Psychology as Natural Science

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Psychology as a Natural Science FA5 (3) Through lectures and discussion, students are introduced to the many experimental questions addressed in psychology, e.g., environmental and genetic factors in behavior, biological bases of behavior, sensations and perception, conditioning and learning, memory and cognition, and drug use and abuse, as well as to the specific methods used in psychological research and the general research approaches used in science. AU Core Habits of Mind: Natural-Scientific Inquiry. Prerequisite: completion of Quantitative Literacy I requirement. Corequisite: PSYC-116. Note: Completion of PSYC-115 and PSYC-116 with grades of C or better fulfills AU Core Habits of Mind: Natural-Scientific Inquiry.