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A biopsychology course looking at the relationship between brain and behaviour. This distance learning course looks at how our physical state affects how we behave and think.
£499.00
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A biopsychology course looking at the relationship between brain and behaviour. This distance learning course looks at how our physical state affects how we behave and think.
Course Content & Structure:
Core Modules
There are six modules in the course.
Elective Modules
Then choose 3 electives from the following list
More on the Core Modules
Biopsychology
There are 7 lessons in this course:
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Neuropsychology
There are 10 lessons in this course:
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Psychopharmacology
There are 11 lessons in this course:
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school’s tutors, and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
Learn to Understand People
Although psychologists are primarily concerned with behaviour, an understanding of the biology of the brain and central nervous system can help to unravel why people behave the way they do in given instances. In fact, biological psychology holds that all our behaviours, thoughts and experiences are a direct consequence of activity in our brains.
Not all causes of behaviour are quite so easy to explain. There are other underlying determinants of behaviour – genetics being one. In fact, we have long known that genetics is a key determinant of how we behave, and this can most obviously be seen through studying our nervous systems. Closely linked to genetics is human development. Development is governed by our genes and their interactions with the environment.
The study of biopsychology is a big part of understanding people. Through a better understanding of how people think, we can better understand how and why people act as they do. This knowledge allows a marketing professional to target their marketing more effectively, and a manager to control their staff better; just as much as it helps a health care professional better care for their clients or patients.
Study of brain function, development, injury and damage can help in different fields such as education, research and development of treatments. The more we can learn, the better the treatment options will be. It can take many years to gather data, perhaps because it is taken form case studies or perhaps because of the rarity of some conditions, nevertheless we have come a long way since studies of the brain began.
From a clinical perspective, neuropsychology has two main areas of application, namely assessment and rehabilitation.
Aside from these obvious applications, study of the brain and behaviour stretches far and wide into our daily lives, perhaps more broadly than many people realise.
Brain Studies and Children
By studying the brain and how it develops, we can learn more about children and how they learn. We have already discussed how changes in the brain affect what a child is ready and able to learn. If a child is ready to learn to read developmentally, but is not stimulated to learn to read, this can affect their development. If a child is not ready to read, and is forced to start learning to read, then again, this can affect their development. So it is important that teachers are aware of how the child is developing, what is expected of a child of a certain age, but also recognising that all children are different. Children develop in different ways and what they are capable of and ready for, will vary from child to child.
Beyond this, we can also use the study of neuropsychology to look at different ways to help children learn and improve their memories.
Neuropsychological assessments are tools that have traditionally been used in hospitals by psychiatrists and psychologists, but teachers have come to realise that they can also be used in assessing children educationally. For example, school psychologists or educational psychologists can use them to assess children with special needs.
Neuropsychology helps us to study the function of the brain and how the nervous system affects the way that people think and behave. It is also now helping in determining why some children have difficulties acquiring language skills, reading, learning arithmetic and so on. So neurological assessments can be used to determine how much of the child’s school performance is due to the function of their brain and nervous system. It can also help the school to determine the child’s skills and the best learning environment for them.
In practice, this will involve gathering information about the child’s development physically, psychologically, educationally, and socially. This can include observations by parents, formal observations, standardised assessment methods and other tests.
Biopsychology course studying the interaction between our brain and biology, how our physiology affects the way we think.
This distance learning course looks at –
Chemicals affect our brain and our bodies and affects how we behave.
This certificate course looks at the interactions between anatomical structures, physiological processes and behaviour of the brain.
Start Date
You can start the course at any time. To suit YOU.
Duration
600 hours
The course requires the completion of six 100-hour modules.
Who is this course suitable for?
It will improve your job and career prospects and is suitable for:
People working with medications but want to know more such as nursing home staff and carers
People working as counsellors but would like to be more informed
Anyone interested in the effects of drugs and medication upon the human body and mind.
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