PSYCHOLOGY

Direct inquiries to: Michael J. Lewis, Chair, (215) 204-7667, 658 Weiss Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122.

Graduate Faculty

Lauren B. Alloy, Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; James Arbuckle, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University; Ronald Baenninger, Professor, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; Philip J. Bersh, Professor, Ph.D., Columbia University; Kimberly DeBerry, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Virginia; Jay S. Efran, Professor and Director of Psychological Services Center, Ph.D., The Ohio State University; Robert Fauber, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Georgia; Richard L. Frei, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Akron; Lynn J. Hammond, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University; Donald Hantula, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame University; Richard Heimberg, Professor, Ph.D., Florida State University; Philip N. Hineline, Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University; Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; Marianne E. Jaeger, Assistant Professor and Associate Chair, Ph.D., Temple University; Philip C. Kendall, Professor and Director of Clinical Training, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University; Louise H. Kidder, Professor, Ph.D., Northwestern University; John Lamberth, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University; Robert E. Lana, Professor, Ph.D., University of Maryland; Leonard LoSciuto, Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University; David L. Margules, Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan; Nora Newcombe, Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University; Willis Overton, Professor, Ph.D., Clark University; Luci Paul, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh; Herbert Rappaport, Associate Professor, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo; Jerome H. Resnick, Professor, Ph.D., Syracuse University; Ralph L. Rosnow, Thaddeus L. Bolton Professor, Ph.D., American University; Diane Scott-Jones, Professor, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Thomas F. Shipley, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; Alan L. Sockloff, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Emory University; Laurence Steinberg, Professor, Ph.D., Cornell University; Ronald Taylor, Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan; Marsha Weinraub, Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan; Mark A. Wheeler, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Rice University; Robert W. Weisberg, Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University; Diana S. Woodruff-Pak, Professor, Ph.D., University of Southern California.

General Statement

The Department of Psychology offers graduate work leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree. Graduates are placed in academic, research, service, and industrial positions. The clinical program is approved by the American Psychological Association.

Areas of Concentration

Students may pursue doctoral study and research in the areas of clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, and social and organizational psychology.

Application Deadline

Applications for fall admission to the doctoral programs must be received by January 15.

Financial Aid

The Department offers teaching and research assistantships and fellowships, each of which carries a stipend plus full waiver of tuition and fees.

Doctor of Philosophy

Admission Requirements

Applicants must hold a B.A. or B.S. degree and have completed at least four minimally 3-credit courses in psychology, including one laboratory course; in addition, a natural sciences laboratory course and a statistics course are required. All applicants must submit scores from the general Graduate Record Examination (GRE); the GRE advanced test in psychology is also suggested. In addition, three letters of recommendation, a biographical statement that includes research interests and career goals, and official transcripts from all institutions of higher learning (including Temple University) are required. An interview can be required.

Degree Requirements

Students must complete 72 credit hours, including a minimum of 48 hours in coursework and topical seminars, and a maximum of 24 hours in directed research and/or readings.

The coursework and seminar requirement includes six hours in graduate statistics in the first year, 12 hours in core areas in the first two years, and six additional hours outside the student's division. Supported students must take minimally one course or seminar per semester during the first four years. Except in core areas, as many as nine credit hours can be approved for transfer

The research/readings requirements include a maximum of six hours prior to the master's degree and 12 hours prior to admission to candidacy.

In addition, the student must pass a written preliminary examination, as well as propose an acceptable dissertation and successfully defend it in an oral examination.

An M.A. can be earned after the completion of 36 hours in the doctoral program, including four core courses, and following an acceptable proposal and successful oral defense of a written master's thesis.

Course Descriptions -Psychology

522. Graduate Statistics I. (3 s.h.)

Prerequisite: a course in elementary statistics.

Review of hypothesis-testing methods for means, variances, correlations, and proportions. One-way ANOVA for completely randomized, blocked, and repeated measure designs. Planned and post hoc multiple comparisons.

523. Survey of Multivariate Techniques. (3 s.h.)

Prerequisite: Psych. 522.

Beginning with bivariate correlation and regression, generalizations are made, through the aid of matrix algebra, to multiple regression and correlation. Multivariate techniques also include principal components, canonical correlation, and multivariate analysis of variance use of available statistical programs.

524. Graduate Statistics II. (3 s.h.)

Prerequisite: Psych. 522.

Multiway ANOVA for completely randomized and repeated measures, nested designs, covariance designs. Simple effects and planned and post hoc comparisons. Use of available statistical computer programs.

525. Factor Analysis and Scaling. (3 s.h.)

Prerequisite: Psych 523 or permission of instructor.

Factor analysis covers exploratory and confirmatory methods, estimation procedures, factor transformations, as well as extensions and applications of the factor model. Scaling covers the laws of comparative and categorical judgment, goodness-of-fit tests, metric and nonmetric multidimensional scaling, and clustering methods.

543. Culture and Society. (3 s.h.)

An intensive survey of varied topics in culture and society, such as comparative social psychology, cross-cultural and cross-national research, personality and society.

544. Attitudes and Persuasion. (3 s.h.)

An intensive survey of classic and current research in attitude formation, attitude structure and function, attitude-behavior relationships, and attitude change and persuasion. Applications of attitude theory in behavioral domains including voting behavior, consumer behavior, and intergroup behavior.

547. Psychology and the Law. (3 s.h.)

An analysis of the interaction of psychology with the legal field; the course involves such topics as evidence presentation, jury composition, scientific jury selection, eyewitness, and other selected topics of interest to both the psychological and legal fields.

554-555. Psychological Assessment I and II. (3 s.h. each; together a year-long course)

Prerequisite: permission of instructor or enrollment in Clinical Ph.D. program.

Surveys concepts of intelligence and teaches the administration, scoring, and interpretation of individually administered tests. The evaluation of learning disabilities and neuropsychological disorders is also covered. Surveys the diagnostic system of mental disorders. Teaches the administration, scoring, and interpretation of projective tests and other procedures used to identify and understand clinical dynamics.

557. Clinical Psychology: Scientific and Professional Dimensions. (3 s.h.)

Prerequisite: enrollment in Clinical Ph.D. Program.

History, ethics, research and service methodologies, psychometrics, and topical discussions pertinent to the relationships between psychological science and the practice of clinical psychology.

560. Psychopathology. (3 s.h.)

Prerequisite: enrollment in clinical psychology doctoral program or permission of the instructor.

Provides intensive coverage of the major mental disorders emphasizing terms, systems, and methodology in current use. The conceptual, empirical, and therapeutic underpinnings of each disorder will be highlighted.

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