PSY10
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Introduction to Biological Psychology
Meta-Major
Social Sciences
Session Cycle
FS
Credits
3
Allow Pass/No Pass
No
Lecture Hours
54
Transfer Status
UC and CSU
C-ID
PSY 150
Course Description
An advanced consideration of the relationship between the brain and behavior emphasizing the structure and function of neurons and other components of the nervous system. The contributions, philosophy, and ethics of research on humans and animals will be examined. Other topics include brain-behavior relationships underlying the psychological phenomena of sensation, perception, regulatory processes, emotion, motivation, learning, memory, language, and cognition as well as disorders that arise from nervous system malfunctioning.