PSYC2004 — Thinking, Sleep, and Mental Disorders
PSYC 2004 - Thinking, Sleep, and Mental Disorders PSYC 2004 - Thinking, Sleep, and Mental Disorders Hours/Week: Lecture 1 Lab None Course Description: This course is an introduction to the brain’s role in the higher mental and psychological functions that people experience. The focus is on how the brain and nervous system contribute to and influence complex cognitive processes, sleep, awareness, and psychological abnormalities such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, and Alzheimer’s disease. This course presents the most recent findings in the scientific study of the biopsychology of learning, memory, cognition, sleep, consciousness, and mental disorders. MnTC Goals 5 History/Social/Behavioral Science describe classical and operant conditioning and the process of long-term potentiation. summarize the components of learning and memory in the brain and at the synapse. describe the stages of sleep and their corresponding physiological correlates. explain different types of memory and how they correlate to different regions of the brain. compare and contrast the brain regions and physiology associated with at least three different psychological disorders. explain the problems inherent in measuring and assessing consciousness. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6) 05. 01. Employ the methods and data that historians and social and behavioral scientists use to investigate the human condition. 05. 02. Examine social institutions
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052