Department of Psychological Sciences (Graduate)

Website URL:

http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/psy/

Department/School Head:

Christopher R. Agnew

Admission Requirements:

Doctoral Degree Program Basic Requirements

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.0 or equivalent required
• Master’s Degree Completion:
  Not required
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Required – no minimum score set

International Applicant Requirements

• Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
  3.0 or equivalent required
• Master’s Degree Completion:
  Not required
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
  Required – no minimum score set
• TOEFL for Non-Native English Speakers:
  Minimum Paper-Based Test (PBT) Score Required: 550
  Minimum Internet-Based Test (IBT) Overall Score Required: 77
  With the following minimum section requirements:
  Reading: 19
  Listening: 14
  Speaking: 18
  Writing: 18
• IELTS (Academic Module):
  An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 6.5 or higher will be accepted
• Pearson Test of English (PTE) (Academic Module):
  An alternative to the TOEFL, scores of 58 or higher will be accepted
• TWE for Non-Native English Speakers
  Not required, but recommended

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

• The Department offers six distinct research training programs, each culminating in the Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences (note that the Department does not offer terminal master’s degree programs).

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

• Behavioral Neuroscience
• Clinical Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Industrial / Organizational Psychology
• Mathematical and Computational Cognitive Science
• Social Psychology

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Christopher Agnew
Ximena Arriaga
Thomas Berndt
Donal Carlston
Ehtibar Dzhafarov
Christopher Eckhardt
Gregory Francis
William Graziano
Robert Kail
Janice Kelly
Donald Lynam
Margo Monteith
Zygmunt Pizlo
Terry Powley
Robert Proctor
David Rollock
Deborah Rupp
Richard Schweickert
Susan Swithers
Peter Urcuioli
Kip Williams

Associate Professor

Julia Chester
Edward Fox
Sebastien Hélie
George Hollich
Carolyn Jagacinski
Jeffrey Karpicke
Kimberly Kinzig
Susan South
James Tyler
Sang Woo
Barbara Younger

Assistant Professor

Amy Brewster
Daniel Foti
Erin Hennes
Sean Lane
Thomas Redick
Douglas Samuel
Susan Sangha
Darryl Schneider
Rong Su
Louis Tay
Katherine Thomas
Bridgette Tonnsen

Programs

• Psychological Sciences, PHD
• Psychological Sciences/Gerontology, PHD

• Psychological Sciences, MS

• Psychological Statistics Graduate Certificate

Courses

• PSY 50000 - Statistical Methods Applied To Psychology, Education, And Sociology
• PSY 50500 - Mental Measurement
• PSY 51100 - Psychophysics
• PSY 51200 - Neural Systems
• PSY 51400 - Introduction To Mathematical Psychology
• PSY 51800 - Memory And Cognition
• PSY 52000 - Attention And Performance
• PSY 52200 - An Introduction To Pediatric Psychology
• PSY 52600 - Psycholinguistics
• PSY 53200 - Psychological Disorders Of Childhood
• PSY 53500 - Psychology Of Death And Dying
• PSY 54000 - History Of Psychology
• PSY 55000 - Introduction To Clinical Psychology
• PSY 55500 - Cognitive Engineering Of Interactive Software
• PSY 55600 - Job Design
• PSY 56000 - Cognitive Functioning In Older Adults
• PSY 56100 - Personality And Social Functioning In Older Adults
• PSY 57700 - Human Factors In Engineering
• PSY 58500 - Psychological Foundations Of Consumer Behavior
• PSY 59100 - Topics In Psychology
• PSY 60000 - Statistical Inference
• PSY 60100 - Correlation And Experimental Design
• PSY 60300 - Psychopharmacology
• PSY 60500 - Applied Multivariate Analysis
• PSY 60600 - Special Topics In Quantitative Psychology
• PSY 60700 - Scaling And Measurement
• PSY 60800 - Measurement Theory And The Interpretation Of Data
• PSY 61000 - Multivariate Analysis In Organizational Research
• PSY 61101 - Multilevel Theory, Measurement And Analysis
• PSY 61401 - Special Topics In Ingestive Behavior
• PSY 61500 - Introduction To Behavioral Neuroscience
• PSY 61801 - Ingestive Behavior Seminar
• PSY 61900 - Sensory Coding Mechanisms
• PSY 62200 - Animal Learning
• PSY 62400 - Human Learning And Memory
• PSY 62500 - Complex Cognitive Processes
• PSY 62700 - Advanced Topics In Visual Perception
• PSY 62800 - Perceptual Processes
• PSY 63000 - Stereotyping And Prejudice
• PSY 63100 - Multiple Regression Analysis For The Behavioral Sciences
• PSY 63300 - Seminar In Experimental Psychology
• PSY 63400 - Evolutionary Determinants Of Cognition
• PSY 63600 - Self And Identity
• PSY 63700 - Human Information Processing
• PSY 63900 - Seminar In Cognition
• PSY 64000 - Survey Of Social Psychology I
• PSY 64200 - Social Influence
• PSY 64300 - Attitudes And Attitude Change
• PSY 64400 - Close Relationships
• PSY 64500 - Social Cognition
• PSY 64600 - Seminar In Social-Personality Psychology
• PSY 64700 - Group Processes And Performance
• PSY 64900 - Social Psychology Of Health
• PSY 65100 - Development In Infancy And Childhood
• PSY 65300 - Social Development
• PSY 65500 - Cognitive Development
• PSY 66400 - Research Methods In Clinical Psychology I
• PSY 66700 - Clinical Assessment I
• PSY 66800 - Clinical Assessment II
• PSY 66900 - Prosocial Behavior
• PSY 67000 - Principles And Techniques Of Psychotherapy
• PSY 67300 - Psychology Of Behavior Disorders
• PSY 67800 - Seminar In Clinical Psychology
• PSY 67900 - Practicum In Clinical Psychology
• PSY 68000 - Survey Of Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• PSY 68100 - Seminar In Research Methodologies Of Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• PSY 68200 - Advanced Seminar In Industrial Organizational Psychology
• PSY 68300 - Seminar In Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• PSY 69000 - Individual Research In Psychology
• PSY 69100 - Readings In Psychology
• PSY 69200 - Special Topics In Psychology
• PSY 69600 - Seminar In Neurobiology, Endocrinology, And Behavior
• PSY 69700 - Clinical Psychology Internship
• PSY 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• PSY 69900 - Research PhD Thesis