{"id":954,"date":"2013-05-24T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancini.brandonu.ca\/admissions\/?page_id=954"},"modified":"2014-06-23T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T21:16:36","slug":"psychology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/future-students\/programs\/degrees\/science\/psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class='post-954 float'><p><a title=\"Apply Now\" href=\"https:\/\/webapp.brandonu.ca\/pls\/admission\"><button>Apply Now <span class=\"icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/future-students\/apply\/\">How to Apply<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Department of Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/psychology\/\">Department Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Bachelor of Science\" href=\"\/future-students\/programs\/degrees\/science\/\">Bachelor of Science<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside><p>The field of psychology helps us to understand:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How biology and genes influence behavior<\/li>\n<li>How we learn, reason and solve problems<\/li>\n<li>How we remember and why we forget<\/li>\n<li>How our bodies and minds change over time<\/li>\n<li>How stress affects us and why we must manage stress<\/li>\n<li>How psychological problems arise and why therapies are valuable<\/li>\n<li>Why people behave differently in groups compared to on their own<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Programs and Courses<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Psychology offers a 3-year, 4-year and 4-year Honours major program in psychology. These programs can be completed as a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree. Students may also complete a minor in psychology.<\/p>\n<p>We also have a new Applied Psychology Stream for students interested in courses that the explore the applied component of our discipline..<\/p>\n<p>We provide courses clustered into the following sub-domains within Psychology:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Individual Differences \u2013 Abnormal Psychology; Theories of Personality; Psychological Assessment<\/li>\n<li>Social Psychology \u2013 Introduction to Social Psychology; Prejudice, Stereotyping &amp; Discrimination; Motivation<\/li>\n<li>Biological Psychology \u2013 Introduction to Biological Psychology; Biological Psychology; Perception<\/li>\n<li>Information Processing \u2013 Classical &amp; Instrumental Conditioning; Human Learning &amp; Cognitive Psychology; Study of Memory<\/li>\n<li>Developmental Psychology \u2013 Child Psychology; Adolescent Psychology; Psychology of Aging; Aging and Mental Health<\/li>\n<li>Applied Psychology \u2013 Organization Psychology; Behavior Analysis, Psychology of Sport; Counselling; Environmental Psychology; Psychology of Health; Counselling Psychology; Psychosocial Factors in Health Care and Management of Illness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What Next?<\/h2>\n<p>Our Honours and 4-year programs lead to studies at the Master\u2019s and\/or Doctoral level.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, many of our students progress to additional studies at professional schools including counseling, law, education, medical rehabilitation, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, social work, psychiatric nursing, and business administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For questions, contact Psychology Department Chair, Dr. Shannon Gadbois (&#x47;&#97;d&#x62;&#x6f;&#105;s&#x40;&#x42;&#114;a&#x6e;&#x64;&#111;n&#x55;&#x2e;&#67;a)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apply Now How to Apply Department Website Bachelor of Science The field of psychology helps us to understand: How biology and genes influence behavior How we learn, reason and solve problems How we remember and why we forget How our bodies and minds change over time How stress affects us and why we must manage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":1811,"parent":836,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-954","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/future-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/future-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/future-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/future-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/future-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/future-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/future-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/954\/revisions\/2433"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/future-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/future-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/future-students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}