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  • PSY 240: Educational Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course examines the human development and learning theories as they apply to teaching and the learning process. The course focuses on the classroom application of psychological theories and research in the areas of human development, psychosocial influences, learning, motivation, educational environment, and assessments.
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  • PSY 242: Child Development

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    In this course we will explore the many dimensions of development of children from conception through middle childhood within the context of the family and culture. The physical, cognitive, emotional and social aspects of development are studied. There is an emphasis on prevailing theories and recent research and a major thrust on understanding how that impacts the child in the family, school and community. The impact of family and child rearing beliefs, gender issues, and language development are discussed as they relate to developmentally based practices.
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  • PSY 243: Psychopathology

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course offers an introduction to the study of psychopathology in human behavior. Using the biopsychosocial theoretical approach, students will examine the characteristics, etiology, and treatment of the major categories of disorders listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). This course will also address the research methodologies used in studying these disorders and their treatment, as well as the legal and ethical issues in understanding and treating psychopathology.
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  • PSY 250: Cognitive Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course is designed to provide a general understanding into the main area of cognitive psychology including but not limited to: memory, attention, language, knowledge, creativity, and problem solving. It will explore the functional and relevant aspects of the main areas of cognitive psychology, along with their histories. The course will also examine how Cognitive Psychologists employ the scientific method when conducting empirical cognitive-based research. This exploration will allow students to compare and contrast the validity of various cognitive theories. This course will also explore the biological basis of behavior and mental processes as related to cognition. Further, the course will describe the main processes that serve as the foundations of consciousness as well as how these processes relate to a neurological basis for awareness, decision making and behavior.
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  • PSY 255: Intro to Statistical Analysis

    4.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Introduces the student to the concepts of descriptive and inferential statistics. Research needs to be summarized by appropriate descriptive statistics such as central tendency, variability, and distributions. Relationships will be studied using correlation, regression, chi-square, and other non-parametric tests. Research also needs to be analyzed by appropriate inferential statistics such as t-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Hypothesis testing, sampling, significance levels, type I errors, type II errors, confidence intervals, and power will be discussed. The student will be introduced to SPSS and/or other appropriate software for performing the descriptive and inferential statistical procedures presented in the course. The approach will be on practical considerations not theoretical issues.
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  • PSY 256: Research Methods in Psychology

    4.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Introduces students to the philosophy of science and to the strategies of scientific inquiry, and to the skills involved in understanding, analyzing, and conducting psychological research. The course will cover a range of quantitative and qualitative methods including experiments, field studies, naturalistic observation, participant observation, surveys and polls, case studies, unobtrusive measurement, historical and descriptive research, program evaluation, meta-analysis, and quasi-experimental approaches. The course will consider research issues such as ethics, sampling, control, measurement, methodological constraints, and the presentation of a completed study.
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  • PSY 283: Intro to Social Psychology

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Offers a broad introduction to social psychology, the scientific study of human social influence and interaction. The various ways people think about, effect, and relate to one another will be a major emphasis. Topics within socail cognition, social perception and social influence include social self-concept, social judgment, attitudes, persuasion, psychology explanations for social influence and interaction. Research methodologies commonly used to in the discipline will be emphasized through empirical findings.
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  • RES 110: Real Estate Law

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Provides a basic knowledge of real estate law. Decisions in court cases, state and national law concerning various legal aspects of the exchange of real estate are studied. A student must attend 80% of the class for the course to be used as credit to sit for the State Licensing Examination.
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  • RSS 099: Basic Skills Reading

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    This course is designed to develop and strengthen the reading comprehension of students who intend to pursue a college program of study, but who need serious and sustained remediation of their reading for more than one semester in order to prepare for the demands of reading-based college courses. Students are required to keep appointments with reading lab instructors. Students may be required to complete reading lab assignments.
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  • RSS 100: Critical Reading

    3.00 Credits
    Lehigh Carbon Community College

    Designed to increase effectiveness in college reading and related study activities. Special attention is given to improving comprehension of a wide variety of college-level reading materials through critical reading and metaphoric thinking.
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