Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior**   [Archived Catalog]
2011-2012 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Addendum
   

SPD 652 - Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior**


This course is optional for students pursuing licensure who have not completed graduate work in this content area. This course presents an empirically-based model of the ontogenesis and functioning of psychological structures responsible for adaptation. The evolution of cognitive structures and affective processes will be discussed. The role of cognition and affective processes in the human creation of meaning and its use in clinical contexts is also explored. (3 Credits)