Principles of conditioning and motivation; approaches to learning, including acquisition of verbal materials, concepts, and motor skills; memory and transfer.

Processes underlying information storage and retrieval, including different kinds of memory, forgetting, depth of processing, and control processes.

Basic concepts in descriptive and inferential statistics, emphasizing applications to psychology.

Planning, execution, analysis, and reporting of experiments. Literature, procedures, and instruments in representative areas of psychological research.

A broad introduction to the field of industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology, including surveys of major theories and research and practical applications for work organizations. Discusses common issues in industrial psychology (e.g., personnel recruitment and selection, assessment, training and development and performance appraisal) and organizational psychology (e.g., leadership and employee motivation, behavior and satisfaction), as well as issues related to diversity, justice and work/life balance.

Organizations and management systems: motivation and work performance; human factors in systems design and evaluation; personnel selection and testing.

Surveys psychological theory and research as applied to the behavior of individuals in organizational settings.

Methods and theory of psychological testing; various types of psychological tests; consideration of ethical, social, and legal aspects of testing.

Definition and description of personality in terms of theoretical and methodological approaches.

Human social behavior, including such concepts as aggression, attraction, attribution, conformity, groups, helping, person perception, and persuasion.