Students learn basic research methods used to study brain-behavior relationships. Laboratory exercises include sheep brain dissection, surgical procedures in rats, and the testing of various behavioral systems in response to physiological challenge. After conducting experiments, students write up their findings. Students conduct experiments to study behavior that occurs in the presence or the implied presence of others and report on their findings. Students conduct a series of animal conditioning experiments and report on the findings.
Students perform a number of computer-based experiments and report on their findings.
Theory and practice of individualized instructional systems. Topically organized survey of all aspects of psychological development from infancy through adulthood. Primarily inferential statistics. Bridges the gap between Elementary Statistics and the 500-level courses in psychological statistics. Includes a computer laboratory.