Appendix F Psychological Foundations Courses at MSU 

The following semester courses have been approved by the Counseling Psychology faculty as sufficient to meet APA foundational requirements in individual behavior, social bases of behavior, cognitive-affective bases of behavior, and biological bases of behavior.  Students must select at least one 3-credit semester course in each of these four areas.  Note that CEP 960 meets the requirement for coursework in the individual behavior area. 

BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR 

(e.g., physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology, sensation, psychopharmacology) 
CEP 975     Psychological Assessment of Cognitive Dysfunction (Spring, even number years) 
PSY 801     Sensation & Perception (Fall, odd number years) 
PSY 809     Developmental Psychobiology (Fall, odd number years) 
PSY 811     Advanced Behavioral Neuroscience (Spring) 
PSY 851     Neuropsychology (Fall) 
 

COGNITIVE-AFFECTIVE BASES OF BEHAVIOR 
(e.g., learning, memory, perception, cognition, thinking, motivation, emotion) 

CEP 903     Cognitive Development Across the Lifespan (Fall) 
CEP 906     Sociocultural Bases of Cognition and Education (Fall, even number years) 
CEP 909     Cognition and Technology (Spring) 
CEP 910     Current Issues in Motivation and Learning (Spring, even number years) 
CEP 915     Language, Literacy and Learning (Spring, even number years) 
PSY 800     Theories of Learning and Motivation (Fall) 
PSY 810     Cognitive Processes (Fall, even number years) 
 

SOCIAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR 
(e.g., social psychology, cultural, ethnic, and group processes; sex roles; organizational and systems theory) 

PSY 834     Social and Personality Psychology (Fall) 
PSY 836     Personality Process and Social Behavior (Fall, even number years) 
PSY 860     Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Fall) 
PSY 862     Organizational Psychology and Behavior (Spring) 
CEP 904     Social-Emotional Development Across the Lifespan (Spring, odd number years)
EAD 801     Leadership and Organizational Development
 

INDIVIDUAL BEHAVIOR (e.g., personality theory, human development, individual differences, abnormal psychology) 

CEP 960a   Theoretical Foundations of Counseling Psychology (Fall) 
PSY 844     Developmental Psychology of Women (Spring, even number years) 
FCE 810     Theories of Human Development (Fall) 

aDenotes required course in counseling psychology.  Additional individual behavior courses are listed for illustrative purposes.