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.