PSYC 2015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Central Nervous System, Critical Thinking, Microsoft Powerpoint
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Guangying wu, phd, assistant professor, dept. of psychology & institute for neuroscience. Office hours: thursdays 11:00 am 12:00 pm, or by appointment. Ta: collegio, aj (ajcollegio@gwu. edu), phd student in cognitive neuroscience. Office hours: gg107, tuesdays 12:00 pm 2:00 pm, or by appointment. This semester, we will explore our brain and try to understand what brain mechanisms are underlying our daily behaviors. We will seek current understandings to explain how and why we behave this way at the molecular, cellular, systems levels. Recent literatures related to each topic will be critically discussed together with the background from our textbook. The following materials are required for the course and are available in the campus bookstore: kalat, james w. biological psychology, 12th edition. (2015). 2: * i>clickers are available for rent or purchase at the campus bookstore. If your i>clicker stops working, try to change the batteries first.
