Neuroscience
To support our students in BSIC 105 the Department has developed a series 5-10-minute supplemental videos exploring some of the topics you learn in BSCI 105 and how they are related to familiar (and interesting) psychological phenomena.
In this module, we explore how the body processes external information such that we can interpret what we have seen, smelled, tasted, heard, or touched.
Watch Sensations, Perceptions & Membrane Potentials
Download the script
See quiz questions and answers
Textbook Chapters* to Refer to:
Ch. 6: A Tour of the Cell
Ch. 7: Membrane Structure and Function
Ch. 11: Cell Communication
Other interesting links:
*Reece, J.B., Urry, LA., Cain, M.L., Wasserman, S.A., Minorsky, P.V., Jackson, R.B. (2011). Campbell Biology (9th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson Benjamin Cummings.
Goodenough, J.G., Wallace, R.A., McGuire B. (1998). Human Biology. Barrosse, E. (Ed.). Orlando, FL: Saunders College Publishing.
Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2007). Abnormal Psychology (4th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
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Neuroscience
BSCI 105 for PSYC Majors - Sensations, Perceptions & Membrane Potentials
To support our students in BSIC 105 the Department has developed a series 5-10-minute supplemental videos exploring some of the topics you learn in BSCI 105 and how they are related to familiar (and interesting) psychological phenomena.In this module, we explore how the body processes external information such that we can interpret what we have seen, smelled, tasted, heard, or touched.
Watch Sensations, Perceptions & Membrane Potentials
Download the script
See quiz questions and answers
Textbook Chapters* to Refer to:
Ch. 6: A Tour of the Cell
Ch. 7: Membrane Structure and Function
Ch. 11: Cell Communication
Other interesting links:
- Animation: The Nerve Impulse [McGraw-Hill] ()
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- "Olfaction and Memory”
Sources:
*Reece, J.B., Urry, LA., Cain, M.L., Wasserman, S.A., Minorsky, P.V., Jackson, R.B. (2011). Campbell Biology (9th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson Benjamin Cummings.
Goodenough, J.G., Wallace, R.A., McGuire B. (1998). Human Biology. Barrosse, E. (Ed.). Orlando, FL: Saunders College Publishing.
Nolen-Hoeksema, S. (2007). Abnormal Psychology (4th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
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