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February 2001, update of June 1988
Mark Alpert, Social Sciences Librarian.
The undergraduate concentration in the Psychology department emphasizes a rigorous, scientific approach to the understanding of human behavior. The program examines the most up-to-date and comprehensive psychological research and theory and provides opportunities for direct involvement in psychological research and application.
The graduate program in Psychology leads to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The goal of the program is to develop competent research psychologists and teachers who will become contributors to knowledge in psychology. Toward this end, an emphasis is placed on research activity, starting in the first term of graduate study. Dissertation supervision is available in: sensation, perception, memory and cognitive science, learning, comparative, developmental, life span development and cognitive and social aging, personality, psychopathology, social psychology, and linguistics. Offers degrees in Master of Arts, Joint Degree of Master of Arts in Psychology and Women's Studies and Doctor of Philosophy.
The collection supports study in Psychology at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The emphasis of the department is upon research and includes a broad range of subject specialization including: emotional and cognitive development, statistics, human spatial orientation and motor control, spatial orientation, linguistics, human memory and learning, experimental psychology, life span development, sensation and perception, social relations and health, human memory, comparative psychology, social psychology, perception and neurolinguistics. A practicum in clinical psychology is available to undergraduates. Human behavior is stressed and animal behavior may be acquired at the basic level (refer to statement for Neurosciences). Material dealing with artificial intelligence, information processing, and philosophy of mind is acquired when appropriate or referred accordingly as is material in educational psychology. Social policy materials relating to mental health, aging, and special populations are treated in conjunction with the Heller School statement. Studies involving the relationship of psychology to fields such as literature, art, music, film, etc. are acquired selectively or referred to the appropriate collection program.
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Generally, only U.S. materials are purchased except when important seminal studies appear in other countries which would be important to the curriculum.
Although there is no limitation in time, the contemporary period is stressed.
Currently-published material is emphasized. Earlier important work not represented in the collection is purchased on request.
In general, only English language materials are collected. Important works in other languages will be purchased upon request.
Monographs are primary to the collection.
Serials are primary to the collection
The library buys or subscribes to electronic indexes and full-text databases that offer research value. Links to free websites are not actively collected together on the library's website although links to websites are included in guides produced by the library.
Research collections in microforms are purchased when deemed relevant.
Dissertations are acquired on a highly selective basis.
Video and audio materials are acquired when relevant to the curriculum.
Materials are located both at the Main Library and the Science Library
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Subject Area |
Collecting Levels |
| Developmental Psychology | Graduate Study |
| Social Psychology | Graduate Study |
| Cognitive Processes | Graduate Study |
| Abnormal Psychology | Undergraduate Study |
| Applied Clinical psychology | Undergraduate Study |
| Cognitive and Life Span | Graduate Study |
| Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis | Undergraduate Study |
| Physiological Psychology (Science) | Graduate Study |
| Neuropsychology (Science) | Graduate Study |
| Human Experimental Psychology (Science) | Graduate Study |
| Pscholinguistics | Undergraduate Study |
Because of the interdisciplinary nature of subject matter of Psychology, a number of related policy statements should be referred to:
