DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

COURSE GUIDE

FALL 2005

Rutgers University, Camden
Room 301, Armitage Hall - (856) 225-6520
http://psychology.camden.rutgers.edu

50:830:100. INTRODUCTORY TOPICS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Freshman Seminar: The Fundamentals of Psychology
01: TTh 3:00 p.m., Adelson, by permission only - ARM 207
This course offers a rigorous survey of the central topics studied by psychologists who see the discipline as a science. We look at the classic experiments and the state of current theory. We confront the tension which scientists experience, in saying that some things are uncertain and ambiguous, while other things are clearly known. We will cover issues in the areas of conditioning, cognition, development, social interaction and psychopathology. Attendance at all sessions is required, we will have frequent exams and quizzes, as well as student-led question and discussion sessions.

50:830:101. INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
01: MWF 10:10 a.m., Rantuccio - PEN 401
40: TTh 7:30 p.m., Rantuccio - PEN 401
Why does the moon look closer when it is on the horizon than it does when it is high in the sky? Is it true that the genders are so different that one should say that men are from Mars and women from Venus? Should businesses and the government use lie-detector tests to evaluate the honesty of their employees? Can hypnosis uncover repressed memories of child abuse? Has television driven people to murder? Are personality traits learned from parents or a reflection of genes? The answers to these questions draw upon the scientific study of mind and behavior, the subject matter of introductory psychology. We shall explore areas of psychology relevant to these questions and many others in the course of the semester.

50:830:206. PSYCHOLOGY OF MARRIAGE & FAMILY
01: TTh 9:30 a..m., Spector - PEN 401
Prerequisite: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
This course examines the institutions of the family: how it has been and is currently defined, maintained, and transformed, as well as the social roles and structures of families.

50:830:215. STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE
01: MWF 9:05 a.m., Rantuccio - ARM 123
40: MW 7:30 p.m., Tucker - FA 110
Prerequisite: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
The federal government has just released some new statistics, and here they are: 12%, 27%, 6%, and 35%. In this course we will attempt to convince you that "statistics" is more than just a meaningless jumble of percentages and that understanding something about data analysis can be of practical benefit in your daily (i.e., non-academic) life. And even if that idealistic goal is not attained, you need stat to get through Experimental.

50:830:225. METHOD & THEORY IN PSYCHOLOGY
01: MWF 9:05 a.m., Marmorstein - FA 242
02: TTh 1:30 p.m., Duffy - FA 242
Prerequisite: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
This course will examine issues involved in conducting effective research in psychology. Students will learn about different research designs and strategies used to conduct studies in various settings (e.g., laboratory versus field settings). Primary objectives of this course will be learning to critically evaluate research studies as well as learning about the mechanics involved in designing a research study (e.g., literature reviews, data collection methods). Ethical issues in conducting research will also be emphasized. This a writing-intensive course.

50:830:235. INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
01: MWF 9:05 a.m., Roseman - PEN 401
Credit not given for both this course and 50:830:335. Not recommended for psychology majors.
A survey of research and theory concerning humans as they influence and are influenced by their social environment; includes small group studies, social influences in communication, attitutde formation and change, and social perception, as well as aspects of larger interpersonal settings, such as the family and the organization.

50:830:325. PSYCHOLOGY OF CHILDHOOD
01: TTh 4:30 p.m., Duffy - SLH
Prerequisite: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
The study of child behavior from infancy through adolescence, with emphasis on psychological theory and research underlying the development of perception, cognition, language, and social and emotional behavior.

50:830:335. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
01: MWF 11:15 a.m., Roseman - FA 219
Prerequisite: 50:830:100 101. Credit not given for both this course and 50:830:235.
The psychological study of the individual in interaction with the social environment. Topics include social cognition, attitutdes and behavior, cultural and group influence, conformity, persuasion, prejudice, aggression, interpersonal attraction, and prosocial behavior. Applications of social psychology to real world problems are discussed.

50:830:350. INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY
40: MW 6:00 p.m., Bezrukova - ARM 121
Prerequisite: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
Psychology of industrial and human relations; personnel selection and placement; worker morale, motivation, and efficiency; work teams and leadership; training and development; organizational culture and change.

50:830:352. LEGAL & SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MENTAL HEALTH
01: MW 4:20 p.m., Tucker - PEN 401
Prerequisite: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
A critical discussion of the mental health system and the assumptions on which it is based. Special attention paid to related social and political issues, such as involuntary commitment and imposed treatment.

50:830:358. INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
01: TTh 11:00 a.m., Spector - ARM 106
Prerequisite: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235, and 363; and permission of instructor.
This intensive seminar for psychology majors introduces the theories and practices of clinical psychology. Students learn by doing a series of exercises, role plays, workshops, and case presentations, designed to familiarize them with a wide range of clinical responsibilities.

50:830:363. ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
01: MWF 11:15 a.m., Marmorstein - PEN 401
40: TTh 6:00 p.m., Rantuccio - A121
Prerequisite: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to the study of abnormal behavior and psychopathology. The primary goal is to facilitate students' ability to describe major psychological disorders; we will also, to a lesser extent, discuss causal factors and treatments for different disorders. Other related topics, such as historical perspectives on psychopathology, methods of assessment, and ethical/legal issues, will be briefly covered as well.

50:830:371. PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSONALITY
01: TTh 8:00 a.m., Haworth - PEN 401
Prerequisite: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
Examination of theoretical and research approaches to the understanding of individual behavior, considering both individual traits and situational sources of influence.

50:830:373. PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN
40: TTh 6:00 p.m., Adelson - PEN 401
Prerequisites: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
The class features lively discussion and welcomes the perspectives of women and men students. We discuss ways in which each gender is fun and each gender is limited by society's expectations. We begin with the psychological impact of being a woman and a man. We then view research and theory on the development of gender differences throughout the life cycle and across society, culture and history.

50:830:380. LABORATORY IN EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
01: T 3:00 p.m., Bravo - ARM B-23
02: Th 3:00 p.m., Bravo - ARM B-23
Prerequisites: 50:830:100, or 101or 235; and 215 and 225, and senior status. Corequisite: 40:830:381:01.

50:830:381. EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
01: TTh 1:30 p.m., Bravo - ARM 201
Prerequisites: 50:830:100, or 101or 235, and 215, and 225, and senior status. Corequisite: 40:830:380:01 or 02.
This is a required course for senior psych majors. If that's you, then you already know lots of "facts" about psych. The goal is to get you to think critically about these facts, to question the evidence that supports them, and to consider ways of testing them. You will learn about the research process in part by designing, conducting and interpreting your own research study, and by thinking carefully about research studies that are reported in scientific journals and in the mainstream media. This is a writing intensive course.

50:830:383. EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
01: MWF 8:00 a.m., Haworth - ARM 121
No prerequisite.
This course will examine how individuals develop and learn, with emphasis on applications to teaching behavior. Focus is on psychological theories and research underlying students' information-processing skills, parental and peer relationships, motivation, diversity, and classroom management, along with issues in testing and assessment.

50:830:408. PSYCHOLOGY OF ADJUSTMENT
01: MW 4:20 p.m., Joiner - FA110
Prerequisites: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
The interaction of psychological and environmental factors determining the mental health of an individual, with special emphasis on individual problems of personality development and adjustment. Topics include: development and adjustment issues relating to vulnerability to psychopathology, personality disorders and clinical syndromes; interactions between genes and environment; narrative perspective to personality and adjustment; and future directions.

50:830:415. NEGOTIATIONS
01: MW 2:50 p.m., Bezrukova - ARM 123
Prerequisites: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
Negotiation is the art and science of securing agreements between two or more independent parties. The central issues of this course deal with understanding the behavior of individuals, groups, and organizations in the context of competitive situations. This course combines analytical material on the negotiation process with a series of negotiating experiences, to develop your skills at negotiation, bargaining and conflict resolution. The course encourages you to take risks; analytically think about what you read and observe; honestly reflect about your personal behavior and preferences; and apply course concepts to real experiences.

50:830:458. ST: DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
40: MW 6:00 p.m., Johnson - ARM 207
Prerequisites: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235, and junior or senior status.
The course provides an overview of the psychological disorders that can affect children and adolescents. We will learn how childhood mental illness is
defined, diagnosed and teated. We will use a developmental framework that emphasizes the influence of multiple and interacting events that shape adaptive
and maladaptive childhood development.

50:830:459. ST: EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY
01: MW 1:20 p.m., Thierry - ARM 218
Prerequisite: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235, and junior or senior status.
This seminar course will cover theories and research examining adults' and children's memories of witnessed events. Particular emphasis will be placed on factors that affect the tendency for both adult and child witnesses to confabulate and/or distort their memories of events, as a result of either external sources of misleading information (e.g., being questioned sugggestively by police) or internal sources of information (e.g., imagining or dreaming that something happened). Discussions of real-world cases, such as the high-profile cases during the 1980's involving multi-victim sexual abuse in daycare centers, will be integrated with discussions of theory and research.

50:830:463. ST: PSYCHOLOGY OF URBAN READING
01: Th 1:30 p.m., Wanda Garcia - ARM 219
Prerequisites: 50:830:100, or 101 or 235.
This course will provide students with an introduction to teaching literacy to students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Through readings, class discussions and experiential learning opportunities in the LEAP Academy University Charter School, students will explore methods for developing positive attitudes toward literacy and strategies aimed at overcoming difficulties in reading and writing. Course requirements include six seminars and supervised practicum at LEAP Academy with emphasis given to the preparation, analysis, and evaluation of individualized instructional programs based on case study evaluations.

50:830:494. ADVANCED INDEPENDENT STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGY*
By permission of instructor; hours by arrangement.
01-Bravo, 02-Bezrukova, 03-Duffy, , 04-Garcia, 05-Hart, 06-Markey, 07-Marmorstein, 08-Roseman, 09-Thierry, 10-Tucker, 11-Whitlow, 12-Wogan
The student is required to undertake a term-long or year-long laboratory or library project under the supervision of a member of the department. Strongly recommended for students planning to attend graduate school.

50:830:495. ADVANCED INDEPENDENT STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGY*
By permission of instructor; hours by arrangement.
01-Bravo, 02-Bezrukova, 03-Duffy, , 04-Garcia, 05-Hart, 06-Markey, 07-Marmorstein, 08-Roseman, 09-Thierry, 10-Tucker, 11-Whitlow, 12-Wogan
T he student is required to undertake a term-long or year-long laboratory or library project under the supervision of a member of the department. Strongly recommended for students planning to attend graduate school.

50:830:496. HONORS PROGRAM IN PSYCHOLOGY
01: by arrangement, Garcia
Students interested in the departmental honors program should consult with their adviser before beginning the first term of the senior year. To receive honors in psychology, the student must complete two terms of the departmental honors seminar, 50:830:496 and 497. The honors project must be sponsored by one or more faculty advisers, and the honors proposal must be approved by the department. During the second term of the program, a formal presentation of the outcome of the project must be made to the department. Students may not register for the honors program in psychology without receiving prior permission.

* Students may enroll in 830:493, 494, or 495 for as many credits as they like. Note, however, that students are allowed to apply only 9 credits total from these three classes towards the major; excess credits can be applied to the general requirements.

Major Requirements
The major in psychology requires a minimum of 40 credits, representing 13 credits in required courses and 27 credits in psychology electives. The following four courses of study are required:

• 50:830:101-Introduction to Psychology; or 50:830:100-Freshman Seminar

• 50:830:215-Statistics for Social Science;

• 50:830:225-Method and Theory in Psychology;

• 50:830:381and 380-Experimental Psychology with Laboratory or any other course that has an associated laboratory component in lieu of :381 when designated by Department.

In certain terms, a course with a research component may be offered in lieu of Experimental Psychology with laboratory. Graduating with a major in Psychology requires at least a 2.5 grade-point average in the major and no more than two grades lower than a C in all psychology courses taken at Rutgers. Students may petition the department to request an exception to these requirements if they feel it is warranted. During the third and fourth years, students may take 50:830:495-Research in Psychology or 50:830:493-Individual Supervision of Field Work in Psychology. For these courses students may earn from 1 to 3 credits, depending upon the arrangement with the supervising faculty member. These courses may be repeated, but no more than 9 credits total from these two classes may be used for psychology electives. Students with more than 9 credits in the two courses may use the balance for general electives.

Minor Requirements
Students who wish to minor in psychology must fulfill the following general requirements: at least 18 credits in psychology courses with 6 credits or more at or above the 300 level. Students must have at least a C (2.5) grade-point average for courses applied to the psychology minor; no more than one grade may be lower than a C.

Minor for Management and Accounting Majors
The department also offers a special minor for management and accounting majors. Course 50:830:101-Introduction to Psychology or 50:830:235-Introductory Social Psychology is a prerequisite for all courses in the minor. The student must fulfill the general requirements for minors and select additional courses from among the following: 50:830:325, 341, 363, 371, 385, 393, and 395. A student may petition the department to have other courses added to this list. Students completing this minor must have at least a C (2.0) grade-point average in all courses applied toward the minor; no more than one grade may be lower than a C.

Teacher Preparation Program for Certification
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Mary Bravo, Associate Professor of Psychology.
Major research interest: visual processes involved in perceptual organization.

Charlotte Castro-Markey, Assistant Professor of Psychology.
Major research interests: development of eating-related behaviors; eating disorders; adolescents' behavioral health; relations between personality and health.

Sean Duffy, Assistant Professor of Psychology.
Major research interests: development of quantitative reasoning and representation in children, category use in reconstructive memory, and cultural variations in psychological processes.

Luis Garcia, Chair, and Professor of Psychology.
Major research interests: social cognitions about sexuality.

Dan Hart, Associate Dean & Professor of Psychology.
Major research interests: development of the sense of self; personality development; moral development and behavior.

Naomi Marmorstein, Assistant Professor of Psychology.
Major research interests: internalizing disorders (depression, anxiety) in children and adolescents; the co-occurrence of internalizing disorders and externalizing disorders (e.g., conduct disorder) in youth.

Ira Roseman, Associate Professor of Psychology.
Major research interests: cognitive determinants of emotion; cross-cultural psychology; belief systems; political cognition; human motivation.

Joseph Rantuccio, Instructor of Psychology.

Karen Thierry, Assistant Professor of Psychology.
Major research interests: development of young children's ability to discriminate the origins, or sources, of their memories and knowledge; does monitoring source (e.g., distinguishing between events that really happened and those that were merely imagined) enhance the accuracy and completeness of children's eyewitness testimony, particularly recall of allegations of sexual abuse.

Bill Tucker, Professor of Psychology.
Major research interests: ethics in science; the relations of social policy and psychological research; the nature of research on racial differences.

Bill Whitlow, Professor of Psychology.
Major research interests: noncontingent learning; implicit memory; cognitive bases of human and nonhuman animal memory; evolution of memory; computational models of learning and memory.

Michael Wogan, Emeritus.
Major research interests: clinical psychology with interest in the interface between psychology and law.

Fall 2005 Office Hours - (Fall Offce Hours will be available the sencond week of the semester)

Beth Adelson
Room 311, x6485
adelson@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Tues & Thurs - 5:15-6:00 p.m.
& by appointment

Katerina Bezrukova
Room 307, x6120
bezrukov@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Monday - 4:10-6:00 p.m.
& by appoiontment

Mary Bravo
Room 347, x6431/6732
mbravo@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Mon & Wed - 10:00-11:00 a.m.
& by appointment

Sean Duffy
Room 343
seduffy@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Tues & Thurs 3:00-4:00 p.m.
& by appointment

Luis Garcia
Room 344, x6619
lgarcia@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Mon, Wed - 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
& by appointment

Daniel Hart
Room - 3rd floor of Children's Center, x6438
hart@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: by appointment

Thomas Haworth
Room 459, x2986
thaworth@jjp.org
Office Hours: by appointment

Rita Johnson
Room 459, x2986
Rijohnso@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Mon & Wed - 5:00-6:00 p.m.
& by appointment

Joseph Joiner
Room 459, x2986
joiner@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Mon & Wed - 3:30-4:00 p.m.
& by appointment

Charlotte Markey (on leave this semester)
Room 348, x6332
chmarkey@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: by appointment

Naomi Marmorstein
Room 308, x6434
marmorst@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Mon & Wed - 12:15-1:15 p.m.
& by appointment

Joe Rantuccio
Room 310, x6535
rantucci@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Mon & Wed - 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.;
Tues & Thurs - 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.; & by appointment

Ira Roseman
Room 306, x6341
roseman@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Mon, Wed, Fri - 10:10-11:10 a.m.
& by appointment

Ann Spector
Room 459, x2986
arspecto@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday - 8:10-9:10 a.m.

Karen Thierry
Room 309,x6141
kthierry@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Mon & Wed - 12:00 Noon-1:00 p.m.
& by appointment

William Tucker
Room 345, x6545
btucker@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: Mon & Wed - 6:00-7:00 p.m.
& by appointment

J. William Whitlow (on leave this semester)
Room 346, x6334
bwhitlow@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: by appointment

Michael Wogan
Room 342, x6089
mwogan@camden.rutgers.edu
Office Hours: by appointment

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