INTRO TO PSYCHOLOGY – HONORS

This survey course introduces all the major areas of psychology, from its origins in the fusing of medicine and biology with philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind through the emphasis on psychology as the science of behavior and mental processes. Included are such diverse topics as: health, stress, and coping; consciousness, sleep and dreams; effects of psychoactive drugs on behavior and health; psychopathology; social psychology; hypnosis; types of learning and behavior management, information processing approaches including memory, encoding and retrieval; and the relationship of the nervous system to thought, feelings, and behaviors. Multiple activities and research projects allow students to experience psychology “up close and personal”.