PSYC 3375 - Brain and Behaviour

(3 credits - TG) 3 hours lecture

This course encourages students to adopt a biological perspective towards psychological questions and issues. From a basic overview of brain anatomy and neuron physiology, the course looks at a varied selection of topics such as vision, brain damage and recovery. Alzheimer’s disease, sleep and dreaming, drug addiction, learning, aggression and schizophrenia. All these topics are of interest to psychologists and all can be reduced to, and understood in terms of, the operations of the nervous system.

Prerequisite: Psychology 2213.

Note: Psychology 3375 = Athabasca University PSYC 402. Credit will be allowed for only one of Psychology 3375 and PSYC A402.