16 courses in the 1963–64 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
W. H. Bexton, B.A. (McMaster), M.A. (Saskatchewan), Ph.D. (McGill) Professor and Acting Chairman of the Department
R. K. Banks, M.A. (Toronto) - - = - - - = - Lecturer (Mrs.) M. D. Vogel-Sprott, B.A. (McMaster), M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) - Lecturer
Psychology 100, or its equivalent, is a prerequisite for all other courses in psychology. For courses at the 300 level, students will normally be expected to have had at least one course in psychology at the 200 level.
Courses at the 400 level are open only to honours students, or students qualifying for a graduate degree, who have an adequate background in psychology.
A short introduction to the methodology and basic principles of some of the major areas of modern psychology such as learning, emotion, perception, and individual differences. (For Engineering students only.)
3 lectures, half course.
This course is deisgned to provide the students with an understanding of the basic concepts and techniques of modern psychology as a behavioral science. The development of behavior, learning, motivation, emotion, sensation and perception, and individual differences will be studied with reference to the physiological correlates and to environmental factors.
3 lectures.
Nature of psychology; organic life, sensory life and its philosophy; intellectual life and its philosophy. lectures.
The genesis and development of behavior of the human will be traced from conception to maturity. Physiological changes, and socializing processes will be considered in relation to the development of sensory, motor, symbolic and emotional processes. The nature and development of social behavior and personality will also be studied.
lectures.
This course is designed to introduce the student to learning theory and also to provide an understanding of experimental techniques in this area. The nature of learning will be considered from the establishment of conditioned responses to the development of complex skills. Theories of learning will be critically examined and the application of research findings to the improvement of learning skills will be considered. Laboratory sessions will demonstrate various aspects of learning.
2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory.
A study in the relationship between patterns of behavior and physiological processes with comparisons along the phylogenetic scale from infrahuman species to man.
lectures.
Mental health; development, heredity, environ-
ment; the school, personal activity, problems of education. 3 lectures.
In this course the student will study the processes of communication and socialization in social interaction and in the development of the individual. The ineraction of the individual with social groups will be considered with reference to concepts such as norms, social roles, leadership-followership, attitudes, opinion and prejudices.
3 lectures.
Personality and adjustment will be considered with special reference to factors related to abnormal behavior. The neuroses and psychoses, both psychogenic and organic, will be studied in some detail with regard to typical symptoms in various diagnostic categories, probable dynamics, typical therapy and prognosis. Time will also be devoted to an examination of current research on behaviour disorders. 3 lectures.
The characteristics of sensation and perception will be studied in relation to the physics of the stimuli and physiology of the sensory apparatus. Various characteristics of perception will be studied including perceptual organization, factors of attention, illusions.
2 lectures, 2 hours laboratory.
This course will survey the fields of Applied Psychology and consider the application of behavioural studies to areas such as industry, education business and medicine.
3 lectures.
An examination and evaluation of some of the outstanding theories of personality. 3 lectures.
Psychological thought from the classical Greek period to the modern period with emphasis on the development of scientific psychology. 3 lectures.
The basic problems in measuring individual differences in intelligence, personality and other characteristics, will be studied. Tests will be critically examined and the application of tests to counselling, selection and guidance will be considered.
2 lectures, 1 hour laboratory.
Conducted, for the most part, as a seminar class, the purpose of this course will be to examine the latest developments in psychology, chiefly through journal publications, so as to evaluate contemporary trends in research and theory.
2 lectures.
Each student will work under the direction of a member of the department on a specific topic for scientific investigation. The results of this investigation will be presented in the form of a thesis which will be critically examined by members of the department and, also, where pertinent, by members of other departments.