PSGA-6652-Introduction to Neuroscience (2) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
An exploration of the neuroanotomical, physiological, and chemical substrates of human behaviors, including movement, sensation, perception, cognition, emotion, and personality. Both typical and atypical behaviors will be considered, as will developmental issues.

PSGA-6653-Neuroscience Lab (1) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
Lab activities will include identification of neural structures in plastic models, human brains, workbooks, and through sheep brain dissections.  Other activities may include films and psychophysiological techniques including measuring GSR, heart rate, and EEG.Co-requisite: PSGA 6652.

PSGA-6251-Neuropsychology (2) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
Relationships between brain structures and cognitive functions are discussed.  Normative data and information from clinical neurologic and psychiatric populations will be presented.  Prerequisite Introduction to Neuroscience with Lab (PSGA 6652, 6653).

PSGA-6252-Neuropsychology Lab (1) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
Administration and scoring  of Neuropsychological Assessment tools are covered.  Students will learn to evaluate these test data and write reports. Co-requisite: PSGA 6251.

PSGA-6257-Child Neuropsychology (2) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
The relationship between development of brain structures and cognitive functions are discussed. Tests used to assess a variety of functions including memory , attention, achievement, visual spatial skills, executive function, and motor function are presented. Learning disabilities, attention deficits, pediatric neurological disorders, and other relevant topics are covered.

PSGA-6258-Child Neuropsychology Lab (1) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
Administration and scoring  of Neuropsychological Assessment tools appropriate for children are covered.  Students will learn to evaluate these test data and write reports.Co-requisite: PSGA 6257.

PSRU-1000-Introduction to Psychology: Life Science (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
An introduction to the contents and methods of scientific psychology as a life science. A survey of the facts, principles, and theories of psychology relating to learning, sensation, perception, cognition, motivation, developmental, personality, abnormal, and social psychology.

PSRU 2100-Biological Psychology (formerly Physiological Psychology, PSRU 3600) (3) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
An introduction to the biological bases of psychology. Research will be presented with an emphasis on how the activity of the nervous system, as shaped by phylogeny and ontogeny, determines behavior. Prerequisite: PSRU 1000.

PSRU-2101-Biological Psychology Laboratory(5) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
A laboratory course examining the activity of the nervous system as shaped by phylogeny and ontogeny and its influence on behavior.
Prerequisites: PS 1000, 2000, 2010.

PSRU-3710-Cognitive Neuroscience (4) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
This course discusses how the brain enables the mind.  This includes coverage of the neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and pharmacological mechanisms that are associated with cognition in terms of attention, language, memory, spatial processing, planning and other executive functions, emotion, and consciousness.

PSRU-4510-Evolutionary Psychology (4) Syllabus via Blackboard, eRes, or email.
An evolutionary perspective on the behavior of humans and other animals, including sex, aggression, cooperation, altruism, parenting, status, and social dominance. Ideas from Darwin, Freud, Dawkins, Wilson and others will be discussed.