Bachelor in Psychology
University of Nevada, Reno
Key Information
Campus location
Reno, USA
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
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Pace
Full time
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Application deadline
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Earliest start date
Sep 2023
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Introduction
Psychology majors learn about human behavior and its context. They study motivations, capacities, and human abilities, and practitioners put this knowledge to work in the alleviation of human suffering.
Contemporary psychology is somewhat divided into different approaches or theories for understanding behavior. The organisms considered may range from chimps to pigeons, from humans to amoebas. Some psychologists believe it is most important to understand physiological processes (biological approach); others rarely, if ever, consider physiology. Some psychologists insist that we must investigate the deepest thoughts of the unconscious mind (psychoanalysis); others seek to understand mental structures and processes that underlie human performance (cognitivism). Meanwhile, others study the situated actions of organisms and deny that the "mind" can be separated from this level of analysis (behaviorism). Psychology is far from being a unified field of research and practice. This will be one of the questions you will have to answer for yourself: which field, or perspective, of psychology is the most interesting to you.
Areas of study include the physiology of the brain and nervous system, cognition, learning, child psychology, abnormal psychology, and animal behavior.
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