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Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's degree, or equiv. International Education

Credit Hours

12 Hours

Course Duration

1 Month (Self-Paced) Program

Courses Offered

2

Courses Offered In GRADUATE CERTIFICATE

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  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

  • This course helps you understand why cognitive psychologists approach problems as they do. It iss a study of cognition: how humans think. Topics covered include visual perception, attention, sensory and primary memory, memory encoding, memory retrieval, memory storage, motor control, visual imagery, decision making and deductive reasoning, problem solving, and language.

  • 6 Credits

  • Psychology of Personality

  • This course is designed to prepare you to apply theories of personality to understanding particular individuals who they may encounter in professional work and in their personal lives; this engaging course provides an overview of major classic and current theories of personality, together with clear explanation of the latest research.

  • 6 Credits
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Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Cognitive psychologist's approach to research
    Methods of cognitive psychology
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Visual perception
    Attention
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Sensory memory and primary memory
    Memory encoding
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Memory retrieval
    Memory storage
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Visual imagery
    Motor control
    Decision making and deductive reasoning
    Problem solving
    Language structure
    Language processing

Psychology of Personality

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to personality theory.
    Classical psychoanalysis: freud.
    Analytical psychology: jung.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Individual psychology: adler.
    Psychosocial development: erikson.
    Interpersonal psychoanalysis: horney.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Personological trait theory: allport.
    Factor analytic trait theory: cattell and the big five.
    Biological trait theories.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The challenge of behaviorism: skinner and staats.
    Psychoanalytic learning theory: dollard and miller.
    Cognitive social learning theory: mischel and bandura.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The psychology of personal constructs: kelly.
    Person-centered theory: rogers.
    The hierarchy of needs: maslow.
    Conclusion.