Class sessions and reading assignments will be devoted to basic physiology, measurement concepts, and psychophysiological phenomena. Between class meetings, you will take part in structured laboratory exercises designed to demonstrate some of the phenomena and research protocols about which you have been learning, and to give you direct experience with the recording equipment. You and your classmates will serve as the subjects for most of these exercises, although for one exercise our subjects will come from Professor deWinstanley s Applied Psychological Science colloquium. Course Requirements Personal responsibility . This course depends upon individual contribution and coordinated action.
Personal responsibility is, therefore, a course requirement.
For starters, our course structure is such that your attendance at all scheduled class periods is mandatory. If you are absent, you may miss important information and turn a subsequent lab session into a train wreck. Since the data you collect form a part of everyone s analytic exercise, such easily-avoidable disasters are unacceptable. Your absence may also handicap your teammates ability to schedule lab time, etc. I also expect you to be reliable about keeping laboratory appointments.