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Introduction to Psychology
Unit 2: Biological Bases of Behavior
Sensation and Perception

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8-9% Biological bases of behavior
  • Neuroanatomy
  • Functional organization of the nervous system
  • Endocrine system
  • Physiological techniques
  • Genetics
  • Etiology
    7-8% Sensation and perception
  • Receptor processes: vision, audition
  • Sensory mechanisms: thresholds, adaptation
  • Other senses: somethesis, olfaction, gustation, vestibular system
  • Perceptual development
  • Perceptual processes
  • Attention
  • Video
    The Behaving Brain from Discovering Psychology
    This program discusses the structure and composition of the brain: how neurons function, how information is collected and transmitted, and how chemical reactions determine every thought, feeling, and action. With Dr. John Gabrieli of Stanford University and Dr. Mieke Verfaellie of Veterans Medical Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Updated. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

    The Responsive Brain from Discovering Psychology
    How the brain controls behavior and, conversely, how behavior and environment influence the brain’s structure and functioning are the focus of this program. With Dr. Michael Meaney of McGill University and Dr. Russell Fernald of Stanford University. Updated. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

    Cognitive Neuroscience from Discovering Psychology
    Cognitive neuroscience represents the attempt to understand mental processes at the level of the brain’s functioning and not merely from information-processing models and theories. It relies heavily on an empirical analysis of what is happening in the brain, and where, when a person thinks, reasons, decides, judges, encodes information, recalls information, learns, and solves problems. Cognitive neuroscience allies psychologists, biologists, brain researchers, and others in what is perhaps the most dramatic advance in the last decade of psychological research. With Dr. John Gabrieli of Stanford University and Dr. Stephen Kosslyn of Harvard University. New. (Broadband Video on Demand) 

    Text

    The Brain : Boeree

    The Neuron : Boeree

    Genetics : Boeree

    Perception and Interaction : Boeree

    Neurology : Sparknotes

    Unit 2 - Invitation to Psychology : SIU
  • Chapter 3 The Genetics of Behavior
  • Chapter 4 Neurons, Hormones, and Neurotransmitters
  • Chapter 5 Evaluating the Biological Perspective
  • Lectures

    Genetic and Evolutionary Foundations of Behavior : Ferguson

    The Nervous System : Ferguson

    Lecture 1 The Brain; The Nervous System : Kean

    Lecture 2 Illustrated Nervous System : Kean

    Lecture 3 Disorders in Association Cortex : Kean

    Agnosia
    Prosopagnosia
    Sensory Neglect
    Autotopagnosia
    Language Deficits

    Lecture 4 Cells in the Nervous System : Kean

    Neuron
    Electrical activity in the neuron
    Principles of Neural Action

    Lecture 5 Sir Charles Sherrington; Synaptic Transmission : Kean

    Endocrine System

    Lecture Notes for Week 2 : Cannon

    Cells of the Nervous System
    Communication within a Neuron
    Stages of Action Potential
    Synaptic Transmission

    Lecture Notes for Week 3 : Cannon

    Structure of the Nervous System

    Lecture 1 notes : Kean

    Cognition
    Sensation

    Lecture 2 notes : Kean

    Psychophysics (Sensation & Detection)
    Signal Detection Theory

    Lecture 3 notes : Kean

    The Senses
    Kinesthesis and the vestibular senses
    Skin senses
    Taste
    Smell
    Hearing

    Lecture 4 notes : Kean

    Vision
    Visual Pathways

    Lecture 5 notes : Kean

    Vision
    Interaction
    Physiology

    Lecture 6 notes : Kean

    Color
    Color Contrast

    Lecture 7 notes : Kean

    Perception
    Perception of Depth
    Perception of Movement

    Lecture 8 notes : Kean

    Form Perception
    Perceptual Segregation
    Pattern Recognition Lecture 9 notes : Kean
    Perceptual Problem Solving
    Perceptual Selection

    Attention : Kean

    Lecture 10 notes : Kean

    Perception of Reality

    Unit II - The Biological Perspective : SIU

    Brain and Nervous System : Redwoods

    Sensation and Perception : Redwoods

    Biological Psychology : Pritchard

    Serendip : Brain and Behavior: Bryn Mawr

    Tutorials : Krantz Click onBasic Neural Functions

    Serendip : Genes and Behavior : Bryn Mawr

    Tutorials : Krantz Click onHow do we perceive sound and Sensation and Perception

    Follow some other links under Quiz

    Ace Practice Tests: Bernstein Click on Chapter 3: Sensation and Perception

    Neurology Review : Sparknotes

    Library

    610.285 HUMA editors of Time-Life Books. The Human body

    PER. JAN/FEB 2001 Psychology Today [magazine] 2001.

    Resources

    Lecture Notes for Week 4 : Cannon
    Types of Muscles

    Lecture Notes for Week 5 : Cannon

    Ingestive Behavior: Drinking

    Lecture Notes for Week 6 : Cannon

    Visual System

    Lecture Notes for Week 8 : Cannon

    Eating

    Lecture Notes for Week 9 : Cannon

    Reproduction

    Ameoba Web Click on Biopsychology

    Ameoba Web Click on Sensation and Perception


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