Regular+Psychology

cognitive neuroscience || What are the main parts of the brain, in terms of structure and function? How does cognitive neuroscience link with psychology in terms of behavior (including injury induced changes)? What is involved in the nervous system? || Structure and function (Anatomy and physiology) The sensory system The endocrine system ||  || Radiolab - "When brains attack" TED-ed "Johnathan Ronson and the Psychopath Test" The chemistry of love (serves as an introduction to the endocrine system) Case studies - Group work that involves first person stories that allude to particular illness/injury and it is up to the students to figure out what is wrong with each case || Group Work: Students are put into groups and tasked with creating a presentation about a certain psychological issue like psychopathy, ADD, schizophrenia, sociopathy, severe depression. The purpose of this activity is to link disorders and issues with parts of the brain (actual physiological relationship), as well as talk about the medications that are used in their treatments (if any), which breaks down the mechanism of action and tasks the students to understand the full scope of these disorders at a physiological/biological level
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 * 1 || Introduction to

Quizzes (relating to the Radiolab and Ted-ed presentations) || How are memories created (short vs. long term)? What are the seven sins of memory? (the unreliability of eyewitnesses, the difference in the playback of shared memories) What effects memory? (including ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * || Memory and dreaming || What is the purpose of dreaming?