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| Course ID: | PSYC 4130. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Physiological and Comparative Psychology | Course
Description: | The biological bases of human and nonhuman behavior, with
emphasis on underlying physiological mechanisms, and on the
development, evolution, and function of behavior. | | Oasis Title: | Physiological Comparative Psyc | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in PSYC 4130E | | Pre or Corequisite: | PSYC 3990 or PSYC 3990E | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | By the end of the course students should have learned:
1. Some of the historical, philosophical, and methodological issues associated
with behavioral neuroscience
2. Some of the methods used in the study of behavioral neuroscience
3. Some of the fundamentals of neuroscience
4. Some general and recent knowledge regarding behavioral neuroscience
5. Some general and recent knowledge regarding study of animal behavior
6. The laboratory component of this course will provide the student with in depth
exposure to basic neuroanatomy, and comparative animal behavior and will
illustrate principles of sensory processing that supplement material presented
in class | | Topical Outline: | 1. Historical and philosophical background
2. Methods used to study CNS-behavior relationships
3. An overview of neuroanatomy
4. Neurons, electrical activity, and neural transmission
5. Psychopharmacology
6. Sensory systems
7. Motor systems
8. Motivation and emotion
9. Learning and memory
10. Evolutionary/Phylogenetic perspectives on behavior
11. Animal cognition | |
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