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PSYCH 575 Entire Course (UOP)

• PSYCH 575 Week 1 Individual Assignment Biological
  Psychology Worksheet
• PSYCH 575 Week 1 DQ 1
• PSYCH 575 Week 1 DQ 2
• PSYCH 575 Week 2 Individual Assignment Neuron
  Worksheet
• PSYCH 575 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment
  Outline and Reference List for Neurotransmitters
  Chart
• PSYCH 575 Week 2 DQ 1
• PSYCH 575 Week 2 DQ 2
• PSYCH 575 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment
  Neurotransmitters Chart

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PSYCH 575 Week 1 DQ 1

• What are the major underlying assumptions of
  physiological psychology? What effect do these
  assumptions have on psychology?

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PSYCH 575 Week 1 DQ 2

• What are some techniques or research methods used
  to examine the link between the brain and
  behavior? What are some findings in biological
  psychology that can result or have resulted from
  these techniques or research methods?

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PSYCH 575 Week 1 Individual Assignment Biological
Psychology Worksheet

• Answer the following questions with 50-to
  100-word responses. Prepare to discuss your
  answers.1. What are the core assumptions of the
  biopsychological approach?2. What historical
  disciplines converge to create biological
  psychology?3. What are some of the earliest
  examples of a biological approach to studying
  behavior?4. What are some examples of modern
  careers that have resulted from studying
  biological psychology? Include an overview of the
  careers.5. How is biological psychology viewed
  by other professionals in psychology today?

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PSYCH 575 Week 2 DQ 1

• Select two glial cells. Describe their structure
  and functions in the nervous system.

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PSYCH 575 Week 2 DQ 2

• In the brain, most excitatory communication in
  synapses occurs by way of glutamate and most
  inhibitory communication occurs by way of
  gamma-aminobutyric acid. In general terms,
  describe what the other neurotransmitters do.

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PSYCH 575 Week 2 Individual Assignment Neuron
Worksheet

• Part I In the text boxes provided, identify the
  structures of a basic neuron.Part II In the
  space provided, explain the process a neuron
  undergoes when going from aresting potential to
  an action potential to the release of its
  neurotransmitters.

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PSYCH 575 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Outline
and Reference

• Begin working on the Neurotransmitters Chart
  assignment.Create an Outline of the Chart (what
  neurotransmitters that will be presented)Determin
  e who will be assigned to complete each section
  and indicate on the outline.Attach the Reference
  List in APA formatting.

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PSYCH 575 Week 3 DQ 1

• What are the five senses? What is the nature of
  sensation and perception, as they apply to the
  five senses? In your opinion, which is more
  important, sensation or perception?

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PSYCH 575 Week 3 DQ 2

• Describe how vision, hearing, and motor control
  are affected in a person who suffers from a
  stroke

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PSYCH 575 Week 3 Individual Assignment Historical
Case Study

• Select a well documented historical case study of
  an individual who experienced a neurological
  disorder, disease, or accident that resulted in
  an interruption in his or her vision, hearing, or
  motor control.Prepare a 7- to 10-slide
  Microsoft Power Point presentation addressing
  the following questionsWhat neurological
  disorder, disease, or accident took place to
  interrupt this individuals ability? What
  behaviors were exhibited by this individual
  following the disorder, disease, or accident?
  What were the individuals deficits as a result
  of this disorder, disease, or accident?

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PSYCH 575 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment
Neurotransmitters Chart

• Complete the University of Phoenix Material
  Neurotransmitter Chart, located on the student
  website

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PSYCH 575 Week 4 DQ 1

• Explain the difference between positive emotions
  on memory and stressful or fearful emotions on
  memory. Why do positive life experiences last in
  long-term memory, while stressful or fearful life
  experiences are often lost or buried in peoples
  memories?

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PSYCH 575 Week 4 DQ 2

• If we learn what we remember and remember what we
  learn, provide a neurological explanationthe
  best you can with current findingsof why people
  with Alzheimers disease forget what they have
  learned and may have known for decades.

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PSYCH 575 Week 4 Learning Team Assignment The Man
Without a Memory Paper

• Open an Internet search engine. Search for and
  view the following videoMan without a Memory-
  Clive Wearing. Address, in a 350- to 700-word
  paper, the following questions with your Learning
  Team How would you define the relationship
  between learning something and remembering it?
  What specific region of Clives brain is damaged
  to result in this memory loss? How do you
  explain Clives loss of memory for most things,
  despite his lasting memory for his wife and the
  piano? If you were Clive, what memories would
  you miss the most?

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PSYCH 575 Week 5 DQ 1

• What is psychopharmacology? What are some
  positive aspects related to psychopharmacology?
  What are some drawbacks?

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PSYCH 575 Week 5 DQ 2

• Therapies have come a long way to help those with
  neurological, psychological, or neuro
  developmental disorders. Provide two cognitive
  and two pharmacological therapies you believe are
  the most promising and why. Identify what
  disorders they are designed to help.

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PSYCH 575 Week 5 Individual Assignment Disorder
Paper

• Select a neurological, psychological, or
  neurodevelopmental disorder. Write a 2,450- to
  3,500-word paper comparing and contrasting three
  therapeutic interventions used to treat this
  disorder. Compare measures of effectiveness, such
  as validity, efficacy, symptom and behavior
  management, and recidivism. One therapy should be
  cognitive in nature, one should be
  pharmacological in nature, and the third should
  be an alternative therapeutic treatment.
  Identify common symptoms associated with your
  disorder and rates of symptom reduction or
  management as reported with the three treatments.
  Based on your research, what would be your
  approach to treating the condition? Identify
  which treatments you would use. Explain why.

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PSYCH 575 Week 6 DQ 1

• How does the use of alcohol affect pregnancy?
  What kinds of long-term behavioral effects can
  result from fetal alcohol syndrome? Do you
  believe that drug abuse is hereditary? Why or why
  not?

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PSYCH 575 Week 6 DQ 2

• Do you believe that drug abuse is hereditary? Why
  or why not?

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PSYCH 575 Week 6 Learning Team Assignment Effect
of Drug Use Presentation

• Select one brain-altering druga street drug, a
  prescription drug, or a legal drug, such as
  alcohol or tobacco. Create a 10- to 15-slide
  Microsoft PowerPoint presentation in which you
  address the following Identify your drug and
  define its primary use in our culture. Identify
  rates of use and populations affected by using
  this drug. Discuss the regions of the brain
  affected by this drug. How does this drug alter
  brain chemistry?

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