Research term project conducted individually by the student under the guidance of a faculty member. Results in a written project report. (Grade: Satisfactory - Unsatisfactory).

Research term project conducted individually by the student under the guidance of a faculty member. Results in a written project report. (Grade: Satisfactory - Unsatisfactory).

Research term project conducted individually by the student under the guidance of a faculty member. Culminates in a written project report. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and director.

Aimed at applying learnings from the Executive MBA program to a managerial problem in business practice and integrating knowledge across disciplines to develop a solution. Challenges: identifying relevant problems, linking academic insight with business practice, creatively developing solutions, and taking leadership in decision-making and implementation. Key deliverable: individually written report that includes an analysis of the problem, a well-motivated solution, and an action plan for implementation.

Psychopathology and therapeutics as applied to current practice. An historical perspective with the major psychiatric diagnoses defined along with the therapies.

Foundations of psychology; perception; learning; motivation; intelligence; personality and social relations.

Foundations of psychology; perception; learning; motivation; intelligence; personality and social relations.

Research process and basic research concepts; critical framework to examine social science problems and evaluate research; constructing social explanations; concept of causality; measurement, sampling, questionnaire construction; experimental methodology, ethnomethodology, document study; philosophy of social science.

The individual as a member of social groups and social psychological perspectives on issues such as aggression and violence, bystander intervention, obedience, conformity, attitudes, prejudice, and attribution.

Theories and research, including behavioral and cognitive perspectives, and such topics as classical conditioning, operant conditioning, social learning, insight learning, and information processing.

Human development from birth to old age. Different spheres of development are studied, such as cognitive, socio-emotional and moral, both from an individual and interactional perspective.

Data collection techniques, data analysis, and interpretation; making inferences from data using statistical tools such as t-test, ANOVA, ANCOVA, and MANOVA and individual or group research projects with an emphasis on experimental methodology.

Etiology and symptoms of psychopathological behavior from different theoretical perspectives including psychodynamic, physiological, behaviorist, cognitive, and humanistic.

Major personality theories, including psychodynamic, social learning, cognitive, and trait-theory approaches.

Reviews major theories and empirical findings on consumer behavior; relates them to design and execution of effective marketing strategy. Individual decision making and consumer learning; external influences such as culture, social class, reference groups, family, and situational variables.

Reviews major theories and empirical findings on consumer behavior; relates them to design and execution of effective marketing strategy. Individual decision making and consumer learning; external influences such as culture, social class, reference groups, family, and situational variables.

Reviews major theories and empirical findings on consumer behavior; relates them to design and execution of effective marketing strategy. Individual decision making and consumer learning; external influences such as culture, social class, reference groups, family, and situational variables.

Detailed examination of current topics in Psychology.

Overview of theories and science of practice in clinical psychology, with particular focus on the process and specific interventions in psychotherapy as informed by different perspectives.

Measure psychological constructs and interpret test results; test construction, standardization, reliability and validity; factor analysis; multi-dimensional scaling; and various standardized tests of intelligence and personality.

Studies and models in verbal learning, information processing, and connectionist frameworks. Current research and applications are examined.

Children?s thought and its development, including changing conceptions of physical reality and the development of logical thinking and intelligence. Current research and applications are examined.

Review of descriptive statistics and basic research methodology. Experimental methods and research design including one-way analyses, factorial designs, repeated measures, analysis of covariance, and the analyses of main effects, simple effects and interaction comparisons. Research and publication ethics.

This is a required course for both Social Psychology and Developmental Psychology doctoral programs. The formation of the self and its interaction with social-psychological-cognitive processes are studied in socio-cultural context and from developmental, cultural, and cross-cultural perspectives. The main topic of this course is the self, which has its antecedents in the beginnings of American psychology on the one hand, and in social psychological and sociological symbolic interactionism on the other hand. It is emphasized that self is the key to individual-society interface and is important for the theoretical advancement of both universal psychology and also for psychological applications directed at human well-being.