2. Check Blackboard and WebAdvisor
Contact Information
Phone number
e-mail
Anything I may need to know about you
For example: need DSPS accomodations,
planning on missing a week of class, etc
3. Course information
Contact Information
Tentative Schedule
Important Dates
Grading
Syllabus Quiz
4. 90,000 graduates a year in the US
(National Center for Education Statistics, 2008)
80,000 enter the workforce
▪ 23% in fields that are closely related to psychology
▪ 33% in fields that are somewhat related to psychology
▪ 61% in business and industry
▪ 30% in education
▪ 9% in governmental agencies
5. Knowledge base
History of Psychology
Information gathering and synthesis
Research methods and statistical skills
Thinking skills
Language skills
Interpersonal skills
Ethics and value
6. Conduct research
Promote health
Help educate
Provide social services
Assist business & industry
7. Becoming in psychologist with an
undergraduate degree
The path to helping people
Therapy is the only career in psychology
Psychology is strictly a soft science
10. Studentslearn about the physiological
determinants of behavior.
Subjects include behavior evolution, the
nervous system, and endocrine glands as
well as their relationship to perception,
learning, motivation, emotion, and
personality.
11. Upon successful completion of the course the student will
be able to:
1. Differentiate between neural and behavioral processes
that are pertinent to physiological psychology
2. Identify major historical research and subsequent
findings
3. Analyze current research methodologies utilized in the
study of mind-brain and brain-behavior relationships
4. Examine important aspects of evolutionary
development and current issues in behavioral
neuroscience
5. Distinguish between different types of cells and neural
processes in the brain
12. 6. Identify and compare chemical communication
processes
7. Differentiate components of the central nervous
system, peripheral nervous system, and endocrine system
8. Compare and contrast empirical methods of measuring
structures and activities within the brain: EEG, MRI, PET,
SPECT, and CT
9. Analyze the processing issues involved in the sensory
modalities and the relationship between sensation and
perception
10. Compare and contrast neural processes involved in
emotional expression, mental experience, and behavior
13. 11. Examine the neural processes involved in the actions
of drugs and teratogens
12. Categorize the chemical, anatomical, and
physiological components of the different stages/phases
of human consciousness
13. Examine the neural and chemical basis of various
psychopathologies
14. Evaluate and compare the neural and chemical basis
for reinforcement as well as for associational and operant
learning and language
15. Assess the various interventions for psychopathology
that have their origins in behavioral neuroscience.