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Micro-credential certification in Biological Psychology PSY1034 (BPSY)
Overview:
Awarding Body:
This programme is designed, delivered, assessed and awarded by SEGi University through the SEGiUniDigital Platform.
Discipline:
Psychology
Entry Requirements:
Entry Requirements - No
Age Experience - 23 Years Above
Language Proficiency - Yes
Numeracy Proficiency - No
Pre-requisites - No
Contents:
- Biopsychology as a Neuroscience: What Is Biopsychology, Anyway
- Biopsychology
- Research characterize Biopsychological approach
- Division of biopsychology
- Evolution, Genetics, and Experience: Thinking about the Biology of Behavior
- Human Evolution
- Fundamental genetics
- Intercation between genetics and individual differences
- Genetic and psychological differences
- Anatomy of the Nervous System: Systems, Structures, and Cells That Make Up Your Nervous System
- general layout of the nervous system
- Cells of the nervous system
- Spinal Cord
- Major structures of the brain
- Neural Conduction and Synaptic Transmission: How Neurons Send and Receive Signals
- Resting membrane potential; Postsynaptic potentials
- Synaptic Transmission; Neurotransmitter
- The Visual System: How We See
- Lights to Retina; Retina pto primary cortex
- Seeing edges and colors; Cortical mechanisms of vision and conscious awareness
- Mechanisms of Perception: Hearing, Touch, Smell, Taste, and Attention: How You Know the World
- Sensory system
- Auditory system
- Somatosensory system
- Chemical senses
- Selective attention
- The Sensorimotor System: How You Move
- Sensory motor function
- Sensory motor association cortex
- Motor cortex
- Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia
- Sensory motor spinal circuits
- Central sensory motor program and learning"
- Development of the Nervous System: From Fertilized Egg to You
- phases of neurodevelopment
- postnatal development; effects of postnatal development
- Neuroplasticity
- Disorders in neurodevelopment
- Brain Damage and Neuroplasticity: Can the Brain Recover from Damage?
- Causes of brain damage
- Neurological diseases
- Responses to nervous system damage
- Treatment of CNS damage
- Learning, Memory, and Amnesia: How Your Brain Stores Information
- Amnesic Effects of Bilateral Medial Temporal Lobectomy
- Hippocampus in memory
- where are memories stored
- Synpatic mechanisms of learning and memory
- Hunger, Eating, and Health: Why Do Many People Eat Too Much?
- Digestion, energy storage, and energy utilization; Theories of hunger and eating
- Body weight regulation; Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa
- Sleep, Dreaming, and Circadian Rhythms: How Much Do You Need to Sleep?
- Stages of sleep; Effects of sleep deprivation; Circadian sleep cycles
- Four areas of the brain involved in sleep; Drugs that affect sleep
- Sleep disorder; Effects of long-term sleep reduction"
- Drug Use, Drug Addiction, and the Brain’s Reward Circuits: Chemicals That Harm with Pleasure
- Basic principles of drug action
- Role of learning in drug tolerance
- Five commonly abused drug
- Biopsychological research on addiction
- Lateralization, Language, and the Split Brain: The Left Brain and the Right Brain
- Cerebral lateralization of function
- The split brain
- Left and right hemisphere
- Cortical localization of language; Wernicke-Geschwind model
- Cognitive neuroscience in language and Dyslexia
Assessments:
Coursework - 60%
Exam - 40%
Credit Transfer:
Upon successful completion of this Micro-credential certification in Biological Psychology (BPSY), students will be able to transfer grades and credits into the following programme(s):
- Bachelor of Psychology
Continuing Education:
Upon successful completion of this Bachelor of Psychology programme and meeting the necessary entry requirements, students will be able to progress into the following programme(s):
- Master of Psychology