Official Course Description: The course is an overview of the major areas of psychology, what psychologists do, and the methods employed in the investigation of basic psychological processes underlying human behavior. Areas reviewed may include history, physiological psychology, learning theories, cognition, motivation, emotion, perception and sensation, human development, social psychology, abnormal psychology, therapy, and psychological issues of current debate in popular culture. The concepts examined will be linked to everyday reasoning
and life.
Student Course Description: PSY-105 is an introduction psychology class. It’s an overview of psychology and introduces students to what psychology is, history of psychology, and many different topics that make up psychology. Students will leave PSY-105 with a better understanding of what psychology is, what psychologists do, the history of psychology, and human behavior.
