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About Teaching the Physiological Psychology Course
Physiological psychology is the branch of the field of neuroscience concerned with the physiological mechanisms that govern behavior. It is an area that interfaces between psychology's concern with understanding the behavior of humans and animals and those areas of neuroscience related to understanding the brain. Your goal in this course is to introduce students to the physiological bases of behavior. At the start of the course, you will provide your students with an elementary background in neurons and neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, and the methods used in physiological research. These are the core concepts by which we understand, approach, and explain the content areas of physiological psychology. After grasping these concepts, students can begin to understand how the nervous system processes sensory input (visual, auditory, and tactile) as well as how muscle systems control movement. Similarly, these core concepts allow students to begin to understand how discrete nervous system mechanisms can contribute to the control of behaviors as diverse as feeding and drinking, sexual behavior, addictions, memory, and thought.
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