2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin - NMU Bulletin

• Offered: Contact department
• Prerequisites: ABA 100.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction and review of procedures used to increase, decrease, modify, and maintain socially relevant behaviors through the use of applied behavior analysis. Emphasis will be placed on the identification of appropriate procedures, description using technological language, and practice of basic implementations. This course includes a lecture content and a laboratory component designed to provide students with the training and practice necessary to apply to sit for the BACB’s Registered Behavior Technician credential.

• Offered: Contact department
• Prerequisites: ABA 100.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course is designed to provide an introduction to research within applied behavior analysis. It covers a brief history of research methods within behavior analysis and the foundations of the methods, how to develop and implement a research project including creating a research agenda and how to appropriately carry out the research of interest, evaluating previous research, how to use research in an applied setting, and how research is shared in the scientific community.

• Offered: Contact department
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course is designed to provide background and information on the science of behavior. It covers a wide range of topics within behavior analysis including basic principles such as contingencies of reinforcement and punishment and functions of behavior, as well as respondent and operant conditioning. The course also examines how basic behavior research can be conducted and implemented/consumed in applied settings.

• Offered: Fall Winter Summer
• Graded: S/U
• Co-requisites: Registration for graduation is required for enrollment.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

All graduating students must take the psychology exam as part of the Department of Psychological Science’s outcomes assessment effort. The two hour test will be given at multiple times during each semester.

• Offered: Contact Department
• Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY 101; PSY 201 and PSY 202; Concentration in Social / Personality Psychology required. Permission of instructor required.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

A supervised practicum or research experience in social or personality psychology. 

Course may be repeated up to 4 credits.

• Offered: Contact Department
• Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY 101; PSY 201 and PSY 202; Concentration in Mental Health / Pre-Clinical Psychology required. Permission of instructor required.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

A supervised practicum or research experience in mental health / pre-clinical psychology.

Course may be repeated up to 4 credits.

• Offered: Contact Department
• Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY 101; PSY 201 and PSY 202; Concentration in Developmental Psychology required. Permission of instructor required.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

A supervised practicum or research experience in developmental psychology. 

Course may be repeated up to 4 credits.

• Offered: Contact Department
• Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY 101; PSY 201 and PSY 202; Concentration in Brain and Behavior required. Permission of instructor required.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

A supervised practicum or research experience in brain and behavior sciences.

Course may be repeated up to 4 credits.

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY 101; PSY 201 and PSY 202; PSY 250 or PSY 251.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course explores how emotions interact with cognition and other mental processes to motivate behavior. The underlying brain basis of emotional behaviors and emotional states are explored in this course.

• Offered: Contact Department
• Prerequisites: PSY 100 or PSY 101; PSY 201, PSY 202, and PSY 240.
• Bulletin Year: 2021 - 2022 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Advanced examination of the variety of mental health psychology patterns of disordered or dysfunctional behavior and the procedures through which they may be understood and assessed. Course will include relevant theory in psychological assessment, basic principles of psychometrics, and practical applications of psychological assessment.