PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Undergraduate

This course focuses on the nervous system as the basis of all experience and behaviour. It examines how a biological perspective of the brain developed, how neuroanatomy defines brain function, how neurons transmit information, how body movement is controlled, and how touch, pain, sleep and arousal work. PREREQUISITES: PSY 1010, 1020, 2120; AND, for Psychology Majors, EITHER all three of PSY 2700, 2730, 2750 OR PSY 2780 and 2790; AND, for non-majors, PSY 2510. Students who do not have PSY 2700, 2730 and 2750 OR 2780 and 2790 but do have equivalent statistics and research methods courses may enrol with permission of the instructor. Three hours a week, two hours a week laboratory