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, 3Q91 and 3Q92.
Life Span Development
Introduction to the conceptual bases of life span development, a survey of relevant research and an overview of methodological issues. Topics illustrating life span developmental research and theory will be drawn from the following areas: intellectual, moral, personality, physiological, sexual and social development.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, LING and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHYS(CHST) 2F10.
Cognition
Acquisition and utilization of knowledge. Topics include attention and memory, concepts, imagery and cognitive maps, problem solving and reasoning, judgment and decision making, language and thought, intelligence and creativity, cognitive development, applications of cognitive psychology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Statistics and Research Design in the Behavioural Sciences
Principles of experimental design, systematic assessment and data analysis in the context of psychological research.
Lectures, tutorial, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90 or one Social Science credit.
Note: at least one OAC Mathematics or equivalent background recommended.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC 2F24.
Introduction to Personality
Main approaches/theories of personality, current issues and applications.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
An Introduction to Social Psychology
Theories, methods, research and issues of contemporary social psychology. Topics include social perception and cognition, attitudes, influence, attraction, aggression, altruism, communication, conflict, group and collective behaviour; the psychological study of social issues pertaining to prejudice, law, environment and health.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), COMM (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Physiological Psychology
(also offered as NEUR 2F36)
Biological aspects of behaviour; the functional activities of the neuron and the interrelationships among neural systems (brain organization). Topics include the psychobiology of sensory and motivational systems, emotion and affect, learning, memory, language and consciousness.
Lectures, 2 hours per week; lab, 3 hours alternating weeks.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, NEUR and WKHL majors with a minimum 67 percent major average until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
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. Emphasis on learning in nonhuman animals.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Perception
Theoretical problems and actual mechanisms of seeing and hearing. Basic problems of pattern recognition, memory and attention; the influence of culture, motivation, personality and pathology on perception.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, NEUR and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Health Psychology
Psychological aspects of health and illness. The prevention and treatment of illness and the maintenance of wellness. The behavioural and social factors that play a role in the etiology of health and illness. Contributions from scientific investigation and from professionals in the health care system.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and CHSC, HLSC and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Psychology of Women
(also offered as WISE 2P93)
Social, personal and political implications of gender. Topics include theoretical perspectives on the study of gender differences, stereotypes, sexuality, biological influences, as well as issues related to achievement, intimacy, mental and physical health, power and justice.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and WISE majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90 or WISE 1F90.
Psychology of Men
History of psychological thought about maleness, 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 masculinity/maleness, and issues related to selfawareness, 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 BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Experiential Psychology
States of consciousness (dreaming and altered states of awareness) as an alternative approach in psychology. Contemporary and historical research on dreams, meditation, hypnosis, and psychedelic drugs are considered from the perspectives and their phenomenological, neurocognitive, personality and socialcultural bases.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC 2F97 and PSYC 2P92.
The Nature of Consciousness
Contemporary approaches to consciousness including phenomenological, cognitive, neurophysiological, and evolutionary bases of awareness, with emphasis on the use of transpersonal and altered states of consciousness to illuminate the processes underlying human experience.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2P96 (2P92).
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC 2F97.
Child Language Acquisition: Early Stages
(also offered as CHYS 2P98 and LING 2P98)
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. The effect of interaction with care givers. Early bilingualism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 1F91 or PSYC 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHST 2P98.
Child Language Acquisition: Late Stages
(also offered as CHYS 2P99 and LING 2P99)
Later acquired aspects of language, especially syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. Development of ability to use linguistic ambiguity, humour. Reading and writing skills, registers. Abnormal language development.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: LING 2P98 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHST 2P99.
Media Psychology
(also offered as COMM 3F10)
Psychological aspects of media as entertainment and information, as social factors and cultural environments.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and COMM (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90 or COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Abnormal Psychology
Major theories which have emerged to explain aberrant and dysfunctional behaviour are considered and evaluated. Consideration is given to the scientific, moral/ethical and political foundation of this area of study.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Psychological Research
Research methods in several areas of psychology; emphasis on developing the student's capacity to evaluate psychological hypotheses through participation in group and individual research projects.
Lectures,3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) with a minimum 75 percent major average. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F23.
Corequisite: PSYC 3P39(must be taken in the Fall session).
Note: NEUR majors should consult the Neuroscience calendar entry.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC 3P30.
Psychology of Eating
Biological and environmental factors influencing food consumption in animals and in humans, both theoretical and applied issues. Topics include physiological control of food intake; the nature and importance of taste and smell; biological, social and cultural factors influencing the choice of foods; the effects of food upon behaviour; abnormal foodrelated behaviours, such as overeating, anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Neuroscience
(also offered as NEUR 3F91)
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.
Lectures, 2 hours per week, lab, 3 hours alternating weeks.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, NEUR and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT 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.
Personality Assessment and Research
Issues in the general areas of individual social development, interpersonal communication, person perception, friendship formation, personality change, implicit personality theory, schizophrenia, neurosis, marital, individual and group therapy, perception of the environment, professional training and role playing.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Theories in Developmental Psychology
(also offered as CHYS 3P11)
Theories in developmental psychology and recent controversies and evidence.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHYS (single or combined) and CHYS BA/BEd majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS (CHST) 2F10.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHST 3P11.
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, HLSC and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Psychology of Parenting
(also offered as CHYS 3P23)
Determinants, varieties and consequences of parenting. Focus on psychological research findings in contemporary parenting/parenthood issues. Topics include the transition to parenthood, different styles of parenting, dualcareer parents and abusive parents.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHYS (single or combined) and CHYS BA/BEd majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS (CHST) 2F10.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHST 3P23.
Psychology of the Exceptional Child
Integration of theoretical, experimental and clinical approaches to the development of the child with special needs, such as the child who is developmentally delayed or perceptually handicapped.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHST 3P96.
Critical Thinking in Psychology
Development of scientific thinking and discovery procedures in psychology. The design of experiments and quasiexperiments. 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.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC 3F40.
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, elite theory 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 BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Psychology of Human Sexuality
Introduction to the psychological study of human sexuality. Psychological methods, along with developmental, social/personality, cognitive, and neuropsychological approaches are applied to different issues in human sexuality, including sexual differentiation, gender identity and sexual orientation, attraction and love, patterns of sexual behaviour, sexual dysfunctions, sex differences in sexual behaviour, erotica and pornography, sexual coercion and paraphilias, and sexually transmitted diseases.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Applied Social Psychology
Theories, research and practice of social psychology as applied to specific areas of personal and social concern, including physical and mental health, law, commerce, environment, communication and gerontology. Methods of conducting applied research, assessing public opinion and evaluating program efficacy. Consideration of Lewin's proposition that "there is nothing so practical as a good theory".
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
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 until date specified in BIRT guide. After that date open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors. Students must have 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.
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 BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC 3F45.
Comparative Psychology II
Advanced topics in comparative psychology; an in depth study of individual species behaviour as well as the study of instincts and aggression across species lines.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 3P45
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade 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
Topic, 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.
Psychology of Western Consciousness
Attention, memory, hemispheric laterality and language are examined from a general systems theory perspective. Topics include altered states of consciousness, lucid dreams, selfconcepts and the effects of stress on consciousness. Western approaches to consciousness are contrasted and integrated with American Indian shamanistic techniques for altering consciousness.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Psychology of Eastern Consciousness
Asian psychology approached from a Buddhist perspective; the history, evolution, and migration of Buddhism. Topics include meditation, Taoism, Zen Buddhism, Sufism 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 BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Sleep and Wakefulness
Functions, mechanisms, rhythms, physiology and psychology of sleep contrasted with counterparts during wakefulness. Current issues in sleep and dream research raised in lecture/seminar and labs. Experimentation encouraged.
Lectures/seminar, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
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) and CHYS BA/BEd majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisites: PSYC 1F90; one of PSYC 2F23, MATH 1F92 or, for combined CHYS/SOCI majors, SOCI 2F10 (may be taken concurrently).
Note: this is not a computer programming course.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHST 3P74.
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 BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Note: PSYC 2F30 recommended.
Words in the Mind
(also offered as COMM 3P88)
Topics include vocabulary growth, mental lexicon, theories of meaning, metaphors and meaning, and selecting and recognizing words in communication.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and COMM (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: one of PSYC 1F90, COMM 1F90 or LING 1F94 or permission of the instructor.
Drugs and Behaviour
Basic principles of drug action and the effects of psychoactive drugs on behaviour and experience. Focus on recreational drugs and the use of drugs in psychiatry.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, NEUR and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Infant Development
Development of infants from the prenatal period through the second year of life. Topics include perception, cognition, attachment and social development; atrisk infants and infant intervention programs.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS (CHST) 2F10 or permission of the instructor.
Psychology of Aging
Focus on 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 (CHST) (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, NEUR and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Stress
Stress as related to occupations, environments, life events; methods of appraisal, ways of coping and consequences for health. Three current approaches: stimulus, process, response. Cognitive, emotional and behavioural factors.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) CHSC, HLSC majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Bases of Neuropsychopharmacology
(also offered as NEUR 3P97)
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. Emphasis on 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, NEUR and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Introduction to Human Neuropsychology
(also offered as NEUR 3P98)
Focus on clinical syndromes that result from brain damage. Topics include disorders of memory, language, attention and problem solving.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, NEUR and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits and 1.0 PSYC credit above PSYC 1F90.
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, HLSC, NEUR and WKHL majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: one of PSYC 2F36, 3P68, 3P98 or permission of the instructor.
Consciousness and Society
(also offered as PHIL 3Q90)
Psychoanalytic approaches to modern clinical pathologies of narcissism, transpersonal psychologies of meditation and consciousness, and sociocultural approaches to radical salvation movements are used to examine both the nature and history of religiousmystical experience and the repeated appearance of mystical movements and gnostic cults throughout the 20th-century. Emphasis on the personal, social, and political conflicts associated with these phenomena.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and PHIL (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
SecondLanguage Acquisition and Learning
(also offered as LING 3Q91)
Theories of second- or 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.
Methodology in SecondLanguage Instruction
(also offered as LING 3Q92)
Approaches to teaching and learning, and their influence on classroom methods. Overview of methods from the Greeks to the modern era.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite: PSYC 3Q91.
Conflict, Contradictions and Development
(also offered as CHYS 3Q93)
Conflict in early human development including the understanding of the causes, management and outcomes of conflicts. Emphasis on 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/BEd majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS (CHST) 2F10 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHST 3Q93.
Advanced Topics in Social Development
(also offered as CHYS 3Q94)
Social competence, aggression, friendship and other topics in social development from a variety of developmental perspectives. Methodological and training 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/BEd majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS (CHST) 2F10 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHST 3Q94.
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; focus 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 BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Theories of Personality: Developments in Psychodynamic and Transpersonal Psychology
(also offered as PHIL 3Q96)
Major developments in the psychoanalytic 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 BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Neuropsychopathology
Integration of neuroscience and psychology to offer hypotheses for mental and neurological pathologies. Topics include the underlying physiological abnormalities associated with disease states such as schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, autism, and cerebrovascular accidents. Emphasis on both the neuroanatomical and neurochemical basis of these and other disorders.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors until date specified in BIRT 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.
Neural Mechanisms of Behaviour
Brain control of motivated behaviour in animals and humans. Functions of the limbic system and behaviour. Neural circuitries involved in initiation of orientation, locomotion and vocalization in animals. Neural mechanisms of translation of motivational limbic signals into behavioural motor acts. Mechanisms of vocal communication. Vocalization and speech.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors until the date specified in the BIRT 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.
Media: Fantasy and Reality
(also offered as COMM 3Q99)
Media images and reality, the role of absorption as well as other personality and cognitive aspects of the experience of reality vs. fantasy, virtual reality, computer effects and images.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and COMM (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90 or COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Applications and Theories of Human Development
Integration of classical and contemporary theories of human development, focussing on the connection between theory and application, including analysis of social policies and practice. Designed to facilitate students' critical thinking about psychological research and theory building.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and CHYS (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits.
Introduction to Clinical Psychology
Issues in assessment techniques, major theories of psychotherapy and research findings concerning treatment strategies for specific disorders.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC and WKHL majors with a minimum 13.5 overall credits.
Literature Review Thesis
Review of the research and theory in a focussed 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).
Prerequisites: PSYC 3P30 and PSYC 3P39.
Note: topics may be selected from a list assigned by the course coordinator or chosen in consultation with a faculty supervisor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade 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) and permission of the department.
Prerequisites: PSYC 3F40 and 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.
Psychology of Addictive Behaviour
Theory and research on substance use. Focus on psychopharmacological, cognitive, psychodynamic and social psychological models and on longitudinal research. Implications for treatment and prevention.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, NEUR and WKHL majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits.
Prerequisite: PSYC 3P92.
Advanced Seminar in Human Memory
Historic and current ideas about memory and the implications these have for our approach to memory in research, in medical and in legal contexts. Topics include hypnosis and memory, eyewitness testimony, varieties of memory disorders and the question of rehabilitation. Various clinical and experimental tools for assessing memory.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and NEUR majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits.
Treatment Alternatives for Children and Adolescents: Dynamic Therapies
(also offered as CHYS 4P31)
Theoretical background, research and evaluation of current therapeutic approaches to emotionally and behaviourally disturbed children and adolescents. Topics include play therapies, nondirective, expressive and Gestalt approaches; group methods, use of modelling, goal setting and evaluation methods.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and CHYS (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS (CHST) 2F10.
Note: students participate in a practicum placement.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHST 4P31.
Treatment Alternatives for Children and Adolescents: Cognitive and Behavioural Approaches
(also offered as CHYS 4P32)
Behavioural theory and techniques; social skills training, cognitive theories, contingency management and relaxation.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and CHYS (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS (CHST) 2F10.
Note: students participate in a practicum placement.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHST 4P32.
The Social Psychology of Justice
Social psychological research and theories, including equity theory and relative deprivation, in relation to the concept of justice. The application of social psychology to the legal system will also be explored, especially 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. Emphasis on 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, plus field work.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits.
Contemporary Approaches to Consciousness
(also offered as PHIL 4P47)
Cognitive, philosophical, neuropsychological, physical and phenomenological perspectives on consciousness including the work of James, Sperry, Gibson, Penrose, Wittgenstein, Husserl and Heidegger and research on metaphor and selforganizing natural systems.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) and PHIL majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits.
Qualitative Methods
Nature and role of qualitative research methodology in psychology in relation to the variety of research functions psychologists perform in the community. Various formal theories with emphasis on program evaluation and action research strategies in the community.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits.
Maturation and Development
(also offered as CHYS 4P56)
Influences of brain physiology and maturation on psychological development and vice versa and the role of heredity in understanding human development.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHYS (single or combined), NEUR and CHYS BA/BEd majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHYS (CHST) 3P56 and PSYC 3P56.
History of Psychology
Historical development of different orientations to psychology. Topics include philosophical and physiological influences in psychology, introspectionism; functionalism, behaviourism, Gestalt theory, psychoanalysis.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4.
Prerequisite: PSYC 3F40 or 3P30.
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
Thesis students undertake detailed study of current research 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).
Corequisite: 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 Comparative Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological 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 and 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.