2023-2024 Schoolcraft Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Psychology
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Studying psychology offers insight into the fascinating area of human behavior and provides a better understanding of why people act and think as they do. Schoolcraft offers courses in human relations, general psychology, child psychology, the psychology of aging, and the psychology of adjusting to the personal and social environment. Students also have the opportunity to get involved in on-campus events and activities focused on raising awareness of mental health issues and promoting awareness of mental health resources and services.
Psychologists apply this insight to their work in fields as diverse as education, nursing, medicine, law, advertising, public relations, and communications.
Students interested in studying Psychology should talk to their Academic Advisor about transfer guides and articulation agreements with Schoolcraft College. Students interested in studying Psychology at a 4-year university may be interested in completing the Associate of Arts or the Associate of Science degree at Schoolcraft College.
Degrees
Transfer Degrees
Psychology
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PSYCH 153 - Human Relations
Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: This course is designed particularly for students in the career curricula. The course focuses upon a better understanding of human behavior as related to interpersonal relations on the job. Foundations of human behavior; strategies for effective human relations; fundamental skills of working as a team leader and team member; and ways of anticipating, preventing and coping with challenges of human relations are major areas of study.
Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
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Course Competencies
- Identify key concepts in human relations.
- Examine self-concept and self-esteem in human relations.
- Describe self-awareness and self-disclosure in the workplace.
- Explain the relationship between attitudes and values in human relations.
- Examine theories of motivation.
- Evaluate the role of communication in the workplace.
- Examine leadership styles and strategies.
- Identify the characteristics of emotional intelligence.
- Identify strategies to manage anger and defensiveness.
- Examine life changes, personal change and organizational change.
- Identify creativity in the workplace.
- Examine types and sources of conflict, styles of conflict management and conflict resolution techniques.
- Identify causes and sources of stress, costs of stress in the workplace and coping mechanisms.
- Explain how a diverse society affects human relations.
- Explain ethics and social responsibility.
- Identify characteristics of a productive workplace.
- Explore human resource management practices, including interviewing and appraising employees.
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PSYCH 201 - Introductory Psychology
Credits: 4
Lecture Contact Hours: 4
Description: Principles of human thought and action with emphasis on individuals in their environment; individual differences in intelligence and personality; effects of heredity and environment on the organism; and the nervous system, perception, learning, intelligence, motivation and emotion and social relationships will be explored.
Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: Successful completion of courses in Biology and Social Science at the 100 level.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
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Course Competencies
- Evaluate psychological studies with a research methodology approach.
- Apply statistical reasoning and concepts to psychological research.
- Explain the structures and the functions of brain anatomy.
- Analyze the influences of nature and nurture on behavior and mental processes.
- Compare the biological, cognitive and social changes across the life-span.
- Examine the major conceptual and theoretical orientation in social psychology.
- Apply the major concepts and theoretical approaches to learning.
- Classify common psychological disorders.
- Explain the major processes involved in human memory.
- Summarize different states of consciousness and their impact on behavior and mental processes.
- Apply emotions, stress and health models to everyday human behaviors and mental processes.
- Compare theoretical orientations in the study of personality.
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PSYCH 205 - Psychology of Adjustment
Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: Factors and processes involved in the adjustment of the individual to personal and social environment are the main focus of this course. Essentials for the development of an effective and mentally healthy individual are emphasized. Foundations for adjustment, personal lifestyle adjustment, interpersonal relationships, adjustment throughout life and coping with maladjustment are major areas of study.
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 with a minimum grade of 2.0.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Fall Only
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Course Competencies
- Evaluate psychological adjustment studies using a research methodology approach.
- Compare and contrast the theories of personality.
- Apply research on stress to your personal behaviors and mental processes.
- Apply research on health to your personal behaviors and mental processes.
- Determine healthier behaviors in coping with and resolving problems.
- Interpret the self in relation to the larger social context.
- Explain how your behavior is influenced by others and how you influence other people.
- Identify key factors involved in friendship and love.
- Apply research on communication to your own personal behaviors and interactions with others.
- Identify healthy and destructive behaviors.
- Examine psychological and physical changes that occur from adolescence through adulthood.
- Apply psychological adjustment to the workplace.
- Classify common psychological disorders.
- Evaluate different therapies for the treatment of psychological disorders.
- Compare and contrast gender roles and gender differences.
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PSYCH 206 - Human Sexuality
Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: This course examines a variety of facets of human sexuality from the biological, psychological and social perspectives. We will investigate the intersections of sexuality and gender and survey the biological and psychological research concerned with constructs such as: anatomy, normative function, dysfunction and treatment, family planning methods, sexual communication, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual variation and attitudes toward one’s body. Critical issues directly and indirectly associated with sexual behavior will also be addressed.
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 with a minimum grade of 2.0.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Fall, Winter
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Course Competencies
- Compare and contrast the predominant theories in human sexuality.
- Evaluate research methods in the study of human sexuality.
- Explain the value of multicultural perspectives to the current study of human sexuality.
- Identify anatomical and physiological factors relating to the sexes.
- Evaluate gender: its definition and relationship to sexuality and society and the critique of gender as a construct.
- Compare and contrast the processes of sexual arousal and response.
- Identify methods of contraception, conception, pregnancy and childbirth.
- Differentiate between different types of sexually transmitted diseases, the behaviors leading to them and prevention methods.
- Identify paraphilias and the changing nature of social acceptance of sexual behaviors.
- Analyze how values and ethics influence human sexuality, choices and attitudes.
- Analyze power and sexual coercion.
- Evaluate the discourse on sexuality in the media and society.
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PSYCH 207 - Social Psychology
Credits: 4
Lecture Contact Hours: 4
Description: Regarded as a core area in psychology, social psychology examines the influence of social factors on human behavior. Particular topics include aggression, prejudice, group processes, attitude formation, the law, prosocial behavior, interpersonal attraction and social cognition.
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 with a minimum grade of 2.0.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Fall, Winter
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Course Competencies
- Explain the major conceptual and theoretical orientations in the study of social psychology.
- Evaluate social psychology studies with a statistical and research methodology approach.
- Using a scientific approach analyze the interaction of the person and the situation on behavior.
- Relate social cognition to everyday situations.
- Analyze the influence of social influence on presenting the self.
- Discriminate different social factors on attitudes and persuasion.
- Explain social factors for conformity, compliance and obedience.
- Explain social factors in affiliations and the formation of friendships.
- Explain social factors involved in love and romantic relationships.
- Analyze prosocial and helping behavior.
- Interpret social factors that lead to aggression.
- Analyze the positive and negative aspects of the individual within groups.
- Interpret social factors that lead to prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination.
- Analyze social dilemmas that lead to cooperation and conflict.
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PSYCH 209 - Child Psychology
Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: This course examines the general characteristics of development, development of social behavior, feelings, emotions, language, growth of understanding and interests, with emphasis on personality and problems of adjustment.
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 with a minimum grade of 2.0.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Fall
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Course Competencies
- Summarize the contributions and criticisms of the major developmental theories.
- Examine common methods used in developmental research.
- Explain the eclectic perspective of contemporary developmentalists.
- Explain the interaction of biology and culture in the developing person from the prenatal period through adolescence.
- Identify how prenatal development, maternal behavior and parturition influence subsequent development.
- Identify the influences of emotional and social factors on development from birth through adolescence.
- Explain the influences of biological factors on development from birth through adolescence.
- Explain the influences of cognitive factors on development from birth through adolescence.
- Compare the emotional, social, biological and cognitive perspectives of child and adolescent development.
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PSYCH 213 - Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination
Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: This course will explore structure and process in society, institutions, communities, organizations and individuals. Theories of prejudice, discrimination and racism will be addressed. The class will examine the interplay of group privilege and disadvantage within the context of contemporary issues related to race and ethnicity including, but not limited to, conflict and change in the economy, government, religion, education and family.
Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Fall
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Course Competencies
- Explain the concepts of prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes, racism, sexism, ageism and ableism based on sexual orientation or religious identity.
- Contrast the various theories and explanations of prejudice.
- Explain the complexity of race and how race is socially constructed.
- Explore the processes that create dominant and minoritized groups.
- Characterize race and ethnicity and their similarities and differences.
- Identify the impact of prejudice and discrimination of minoritized groups.
- Examine the individual experience of stereotypes.
- Investigate how and why prejudice and discrimination perpetuate inequity.
- Illustrate the effect of migration on prejudice and discrimination.
- Summarize contemporary issues in prejudice and discrimination.
- Evaluate the impact of human rights movements.
- Examine the restorative justice model in understanding collective well-being.
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PSYCH 219 - Adult Development
Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: This course studies adult development and aging. It focuses on the developmental changes related to biological, psychological and social processes. Coping strategies and intervention techniques will be examined.
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 with a minimum grade of 2.0.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter Only
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Course Competencies
- Summarize the contributions and criticisms of the major developmental theories.
- Describe the eclectic perspective of contemporary developmentalists.
- Describe common mistakes made in the interpretation of research.
- Examine cultural and ethnic diversity views on aging.
- Evaluate the relationship between health and certain lifestyle factors that impact middle adulthood.
- Identify measures for increasing health during middle adulthood.
- Examine changes in memory, attention and learning in adulthood.
- Evaluate changes in cognition, and emotion in adulthood.
- Define ageism.
- Explain the contributions of gerontology to changing views about old age.
- Describe religious and cultural variations in how death is viewed and treated.
- Discuss secondary aging as a cause of cognitive decline.
- Discuss alternative care arrangements for the frail elderly, identifying some of the potential advantages and disadvantages of each.
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PSYCH 229 - Lifespan Developmental Psychology
Credits: 4
Lecture Contact Hours: 4
Description: This course provides an in-depth overview of the concept of human development, which encompasses the growth and learning of humans from conception to death. The course will explore biological structures, cognitive growth and psychosocial changes that take place during human development contextualized in the social structures and culture that affect them. These themes are explored with an understanding of the theories and research findings across the lifespan.
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 with a minimum grade of 2.0.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
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Course Competencies
- Summarize the contributions of the major theories in developmental psychology.
- Examine the interpretation of research in developmental psychology.
- Examine different research methods, concepts and terminology in lifespan development.
- Examine physical development throughout the lifespan.
- Examine neurological development throughout the lifespan.
- Differentiate theories of language learning and current views on language learning.
- Explain the cultural, economic and geographic influences on development at each stage of life.
- Interpret the relationship between health and certain lifestyle factors and measures for increasing health throughout the lifespan.
- Examine cognitive changes throughout the lifespan.
- Evaluate psychosocial and emotional development throughout the lifespan.
- Explore attitudes about death and dying.
- Evaluate current perspectives on aging.
- Explore how social support affects development throughout the lifespan.
- Explore how social institutions and cultural values affect development throughout the lifespan.
- Explain the relationships and applications of lifespan development concepts and principles to personal experience.
- Examine milestone events related to the various periods of the lifespan.
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PSYCH 239 - Abnormal Psychology
Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: This course examines various psychological disorders from a contemporary perspective, specifically exploring anxiety disorders (phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder), categories of personality disorders (bi-polar and depressive disorders), schizophrenia and several others. The underlying pathology and treatments of each disorder will be covered. Legal, ethical and other current health psychology will also be explored.
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 with a minimum grade of 2.0.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
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Course Competencies
- Compare the current dominant theories in abnormal psychology.
- Summarize research methods in the study of abnormal psychology.
- Explain assessments for the diagnosis of mental disorders.
- Explain the anxiety disorders.
- Compare bi-polar and depressive disorders.
- Explain neurodevelopmental, disruptive, conduct and elimination disorders.
- Evaluate the somatoform symptom and related disorders, dissociative and factitious disorders.
- Explain the feeding and eating disorders.
- Explain substance-related and addictive disorders.
- Examine the aging and neurocognitive disorders.
- Explain gender variations, sexual dysfunctions and paraphilic disorders.
- Explain schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders.
- Distinguish between the different categories of personality disorders.
- Identify current issues in health psychology.
- Examine the legal and ethical issues in abnormal psychology.
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PSYCH 249 - Educational Psychology
Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: Principles of human thought and action with emphasis on individuals in their environment; individual differences in intelligence and personality; effects of heredity and environment on the organism; the nervous system, perception, learning, intelligence, motivation and emotion, and social relationships will be explored.
Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Fall
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Course Competencies
- Explain key principles and theories that guide teachers.
- Classify differences in cognitive and language development.
- Explain how physical, cognitive, social and emotional development of children impacts learning from birth to adolescence.
- Compare and contrast various learner differences and how they impact learning.
- Explore the role of intelligence in the classroom.
- Explore cognitive theory and its role in teaching and learning.
- Summarize why motivation is essential to teaching and learning.
- Explore the role of discipline as it relates to classroom management.
- Outline models of instruction.
- Explore various teaching methods.
- Compare and contrast the different types of assessment.
- Evaluate the role of standardized testing.
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PSYCH 252 - Introduction to Sport Psychology
Credits: 3
Lecture Contact Hours: 3
Description: This course examines the relationship between psychology and sport from the perspective of theory, research and practice. Topics include the areas of cognition, motivation, personality, social, lifespan and mental health as they apply to sports and exercise. Areas such as goal setting, dealing with anxiety and stress, athletic injury, addressing addictive and unhealthy behaviors, psychological skills training and violence in sports will be covered in the course.
Prerequisites: PSYCH 201 with a minimum grade of 2.0.
Corequisites:
Recommended:
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Social Science
This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements.
This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Fall, Winter
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Course Competencies
- Explore sport psychology.
- Examine the biopsychosocial model in relation to sports and exercise.
- Explain motivational factors related to sports and exercise.
- Examine social psychology in sports and exercise.
- Examine lifespan issues (including youth) in sports and exercise.
- Explain cognitive and behavioral strategies in sports and exercise.
- Critique personality theories and research as related to the athlete.
- Examine arousal, stress and anxiety in sports and exercise.
- Examine mental health issues in sports and exercise.
- Examine the psychology of athletic injury.
- Examine addictive and unhealthy behaviors in sports and exercise.
- Explore the problems and effectiveness of goal setting in sports and exercise.
- Explain psychological skills training.
- Explore aggression and violence in sports.
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