes through the lens of various international and domestic cultural orientations. Process learning will focus on self-exploration of students’ individual cultural identity and developing an understanding and self-awareness of how oppression, prejudice, and bias (explicit and implicit) impact the practice of psychology from personal, professional, and socio- political perspectives.

Psychology Of Addiction: Discussion & Essay Questions, Brent Maximin

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Research & Program Evaluation, Laura Brandt

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This course will introduce theories, concepts, and research which enrich our understanding of implementing psychological/mental health interventions and programs in the “real world”. This course reviews the fundamentals of research and evaluation methods. Students are introduced to some aspects of evaluation theory, basic research methods used in applied research and evaluation, practical approaches to conducting and interpreting research, and to research design and assessment of intervention and implementation outcomes.

Introduction To Human Development: Infancy And Childhood, Hawai Kwok

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Positive Psychology Assignment: Character Strengths, Ann Marie Yali

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This assignment is designed to help students to work with their character strengths as defined by the VIA (values in action) survey, mimicking a research protocol that found some benefits for well-being. Students will then compare their own "results" from the exercise to the published results and compare findings. Assignments like this then stimulate class discussion around issues that might be leading to similarities and/or differences in the student vs. researcher results.

Psychology In The Modern World, Kutay Agardici

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This syllabus is created for the two courses I will be teaching at City College in the psychology dept. Topics include cognition, language, learning, memory, nature vs. nurture, abnormal psychology, social psychology, etc.

Investigating The Covid-19 Pandemic In Your Community, Tanzina Ahmed

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In this writing assignment, students will conduct research on statistics about COVID-19 in New York City and their embedded communities using free online databases from the New York City Department of Health (NYC DOH). For questions 1, 2, 3, and 4, students will conduct research on COVID-19 statistics within NYC and their specific neighborhood/community in New York City. In questions 5 and 6, students will analyze the data you have gathered while using your own knowledge of your community. A full set of instructions for accessing NYC DOH databases and a complete rubric for grading the assignment is included.

What Can I Do With A Bachelor’S Degree In Psychology?, Ruth Walker, Drew C. Appleby

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This poster presents a list of common job titles for students who have graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology. The original poster dimensions are 48"x36".

Research Methods In Psychology, Megan V. Caldwell

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This course includes powerpoints created for use with the textbook, Research Methods in Psychology, 4th edition, published by Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Chapters covered in these powerpoints include

• Chapter 1: The Science of Psychology
• Chapter 2: Overview of the Scientific Method
• Chapter 3: Research Ethics
• Chapter 4: Psychological Measurement
• Chapter 5: Experimental Research
• Chapter 6: Non-experimental Research
• Chapter 7: Survey Research
• Chapter 8: Quasi-Experimental Research

This material was intended for use with undergraduate students studying psychology or other behavioral sciences. The course was taught in person but can be adapted for online use. Slides include images from my personal research at …

Psychology 102: Introductory Psychology, Susan Austin

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Basic concepts and methods of contemporary psychology emphasizing the biological basis of behavior, learning, cognition, consciousness, development, stress and personality, abnormal behavior, group behavior, and social interaction.

Advanced Psychopathology, Comfort Asanbe

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This syllabus is designed for a graduate course in the study of abnormal psychology, also known in some institutions as Psychopathology. The course is required for new students who are starting their program in clinical mental health counseling (CMHC). The syllabus provides information on required resources for optimal performance in the class. These resources include; electronic DSM-5 book through the CSI library e-resources, digital interactive learning resource (MindTap), instructional movies through Wikipedia, and links to relevant mental health organizations. The resources are mostly open education resources (OER), with a few that are not free (MindTap).

Application Of Psychology In The Modern World, Hawai Kwok

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Semester Schedule For Cognitive And Behavioral Neuroscience, Megan V. Caldwell

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This course schedule has been created for an asynchronous 15-week, 4 credit Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience course. It is a comprehensive schedule including a week-by-week breakdown of lecture topics, reading material, assignments, and exam schedule. The course covers topics related to cognition and neuroscience including the action potential, neurotransmitters, cell gradients, sensation (vision, hearing, and pain/somatosensation), neuroplasticity, memory, and movement systems. The schedule is intended to be accompanied by a syllabus.

Environmental Psychology: Open Syllabus, Valkiria Duran-Narucki

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This is a syllabus designed to work as a "frame" that you can use and populate together with students. The goal is to provide a perspective from environmental psychology.

Evaluating Brain Performance Enhancing Drugs, Kristina Toropova

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Students read about drugs which enhance student academic performance.They will connect the found information to prior course material, addressing neuroanatomy and neurophysiology as well as connect to the attention course chapter. Students will also delve into the ethical components of the use of brain enchasing drugs and compare them to sports performance-enhancing drugs.

Psychology And The Black Experience, Donna Gooden

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Introductory Psychology Hidden Figures Poster – Online Group Presentation, Roderick Hurley

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Students will work in groups to prepare poster presentations about underrecognized contributors or “hidden figures” in the field of psychology.

Developmental Psychology Syllabus, Rodina Sadek

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Psychology Of Adolescence, Brent Maximin

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Animal-Human Vocabulary Builder, Domenick Acocella, Rene Cordero

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The assignment helps students individually build a usable, expanding vocabulary of terms and concepts, enabling each to further contribute to the ongoing, evolving written, oral, and visual conversations centered on the use of and thought about animals for food, clothing, work, entertainment, experimentation, imagery, and companionship.

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Psy 2100 (Statistics For Social Science), Adam Shavit

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You will learn to summarize, make sense of, and base decisions on real life data. You will learn to read and create verbal and graphical summaries from measurements, for example from randomized experiments and correlational surveys. You will also learn to estimate your confidence in a pattern of results. This will be applied to inferring from limited observations to more general phenomenon, and to compare differences between groups. We will also learn to describe and quantify co-variation between measurements. In addition, you will get experience in conducting statistical analyses using software, working on real datasets from psychological experiments.

Applied Statistics, Alina Shevorykin

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Experimental Psychology, Bianca Vidal

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Syllabus for Experimental Psychology Course

Multicultural Issues In Counseling, Shaakira Haywood

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Course Description: Multicultural Issues in Counseling is intended to provide an introduction to the role of political and sociocultural factors in the provision of appropriate, effective and ethical counseling. This is a theoretical, practical and experiential course that will focus on expanding awareness of your own cultural values and biases; developing critical thinking and awareness of differing experiences and worldviews; and increasing their sensitivity to how sociocultural identities influence prospective clients. The focus of the course is on the individual as a racial-cultural being who brings to their daily life a range of social group memberships which can serve as …

Ethics Activity, Bianca Vidal

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Apply critical thinking to the research scenarios and act ethically based on APA Principles in the conduct of research with humans.