2024-2025 University Catalog
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PSYC 275 - Biological Psychology Focuses on issues concerning cellular and behavioral/cognitive neuroscience and is designed for students majoring in psychological science. The first part covers neuroanatomy, neuronal structure and function, brain evolution and development, movement, and cellular models of memory. The second and third parts take students through cognitive neuroscience, sensory systems, sleep and dreaming, language, emotion, ingestive behaviors, psychopathology, and cognitive aspects of learning and memory. Also teaches basic methodology so that students learn the many ways to ask and answer questions about brain and behavior in humans and non-humans alike. Normally does not count towards the neuroscience major.
Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Senior Restrictions: Not open to students who have completed Area of Inquiry: Natural Sciences & Mathematics Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
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