Syllabus College of Social Science PSY/300 Version 5 General Psychology Copyright © 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2006 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description General Psychology is a survey course which introduces the student to the major topics in scientific psychology as applied to human behavior. Applications of these principles will be made to the human experience. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering
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Knowledge about learning * Reflective teaching * Classroom experience and knowledge about learning provide students with a constructive learning environment * Understanding learning * Individual differences, Learning theories, Managing learning in classrooms, Teachers * Constructivist – refers to the idea that learners construct knowledge for themselves; each learner individually (and socially) constructs meaning as he or she learns. * Humanist – a
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Every organization has its own culture. Every organization has its own environment to achieve its targeted goal and objectives. The people working in an organization also have different culture and different behavior and thus they have different working style to achieve the organizational goal. To study and understanding people and their behavior in an organization, organizational behavior is studied. Organizational behavior is related to the study of peoples functioning in an organization focused
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that a human cannot see (Cacioppo, 2002). This implicates the human brain function, and structure (Willingham, 2007). Four Key Milestones There are four vital developments in cognitive psychology. These are known as neuroscience, artificial intelligence, the fall of behaviorism, and the information process. These key milestones played a crucial role in cognitive psychology. First is the study of the human mind through abstract concepts to show definite links among brain structure, and function
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representative of a larger group Population- all people who share a particular characteristic, such as all high school students or all police officers Dark figures of crime- Incidents of crime and delinquency that go undetected by police. Racial Threat Theory- as the size of the African
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 1. Involves studying the thought processes of humans 2. Deals with representing those processes via machines * 1960’s * One of original chat bots * Programmed as Rogerian Psychotherapist. (Ask Q’s) * 1960’s * One of original chat bots * Programmed as Rogerian Psychotherapist. (Ask Q’s) Development of Eliza Development of Eliza Testing for intelligence: * The Turing Test * Alan Turing * How to determine if machine is truly
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INTRODUCTION In 1983, Howard Gardner's Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences introduced the idea that traditional types of intelligence, such as IQ, fail to fully explain cognitive ability. He introduced the idea of multiple intelligences which included both interpersonal intelligence (the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people) and intrapersonal intelligence (the capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one's feelings, fears and motivations
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excited to offer this course as part of my Computer Science Degree requirements. Unfortunately, I had no knowledge of emotional intelligence prior to the term, but luckily enough, during the course of last week I came to terms with emotional intelligence as the ability to recognize, regulate and express
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However, neither category of people will take the time to realize how bad world hunger has really become. There are several ethical issues involved with the minimization of world hunger including those of the three theories of ethical thought: consequential, deontological, and humanist theories. I, also have my personal opinion about the actions or lack thereof, involved with this minimization. It's simple to ignore something you can't necessarily see. Understanding that there is world hunger is one
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education. Everyone has their own level of “intelligence quotation or IQ” according to Shearman (1927) and Truman (1916). They believed that if a person was born with a high intelligence it would stand them in good stead throughout their life, passing one test would generally mean going on to pass subsequent tests, compared to a person born with a low “IQ”. MacIntosh and Maisie-Taylor (1985) believed differently in that these type of intelligence tests were not an accurate indication to a persons’
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