Nov 23, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22

PSY 1010 - General Psychology


Introduction to psychology. Survey of topics in experimental and clinical psychology including physiological bases of behavior, sensation, perception, learning, memory, human development, social processes, personality, and abnormal behavior.

Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Pillar: Social or Behavioral Sciences
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2SS
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Course Transferability: OTM course: TMSBS Social & Behavioral Sciences, TAG course: OSS015 Introduction to Psychology
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to apply basic psychological principles to human history, current events, and daily human experience.
  • Students will be able to explain knowledge of classic as well as contemporary research in each of the major subfields of psychology.
  • Students will be able to judge and critically analyze theories, research methods and findings (outcomes), and applications developed by psychologists and made available through textbooks, newspapers, professional and lay periodicals, and the Internet.
  • Students will be able to describe psychological theories, principles and concepts relevant to the following topics: history, methods, physiology, perception, cognition, social, organizational, developmental, personality, and psychopathology and treatment.
  • Students will be able to recognize diversity and individual differences and similarities in a variety of contexts.


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