Work Placement
Optional co-op work placement (4 months) with an approved employer.
Restriction: open to PSYC Co-op students.
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.
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.
Restriction: open to all students until date specified in BIRT guide and then open to students with permission of the Department.
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, emotional and social development.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC and LING majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in CHYS 2F10.
Cognition
Acquisition and utilization of knowledge. Topics include information processing and connectionism, 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 BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the 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: at least one OAC Mathematics or equivalent background recommended.
Introduction to Personality
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 BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the 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 BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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 per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC and NEUR majors with a minimum 67 percent major average until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the 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 BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the 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 BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade 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 symbol formation.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC 2F97, 2P92, 2P96 and 2P97.
Media Psychology
(also offered as COMM 3F10)
Psychological aspects of media as entertainment and information, including social factors and cultural environments (e.g. sex, violence, sports, music, news, talk shows).
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, COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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 BIRT 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 BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Psychological Research
Research methods in several areas of psychology emphasizing developing 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) 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).
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 humans, including both theoretical and applied issues. Topics include physiological control of food intake; biological, social and cultural factors influencing food selection; the effects of food on behaviour; eating disorders; and obesity and weight control.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: 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 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 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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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/BEd, and CHYS (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 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 BIRT 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 BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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 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), 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 2F10.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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 CHYS 2F10 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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 and permission of the Department.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F23.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register. Contact the Department.
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 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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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 and PSYC minors 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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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 credit 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 BIRT 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 BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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
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 BIRT guide.
Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC 2P91.
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, self concept and the effects of stress 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 BIRT 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 BIRT guide. Contact the 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 BIRT 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 BIRT guide. Contact the 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 1F91 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC (CHYS/LING) 2P98.
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/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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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 BA/BEd and CHYS (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.
Prerequisites: PSYC 1F90; one of PSYC 2F23, MATH 1F92 or, for combined CHYS/SOCI majors and PSYC minors, SOCI 2P11 and 2P13 (2F10) (may be taken concurrently).
Note: this is not a computer programming course.
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. Students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Words in the Mind
(also offered as COMM 3P88)
Focus is on the mental lexicon, including basic components, vocabulary, 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, LING 1F94 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Motivation and Emotion
Physiological, evolutionary, develop-mental and social perspectives. Topics include thirst, hunger, pain, fear, reproduction, arousal, stress, anger, aggression, happiness, sadness, love and attachment.
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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Drugs and Behaviour
Basic principles of the kinetics of drugs and drug action, tolerance and drug interactions. Effects of psychoactive drugs on behaviour and experience. Focus on recreational drugs and the use of psychoactive medications in psychiatry.
Lectures, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC 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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Infant Development
Development of infants from the prenatal period through the second year of life. Topics include perception, cognition, attachment and social development; at-risk 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, CHYS 2F10 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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 (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC, LING 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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Stress
Stress as related to occupations, environments, life events; methods of appraisal, ways of coping and conse-quences 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) 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: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Human Psychophysiology
Concepts related to acquisition and analysis of bioelectrical signals recorded from the brain, papillary system, skeletomuscular 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 BIRT 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 BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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. Emphasizing mechanisms and consequences of drug action on selected neurotransmitter systems (dopaminergic, cholinergic, seroto-nergic).
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHSC, HLSC 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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Introduction to Human Neuropsychology
(also offered as NEUR 3P98)
Focus on brain function as indicated through an examination of 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 and NEUR 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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Theories and research methods in cognitive neuropsychology, focusing 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 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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the 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 emphasizing cognitive and social strategies used to resolve conflicts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHYS BA/BEd and CHYS (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT 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 in PSYC (CHYS) 3Q93.
Consciousness and Society
(also offered as PHIL 3Q90)
Psychoanalytic approaches to modern clinical pathologies of narcissism, transpersonal psychologies of meditation and consciousness, and socio-cultural approaches to radical salvation movements are used to examine both the nature and history of religious-mystical experience and the repeated appearance of mystical movements and gnostic cults throughout the 20th century emphasizing 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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Second Language 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.
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 BA/BEd and CHYS (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, CHYS 2F10 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; 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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
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.
Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Psychology of Women
(also offered as WISE 3R90)
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. 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 and Women's Studies may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned credit in WISE (PSYC) 2P93.
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 BIRT 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 BIRT guide. Contact the Department.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC 2P94.
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 with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits.
Prerequisite: PSYC 2F12 or CHYS 2F10.
Note: students will participate in a practicum placement on a weekly basis throughout the course.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC (CHYS) 4P31 and 4P32.
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) majors until the date specified in the BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum 13.5 overall credits.
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).
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 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 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.
Applications and Theories of Human Development
Integration of classical and contemporary theories of human development, focusing on the connection between theory and application, including analysis of social policies and practice.
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.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC 4F11.
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 and NEUR 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 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.
Social Psychology of Justice
Social psychological research and theories, including equity theory and relative deprivation, in relation to the concept of justice. Exporation 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 pheno-menological perspectives on conscious-ness 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).
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 emphasizing 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; the role of heredity in understanding human development.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined), CHYS BA/BEd, CHYS (single or combined) and NEUR majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 13.0 overall credits or 5.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in PSYC (CHYS) 3P56.
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 approval to year 4.
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 detailed study of research relevant to the topic of their honours thesis.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
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.
2003-2004: Personality Theory and Applications
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.
Restriction: open to PSYC (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
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.