Focus on drug and disease states as a way of getting insights into this problem in animals and humans. PSB 4824 Biological Rhythms. Special Topics in Physiological Psychology. Course provides an opportunity for study in depth of topics not offered in other courses. Designed to provide a broad, general introduction to the field of psychology, this course is the prerequisite for advanced courses in psychology.
Emphasis is on psychology as a research enterprise.
Students are required to participate as subjects in psychological research or write a paper on a psychological research article. An introduction to current techniques used in research in the various areas of psychology by participation in on-going research. PSY 4604 History and Systems of Psychology. 3 Traces the history of psychology and psychological thought from the early Greek philosophers to the present. The course covers the foundations laid by philosophers, the emergence of psychology as a separate discipline in the nineteenth century, and the development of psychology in the twentieth century.