Biobases of Behavior

Catalog description

Fulfills the APA requirement for a three-semester-hour course devoted to the broad and general biological bases that underlie behavior, and surveys a variety of fundamental physiological principles. Designed for students enrolled in an APA-accredited professional psychology training program; it does not focus on application of physiological principles to psychological practice. Capitalizes on most students' prior familiarity with psychopathology to help enable acquisition of general information about important brain structures and functions. Includes information about basic nervous system-related biochemistry, cellular structure and physiology, and anatomy and physiology. Students participate in classroom problem solving activities during which an array of principles is covered based on reading assignments. Challenges students to consider the role of biological, evolutionary and genetic factors in the expression of an array of typical and atypical behavior.