Work Placement I
First co-op work placement (4 months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to PSYC Co-op students.
Work Placement II
Second co-op work placement (4 months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to PSYC Co-op students.
Work Placement III
Third co-op work placement (4 months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to PSYC Co-op students.
Work Placement IV
Optional co-op work placement (4 months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to PSYC Co-op students.
Work Placement V
Optional co-op work placement (4 months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to PSYC Co-op students.
Co-op Training and Development
Framework for the development of learning objectives by students for individual work terms. Includes orientation to the Co-op experience, goal setting, résumé preparation, interview skills preparation.
Lectures, presentation, site visits, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC Co-op students.
Introduction to Psychology
Basic concepts and contemporary issues in psychology with special attention to learning, physiological, developmental, clinical and social psychology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Note: prerequisite to all courses in Psychology except PSYC 2F23 and 3Q91.
Lifespan Development
Introduction to the conceptual bases of life span development, a survey of relevant research, and an overview of methodological issues. Topics illustrating lifespan developmental research and theory will be drawn from the following areas: intellectual, moral, personality, physiological, sexual, emotional, and social development.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, LING and RECL majors until date specified in Registration guide. Not open to CHYS (single or combined) and CHYS (Pass)/BEd (Primary/Junior) majors.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students may not register concurrently in CHYS 2F10. Students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in CHYS 2F10.
Cognition
Acquisition and utilization of knowledge. Topics include information processing, attention and memory, concepts, imagery, problem solving and reasoning, judgment and decision making, language and thought.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Statistics and Research Design in the Behavioural Sciences
Principles of research design and data analysis in the context of psychological research.
Lectures, tutorial, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90 or one Social Science credit.
Note: Grade 12U Mathematics of Data Management or equivalent background recommended.
Introduction to Personality and Individual Differences
Introduction to personality measurement, theory, and research. Personality structure and the causes and functions of personality variation. Current topics in personality research.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Introduction to Social Psychology
Theories, methods, research and issues of contemporary social psychology. Topics include social perception and cognition, the self, attitudes, influence, attraction, aggression, altruism, communication, conflict, group and collective behaviour; the psychological study of social issues including prejudice, law, environment and health.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), COMM (single or combined), CHSC and HLSC majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Physiological Psychology
(also offered as NEUR 2F36)
Biological aspects of behaviour; functional activities of the brain from the neuron through to the interrelationships among neural systems. Topics include drugs and behaviour, sensorial and motivational systems, emotion and stress, learning and memory, language and psychiatric disorders.
Lectures, 3 hours per week; lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, KINS, and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Learning
Presentation of variables and/or conditions which contribute to the learning process including a survey of the basic experimental findings and theoretical issues related to learning emphasizing learning in nonhuman animals.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Perception
Theoretical issues, problems and actual mechanisms of seeing, hearing and other senses. Basic problems of pattern recognition, memory and attention; influence of culture, motivation, personality and pathology on perception.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 2F91.
Experiential Psychology
Subjective experience (states of consciousness) and methods as an alternate way of "doing" psychology. Phenomena of dreams, psychedelic drugs, hypnosis, schizophrenia, religious mysticism and eastern meditative traditions. Conceptual frameworks from introspective and phenomenological traditions of psychology, social science and psychiatry, as well as holistic constuctivist approaches to cognition and the nature of consciousness.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 2F97, 2P96 and 2P97.
Abnormal Psychology
Psychopathology and dysfunctional behaviour are discussed with respect to classification, diagnosis, etiology, treatment and prevention. Biological, psychological and social determinants of mental disorder are considered.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3P28.
Psychological Research
Research methods in several areas of psychology emphasizing development of the student's capacity to evaluate literature and formulate hypotheses through participation in individual research projects.
Lectures 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors with a minimum 75 percent major average and a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F23.
Co-requisite: PSYC 3P39 (must be taken in the Fall session).
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3P30, 3P41 and 3P42.
Neuroscience
(also offered as NEUR 3F81)
Integrative approach to neuroscience from basic elements of molecular neuroscience, physiology of excitable cells, neurophysiology of major brain systems to behavioural neuroscience and selected topics in affective and cognitive neuroscience. Emphasis on the interdisciplinary nature of the subject and the integrative aspects of brain function. General insight into a number of classical disciplines including neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, electrophysiology, neurochemistry and neurology.
Lectures, 2 hours per week; lab, 3 hours alternating weeks.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F36 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3F91.
Theories of Development and Socialization
(also offered as CHYS 3P11)
Interdisciplinary exploration of child and youth development and socialization, including the foundational literature in psychology, sociology and anthropology, as well as contemporary and critical interpretive theories of childhood and youth.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) CHYS BA (Pass)/BEd, and CHYS (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS 2F10.
Adolescent Development
Theories and methods of life span development as they apply to the special issues that emerge during adolescence. Topics include thinking processes, identity formation, physiological change, sexuality and sex roles, family and peer relationships, schooling, vocational choices and moral development.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC and HLSC majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90. Not open to CHYS (single or combined) and CHYS (Pass)/BEd (Primary/Junior) majors.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS 2F10.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Psychology of Aging
Theories and methods of life span development as applied to the special issues that emerge during late adulthood; how physiological, social and cognitive factors interact as individuals cope with the tasks of later years.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHYS (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, LING and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned credit in PSYC 3P94.
Psychology of Parenting
(also offered as CHYS 3P23)
Determinants, varieties and consequences of parenting, focussing on psychological research findings in contemporary parenting/parenthood issues. Topics include different styles of parenting, parent-child relationships, child maltreatment, parenting children with different temperaments, and parenting in ecological contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHLH, CHYS (single or combined) and CHYS BA (Pass)/BEd majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS 2F10.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
Selected mental disorders with respect to classification, diagnosis, etiology and treatment. Biological, psychological and social determinants of psychopathology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to RECL majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits. Not open to PSYC (single or combined) majors.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3F20.
Critical Thinking in Psychology
Development of scientific thinking and discovery procedures in psychology. The design of experiments and quasi-experiments. Control of variables, statistical power and alternative sources of data. Critical analysis of typical examples of contemporary psychological research.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors with either a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F23.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3F40, 3P40 and 3P41.
Psychology of Intergroup Behaviour
(also offered as COMM 3P33)
Social psychological theories and research in the area of intergroup relations and intergroup conflict. Topics include realistic conflict theory, social identity theory, social exchange, relative deprivation and research on intergroup perceptions and attitudes. Current issues/controversies and implications for the resolution of intergroup conflict.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and COMM (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Psychology of Human Sexuality
Introduction to the psychological study of human sexuality. Biopsychosocial approaches are applied to different issues in human sexuality. Topics may include sexual differentiation, gender identity and sexual orientation, attraction and love, paraphilias, and sexual physiology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in CHSC 2P50.
Computer Data Analysis
Applications of computers to management and analysis of data, including data entry, statistical procedures and interpretation of output, using SPSS.
Lectures/lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors with a minimum 75 percent major average and a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F23.
Note: not open to students with credit in PSYC 3F40 prior to 1999.
Psychological Research I
Research methods in several areas of psychology emphasizing development of the student's capacity to evaluate literature and write a research proposal.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (empirical thesis) Co-op students.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F23.
Co-requisite: PSYC 3P39.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3F40 and 3P30.
Psychological Research II
Research methods in several areas of psychology emphasizing research design, data acquisition, and writing an APA report.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (empirical thesis) Co-op students.
Prerequisite: PSYC 3P41.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned credit in PSYC 3F40 and 3P30.
Comparative Psychology I
Introduction to comparative psychology; an emphasis will be placed on the similarity and differences of behaviour patterns across several species (including humans).
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3F45.
Directed Studies I
Topics, readings and/or research chosen in consultation with a faculty member who is willing to supervise the student.
Restriction: permission of the Department. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Directed Studies II
Topics, readings and/or research chosen in consultation with a faculty member who is willing to supervise the student.
Restriction: permission of the Department. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Health Psychology
Psychological aspects of health and illness. Prevention and treatment of illness and the maintenance of wellness. Behavioural and social factors that play a role in the etiology of health and illness.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC and HLSC majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 2P91.
Introduction to Forensic Psychology
Overview of the field of forensic psychology including psychopathy, risk assessment, criminal profiling, deception, eyewitness identification and jury decision-making.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Psychology of Western Consciousness
Attention, memory, hemispheric laterality and language are examined from a general systems theory perspective. Topics include nonconscious processes, altered states of consciousness, lucid dreams, self concept and the effects of drugs on consciousness. Western approaches to consciousness are contrasted and integrated with esoteric techniques for altering consciousness.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Psychology of Eastern Consciousness
Asian psychology approached from a Buddhist perspective; the history, evolution, and practical significance of Buddhism. Topics include meditation, Taoism, Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, and Western applications such as biofeedback and therapy. Eastern approaches to consciousness are contrasted and integrated with Western psychology by examining attention, memory and language.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Psychology of Men
History of psychological thought about masculinity, from sociobiological theory to modern feminist critiques. Topics include theoretical perspectives on the study of gender differences, stereotypes of masculinity, male sexuality, the biology of maleness, and issues related to self-awareness, intimacy, health, the misuse of power and the possibility of reconstructing a more justifiable image of masculinity/maleness.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 2P94 and 3R91.
Introduction to Human Neuropsychology
(also offered as NEUR 3P59)
Relation between brain function and behaviour examined through clinical syndromes and experimental strategies. Topics include disorders of attention, memory, language, emotion and problem solving.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, LING and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits and 1.0 PSYC credit above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned credit in PSYC 3P98.
Cognitive Development
Theory and research pertaining to intellectual development. Topics include the development of perception, memory, thinking and language.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits and 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS 2F10.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Child Language Acquisition: Early Stages
(also offered as CHYS 3P61 and LING 3P61)
Theories, research and methods in early language development. Linguistic stages in the development of child language at the level of grammar and meaning (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics). Discourse as an indicator of the socialization process. Effects of interaction with care givers. Early bilingualism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90, LING 1P92 and 1P93 (1F91) or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC (CHYS/LING) 2P98.
Bases of Neuropsychopharmacology
(also offered as NEUR 3P67)
Mechanisms of drug action and classification of psychoactive agents. Elements of pharmacokinetics (drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination) and a review of the major groups of psychoactive agents including hypnotics, analgesics, anxiolytics, antidepressants, psychostimulants and neuroleptics. Emphasizing mechanisms and consequences of drug action on selected neurotransmitter systems (dopaminergic, cholinergic, serotonergic).
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC (NEUR) 3P97.
Sleep and Wakefulness
Functions, mechanisms, rhythms, physiology and psychology of sleep contrasted with counterparts during wakefulness. Current issues in sleep research and sleep disorders medicine.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Drugs and Behaviour
Basic principles of the kinetics of drugs and drug action, drug effects and drug interactions. Psychology of addictive behaviour. Effects of psychoactive drugs on behaviour and experience. Focus on recreational drugs and the use of psychiatric medications.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3P92.
Psychology of Computers in Education
(also offered as CHYS 3P74)
Uses of computers in education in light of current theories of child development.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHYS (single or combined)majors and CHYS BA (Pass)/Bed, and BA Integrated Studies (Honours)/BEd (Junior/Intermediate) and BSc Integrated Studies (Honours)/BEd (Junior/Intermediate) students until date specified in Registration guide. BA and BSc Integrated Studies students must have a minimum of 10.0 overall credits. All other students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: one of MATH 1F92, PSYC 2F23, SOCI 2P11 and 2P13 (for CHYS/SOCI combined majors; may be taken concurrently), 1.0 COSC or MATH credit.
Note: this is not a computer programming course.
Stress
Modern theories and misconceptions about the effects of stress on psychology and health. Diverse material ranges from workplace theories of stress to the effect of stress on our immune system. Coping strategies, methods of stress appraisal and behavioural effects are also studied and physiological systems involved with the mammalian stress response.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3P95.
Social Development
(also offered as CHYS 3P77)
Social competence, aggression, friendship and other topics in social development from a variety of developmental perspectives. Methodological and intervention issues relevant to the study of social development.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHYS (single or combined) and CHYS BA (Pass)/BEd majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12, CHYS 2F10 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students may not concurrently register in CHYS 3P24.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in CHYS 3P24 and PSYC (CHYS) 3Q94.
Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour
(also offered as COMM 3P80)
Social psychology of interpersonal attraction and relationships, as studied through experimental, correlational and longitudinal designs. Reinforcement, exchange, attributional, equity and balance models. Levels of relationships. Aspects of the maintenance and dissolution of relationships and of interpersonal psychopathology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and COMM (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: PSYC 2F30 recommended. Students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Conflict, Contradictions and Development
(also offered as CHYS 3Q33)
Conflict in early human development including the understanding of the causes, management and outcomes of conflicts. Cognitive and social strategies used to resolve conflicts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHYS (single or combined) and CHYS BA (Pass)/BEd majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12, CHYS 2F10 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC (CHYS) 3Q93.
Consciousness and Society
(also offered as PHIL 3Q90)
Psychodynamic approaches to modern clinical pathologies of narcissism, transpersonal psychologies of meditation and consciousness, and socio-cultural approaches to spiritual movements are used to examine both the nature religious-mystical experience and the repeated appearance of mysticism throughout the 20th century using the personal, social, and political conflicts associated with the life histories of Nietzsche, Emerson, Thoreau, Heidegger, Jung, Blavatsky, Gurdjieff.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and PHIL (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Second Language Acquisition and Learning
(also offered as LING 3Q91)
Theories of subsequent-language learning. Topics include psychological aspects of language learning (behaviourism, cognitivism, humanism), language and culture, contrastive analysis, error analysis, interlanguage.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F94 or permission of the instructor.
Theories of Personality: Freud and Jung
(also offered as PHIL 3Q95)
Major clinically derived theories of personality with special attention to their bases in case study/life history methodology focussing on Freud and Jung and their continuing relevance for current personality, developmental and transpersonal psychology. The possibly unique relation of "depth psychology" to numinous experience (mysticism, creativity, psychosis).
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and PHIL (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Theories of Personality: Developments in Psychodynamic and Transpersonal Psychology
(also offered as PHIL 3Q96)
Major developments in the psychoanalytic and clinical tradition (Kohut, Winnicott, Klein) as they relate to analogous developments within transpersonal and Jungian approaches to "higher" states of consciousness. The conflicts and congruences between these perspectives illustrated by selected life histories (Melanie Klein, Wilhelm Reich, G. Gurdjieff).
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and PHIL (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Treatment Approaches for Children and Adolescents
(also offered as CHYS 4F31)
Theoretical background, research and evaluation of current therapeutic approaches. Disorders include conduct discords, emotional distress, anxiety states, autism, family dysfunction; dynamic therapies (therapeutic play, Gestalt approaches, counselling techniques, expressive work); behavioural theory and techniques, including social skills training, cognitive work and relaxation.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and CHYS (single or combined) majors until the date specified in the Registration guide. Students must have a minimum 13.5 overall credits.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or PSYC 2F10.
Note: students may participate in a practicum placement.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC (CHYS) 4P31 and 4P32.
Literature Review Thesis
Review of the research and theory in a focused area or problem in psychology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours), a minimum 80 percent major average and permission of the Department.
Prerequisites: PSYC 3P30 and 3P39.
Note: topics may be selected from a list assigned by the course co-ordinator or chosen in consultation with a faculty supervisor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 4F92.
Empirical Research Thesis
Research project carried out with a faculty supervisor whose permission must be obtained prior to registration.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours), a minimum 80 percent major average and permission of the Department.
Prerequisites: PSYC 3F40 or PSYC 3P41 and 3P42; PSYC 3P39.
Advanced Directed Studies I
Topic, readings and/or research chosen in consultation with a faculty member who is willing to supervise the student.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits and permission of the Department.
Advanced Directed Studies II
Topic, readings and/or research activity chosen in consultation with a faculty member who is willing to supervise the student.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits and permission of the Department.
Advanced Seminar in Human Memory
Historic and current ideas about memory and the implication these have for our approach to memory in research, medical and legal contexts as revealed through such topics as: tip of the tongue, hypnosis and memory, eyewitness testimony and various memory disorders (psychogenic amnesia, childhood amnesia)
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits.
Personality Assessment and Research
Individual differences in the area of personality and associated domains, including cognitive abilities, interests, attitudes, religiosity, and sexuality. Personality structure and the causes and functions of personality variation. Psychometric theory and test construction.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3F97.
Psychology of the Exceptional Child
Examination of selected topics related to atypical child development. Topics may include autism and William's Syndrome, 'gifted' children, mental retardation, ADHD, conduct disorder, eating disorders, and childhood depression and anxiety.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12, CHYS 2F10 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3P27.
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Theories and research methods in cognitive neuropsychology, focussing on the investigation of brain models of information processing.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 3P59 (3P98) or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3P99.
Introduction to Positive Psychology
Focus on the ordinary strengths and virtues of functioning. Topics include positive emotional states, cognitions (optimism, hope, self-efficacy), interpersonal orientations (attachment, love, forgiveness), subjective well-being, spirituality and energy; applications to physical and mental health.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors and minors until the date specified in Registration guide. Students must have 13.5 credits or 5.0 PSYC credits beyond PSYC 1F90.
Infant Development
Theory and research pertaining to human development from conception to 24 months including perceptual, cognitive, social and emotional development. The impact of early experience on later development.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 13.5 overall credits or 5.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisites: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS 2F10; one credit from PSYC 3P11, 3P18, 3P19, 3P23, 3P60, 3P61, 3P77, 3Q33.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3P93.
Neuropsychology of Aging and Dementia
Neuropsychological changes associated with normal and pathological aging. Topics include causes and consequences of age-related change in intellectual, social and emotional function; implications for quality of life, rehabilitation and supportive care.
Lectures, seminar 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) CHSC, HLSC, LING and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 13.5 overall credits or 5.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 3P19 (3P94).
Note: students who have a minimum of 5.0 NEUR credits may register. Contact the Psychology Department.
Risk-Taking in Youth
(also offered as CHYS 4P41)
Topics may include youth lifestyle choices, problem behaviour theory, risk and protective factors, competence, and developmental pathways in the context of community, family, peer, and intrapersonal factors.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and CHYS (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite: one of CHYS 3P09, 3P11, 3P12, 3P23, 3P24, 3P65, 3P74, 3Q33, PSYC 3P18.
Social Psychology of Justice
Social psychological research and theories that address how people think about, define, and respond to justice and injustice. Exploration of the application of social psychology to the legal system with regard to eyewitness testimony, jury decision making and dispute resolution.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with a minimum 13.5 overall credits.
Community Psychology
Community psychology as conceptualized in the past 20 years emphasizing the interplay between community psychology, deinstitutionalization and the community mental health movements. The contemporary drive for consumer involvement in the development and provision of service will be a major perspective.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; field work.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits.
Contemporary Approaches to Consciousness
(also offered as PHIL 4P47)
Cognitive, philosophical, neuro-psychological, physical and phenome-nological perspectives on consciousness will be explored, including the work of James, Sperry, Gibson, Penrose, Wittgenstein, Husserl and Heidegger, and research on metaphor and self-organizing natural systems.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and PHIL (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Psychology of Forgiveness
Theories, research and issues in the study of forgiveness.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors and minors until the date specified in Registration guide. Students must have 13.5 credits or 5.0 PSYC credits beyond PSYC 1F90.
Neural Mechanisms, Hormones and Behaviour
Relationships among the hormones of the endocrine system, the nervous system and behaviour; the involvement of hormones in sexual behaviour, the mechanisms of stress, and in cognition; and the relevant research methodologies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 13.0 overall credits or 5.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC2F36.
Maturation and Development
(also offered as CHYS 4P56)
Influences of brain physiology and maturation on psychological development and vice versa.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHYS BA (Pass)/BEd, CHYS (single or combined) and NEUR majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 13.0 overall credits or 5.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: one of PSYC one of 2F12, 2F36, CHYS 2F10.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC (CHYS) 3P56.
Human Psychophysiology
Concepts related to acquisition and analysis of bioelectrical signals recorded from the brain, pupillary system, skeletomotor system, cardiovascular system, electrodermal system and respiratory system. Applications to health and human factors include arousal, attention, emotion, stress, immunology, lie detection and brain injury.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), and NEUR majors until the date specified in the Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in Registration guide. Contact the Psychology Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 3P96.
Professional Topics in Psychology
Topics may include privacy legislation, confidentiality, research ethics, post-degree training and professional programs, and other issues that individuals in psychology-related professions may face.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors and minors until the date specified in Registration guide. Students must have 13.5 credits or 5.0 PSYC credits beyond PSYC 1F90.
Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination
Theory and research on the basic processes involved in prejudice and discrimination. Topics include stereotyping, emotions, competition, contemporary prejudice, implicit biases, individual differences, and prejudice reduction.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F30.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 4V96.
Psychology of Violent Predators
Multi-disciplinary approach in an effort to understand the psychology of criminals who engage in predatory violence, including serial killers, mass murderers, child molesters, and rapists. Theories, concepts and research from the fields of psychology, sociology, criminology and criminal justice that social scientists employ to understand and respond to violent criminals.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) a minimum of 13.0 overall credits or 5.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 3F20 or 3P53.
Topics in Clinical Psychology
Issues in assessment techniques, ethical and professional practice issues in clinical psychology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 4V81.
Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy
Contemporary major theories of counselling and psychotherapy, including client/person-centered counselling, cognitive-behaviour therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, psychodynamic psycho-therapy, and post-modern approaches.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PSYC 4V82.
History of Psychology
Historical development of the multiple orientations within psychology. Topics include philosophical and physiological influences in psychology, intro-spectionism; functionalism, behaviourism, Gestalt theory, psychoanalysis, humanistic and developmental.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 13.5 credits.
Prerequisite: one of PSYC 3F40, 3P30, PSYC 3P41 and 3P42.
Honours Seminar
Survey of issues in various areas of Psychology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Thesis Seminar
Empirical research thesis students undertake a study of general research issues and research relevant to the topic of their honours thesis.
Seminar, 1.5 hours per week over two terms.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department.
Co-requisite: PSYC 4F91.
Special Topics in Applied, Clinical and Health Psychology
Structure and content of course varies.
3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: a description of upcoming course offering(s) will be posted by April in the Department and in the Psychology Major's Manual.
Special Topics in Cognition
Structure and content of course varies.
3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: a description of upcoming course offering(s) will be posted by April in the Department and in the Psychology Major's Manual.
Special Topics in Neuropsychology, Physiological, and Comparative Psychology
(also offered as NEUR 4V86-4V88)
Structure and content of course varies.
3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: a description of upcoming course offering(s) will be posted by April in the Department and in the Psychology Major's Manual.
Special Topics in Development
Structure and content of course varies.
3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: a description of upcoming course offering(s) will be posted by April in the Department and in the Psychology Major's Manual.
Special Topics in Methodology
Structure and content of course varies.
3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: a description of upcoming course offering(s) will be posted by April in the Department and in the Psychology Major's Manual.
Special Topics in Personality and Social Psychology
Structure and content of course varies.
3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Note: a description of upcoming course offering(s) will be posted by April in the Department and in the Psychology Major's Manual.