Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome Overview
2. Key Concepts in Psychology
3. Foundation Concept 6: Biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors influence the ways that individuals perceive, think about, and react to the world.
4. Foundational Concept 7: Biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors influence behavior and behavior change.
5. Foundational Concept 8: Psychological, Sociocultural, and biological factors influence the way we think about ourselves and others, as well as how we interact with others.
6. Foundational Concept 9
7. Foundational Concept 10
1. 6A - Sensory Processing
2. 6A - Vision
3. 6A - Hearing
4. 6A - Other Senses
5. 6A - Perception
1. 6B - Attention
2. 6B - Cognition
3. 6B - Consciousness
4. 6B - Memory
5. 6B - Language
1. 6C - Emotion
2. 6C - Stress
1. 7A - Biological Bases of Behavior
2. 7A - Personality
3. 7A - Psychological Disorders
4. 7A - Motivation
5. 7A - Attitudes
1. 7B - How the Presence of Others Affects Individual Behavior
2. 7B - Group Decision Making Processes
3. 7B - Normative and Non-normative Behavior
4. 7B - Socialization
1. 7C - Habituation and Dis-habituation, Associative Learning
2. 7C - Observational Learning
3. 7C - Theories of Attitude and Behavior Changes
1. 8A - Self-Concept, Self-Identity, and Social Identity (PSY, SOC)
2. 8A - Formation of Identity
1. 8B - Attributing Behavior to Persons or Situations (PSY)
2. 8B - Prejudice and Bias (PSY, SOC)
3. 8B - Processes Related to Stereotypes (PSY)
1. 8C - Elements of Social Interaction (PSY, SOC)
2. 8C - Self-Presentation and Interacting With Others (PSY, SOC)
3. 8C - Social Behavior (PSY)
4. 8C - Discrimination (PSY, SOC)
1. 9A - Theoretical Approaches (SOC)
2. 9A - Social Institutions (SOC)
3. 9A - Culture (PSY, SOC)
1. 9B - Demographic Structure of Society (PSY, SOC)
2. 9B - Demographic Shifts and Social Change (SOC)
1. 10A - Spatial Inequality (SOC)
2. 10A - Social Class (SOC)

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Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior

Course curriculum

Introduction to Behavioral Foundations

6A: Sensing the Environment

6B: Making sense of the environment

6C: Responding to the World

7A: Individual Influences on behavior

7B: Social processes that influence human behavior

7C: Attitude and behavior change

8A: Self-identity

8B: Social Thinking

8C: Social Interactions

9A: Understanding social structure

9B: Demographic characteristics and processes

10A: Social Inequality

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