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All information on this syllabus is tentative; you are responsible to check UBLearns on a regular basis to ensureyou have the most up-to-date syllabus.Psychology 351: Biopsychology – Fall 2014Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12-12:50, NSC 225InstructorDr. Paul MeyerEmail: [email protected]: (716) 645-0263Office hours: Park Hall B72 Monday 10-11:30, and by appointment. Course Goals/DescriptionThis course is a general survey of the biological bases of behavior. We will focus on structure and function ofthe nervous system, with the control of behavior as the overarching theme. After successfully completing thiscourse, you will have been exposed to the basic information required for any of the upper level behavioralneuroscience courses offered by the psychology department at the University at Buffalo. The course is a largelecture course. Lectures are provided to supplement the text and to refine information in the text. Not allmaterial in the text will be covered in class and some material covered in class will not be in the text. You areresponsible for all of the material in the assigned book chapters and all of the material described in class.Exceptions to this will be pointed out when necessary. In general, slides used in class will not be available onUB learns before each class. Some, but not all slides will appear on UB learns after completion of the lecture.Required Materials:Foundations of Behavioral Neuroscience, Neil R. Carlson, 9th EditionOnline ResourcesClass resources (including syllabus, lecture slides, quizzes) will be available online using UBlearns. Hardcopies of these things will not be handed out during class.Teaching assistantsThere are several teaching assistants assigned for the course. Your TAs are your first points of contact forquestions or clarification about the course. Contact with the TAs can be through office hours or email. All TAoffice hours will be held in the Psychology Resource room, Park Hall 282, as indicated below. Ifcommunicating by email, please consult the list below to determine which TA you should contact for emailquestions, but you should feel free to attend whichever office hour best suits your schedule. If your last name begins with the letter A-F, your first point of contact will be:Chris King, email: [email protected] hours –If your last name begins with the letter G-L, your first point of contact will be:Lan Le, email: [email protected] hours –If your last name begins with the letter N-R, your first point of contact will be:Aleena Hussain, email: [email protected] hours – If your last name begins with the letter S-Z, your first point of contact will be:Mahrein Syed, email: [email protected] hours –Course Requirements and AssessmentReading: You are expected to read assigned readings prior to class, attend class regularly and ask forclarification when necessary. Lectures will not attempt to comprehensively cover or faithfully follow thereadings. Rather, they will focus on concepts and details that are most important or difficult to understand. Both lecture and reading material will be represented on quizzes and exams.Tests: There will be four in-class tests given during the semester, each worth 15% of your final grade. Thelowest score of these four tests will be dropped when calculating your final grade. Missed tests will receive ascore of zero points. Except for very rare and unusual circumstances, there will be no make-up tests. Thus, youshould plan to take each of the four tests, regardless of your performance. Things frequently happen that mightprevent a student from taking a test, so don’t blow off an early test, because you may have an unanticipatedevent that prevents you from taking a later test. Each test will likely be a combination of multiple choice,matching, true/false, and short answer. The amount of each type of question may vary between the tests. Assuggested earlier, the tests will cover material presented in the required reading as well as material presented inlecture. This also includes material presented in one or the other, but not both (i.e., if it was presented in class,but isn’t in the book, it’s still fair game). Please note that coming to a test or exam after the start time is notacceptable. Students who arrive late risk being prohibited from taking the test. Quizzes will be available in the Assignment section of the UB learns page for this course. There will be onemultiple choice quiz for each chapter. The quizzes must be completed before the material is covered in lecture.For example, we are currently scheduled to begin discussing Synaptic Transmission on September 12th. Thismaterial is described in chapter 4 of your text. The quiz for chapter 4 will be available no fewer than 2 daysbefore September 12th (sometimes 3-5 days before), but will disappear from UB learns at 12:00 AM September12th. The only exceptions are quizzes 1-3, which you will be allowed more time for because it’s the beginning ofclass. There are no make-up quizzes and no extensions to the deadline. The quizzes are intended to insure thatyou read and digest at least some of the material before listening to the lectures. In this manner you get credit inthe course for doing what is expected of you anyway.Cumulative Final Exam: Thirty percent of your final grade for the course will be determined by your performance on a cumulative final exam. The final exam will be given during exam week and will be scheduledby the university. The format of the final exam will be similar to that of the in-class tests.Student Learning Outcomes: At the end of this course students will Assessment 1) Recognize, identify, and describe key concepts in the neural and/or endocrine control of behavior.Quizzes, Exams, Tests2) Identify parts of the nervous system. Quizzes, Exams, Tests3) Possess a basic knowledge of the function of the nervous system.Quizzes, Exams, TestsThe student learning outcomes for this course address the goals detailed for the Department of Psychology's Undergraduate Program as described on the Department's Undergraduate Program web page: http://www.psychology.buffalo.edu/undergraduate/Grades will be awarded on an absolute scale. In other words, we will not hesitate to give everyone an A if theirpercent score is high enough. The tables above and below show how grades are calculated and scaled. You


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