Physiological Psychology: Motivation and Behavior

(2.5-3.75 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Titled "Psychophysiologie: motivation et comportement" at host institution. This teaching is a study of the adoptive regulations of the behaviors by considering the neuraux and hormonal mechanisms. One 1st part is an introduction to the ontogenèse behavior. Principal of the theories behaviorists and ethologic bases, the study of the instinct and the training is evoked as well from the historical point of view as experimental. The other parts study certain mechanisms psychophysiologic. The mechanism endocrinien and neurobiology of the stress (and more generally of the emotions) are developed, then three examples psychophysiologic of basic behaviors are described (the phenomenon of print, the sexual behavior, and the food behavior), by integrating the ethologic approach, the neuroanatomical approach (study of the cores hypothalamic and limbic) and approaches it neuro-endocrinienne (role of the hormones and neurotransmitters used). When taught at Dublin, Ireland: PSY 20010 Biological Psychology at UCD; This module will introduce student to two main subdivisions of biological psychology, namely physiological psychology and psychopharmacology. The methodological and conceptual basis of each subdiscipline is considered and selected topics such as sleep, memory, pain, and the effects of drugs on behaviour are explored in detail.