Instructor: Sandra Sanchez

1. Instructor: Sandra Sanchez

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3.  Course information
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 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

9. Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience
8th Edition
Neil R. Carlson
Prepared by: Grant McLaren, Department of Psychology, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
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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.