Psychology 2360 Brain and Behaviour
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Psychology 2360
Brain and Behaviour
Welcome to the course
This course presents the fundamentals of Neuroscience.
Basic neuroscience – brain cells, neuroanatomy, how cells communicate.
How we know the external world (the senses).
How we interact in that world (movement).
Physiology of sex, sleep and feeling.
Who are we?Dr. Jonathan Marotta
• Email: [email protected]• Office: P310 Duff Roblin • Phone: 204-474-7057
Grader MarkersCharlotte Leferink
• Email: [email protected]• Office Hours: Thursdays 1-2pm]• P239
Dina Tabatabei• Email: [email protected]• Office Hours: Wednesdays 3-4pm• P411
Have question you didn't think of in class? Email your grader markers – they are happy to help.
Or, setup an appointment with them or me.
Textbook
Carlson’s Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience The bookstore has a custom version of this book created
for this class.
MyPsychLab Course ID: marotta36713
Do yourself a favour (i.e. DO THIS) • read the text book before class and use the online lecture
notes• review the lectures regularly and re-read the text book
after class• this may seem like a lot to handle – trust me, its worth it.
Course web page
http://um-neuroscience.blogspot.ca/• Will contain lectures, useful information and answers to your
emailed questions.
• Lectures will be posted one week or more before they are presented in class.
• Bring lecture notes to class so that you can just add to them and not have to write
down everything I’m saying.
• I would encourage you to go through the lectures online as well because all the
material doesn’t show up in printouts.
Evaluation: Term tests Jan. 26, 2016 (20%) Chapters 2-3 Mar. 1, 2016 (30%) Chapters 4-7 Mar. 17, 2016 (20%) Both Chapter
8s & 9 Apr. 7, 2016 (20%) Chapters 12-13
Online writing assignments (10%) MyPsychLab
Assignment 1: Due Mar. 7thAssignemnt 2: Due Apr. 6th
Marks Breakdown
A+ 90%+A 80-89%B+ 75-79%B 70-74%C+ 65-69%C 60-64%D 50-59%F below 50%
I want to go into Clinical Psychology to help people.
Does anyone really care about this stuff?
Clinical Neuropsychology
But, I’m interested in Social Psychology
Social Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience
Which brings us to where we’ll start…
For Next Time
Start reading Chapter 2.
You will want to read this chapter several times before the term test. There is a lot to learn here.