Hello everyone, and welcome to
Psychology 372, Physiological Psychology. My name is Steve Meier and I’m the
instructor for the course.
During this section, what I’d like you to do is sit back
go with me as we walk through the different parts of the course and get an
idea about how a web based course works. The first thing I’d like you to do
before you do anything else is click on the “new student start here” button.
Basically, what that does is it gives me some information about some things
that’s related to your computer. What it does is helps make sure that your
computer meets all the necessary requirements you will need to complete the
course.
So once you’ve done that, then come back and click on this audio file again
and so you’ll get started.
Now that you’re back, let’s walk through a few things
within the course. The first thing that you’ll see appear is the syllabus.
The syllabus is located in a specific section within the class, with a set
of PowerPoint slides. So, I’m not going to talk too much about it right now.
However, it’s going to cover all the different aspects of the course.
Let’s click on the schedule. The schedule, as you can see
here, contains all the different topics and sections that we’re discuss
within the class. Let’s begin by clicking on lesson one, An Overview of
Physiological Psychology.
When you do that, you will see that there are several
different sections within this part. The first thing you will see is an
introduction. It kind of gives you a little bit of an overview about what
we’re going to be talking about. Just below that you will find some things
that you are going to be expected to understand or be able to perform.
Finally, I have included a variety of different terms and names and things
that I believe are important you should definitely know when taking your
exam.
On the right hand side, you will see a couple of things
under what is called the “To Do List”. The To Do List will, first of all,
contain the book reading or the chapter that you’re going to need to review.
It will also require a second activity that relates to some brain structures
that you will need to memorize. It will then have a link to the anatomy
quizzes, which will be in part of Web CT. You can then go to WEB Ct. It will
also have some study questions that you can take.
But, probably the most important part of this section are
the lectures. The lectures are an audio file and a PowerPoint presentation
that accompanies the audio file. So, if you click on the PowerPoint slides
on the right hand side, they will come up. You will then click on the audio
section and walk through the slides as I talk about each section. I will
demonstrate that as we talk about the syllabus next time. So that kind of
gives you a little bit of an overview of what the section is and kind of how
it works.
So let’s click on the back button and go back to all the
sections. As you can see in the schedule, there’s going to be about three
major sections you need to do before you can take an exam. You should take
your exam before you proceed on to the next section or you’re going to get
lost. You can actually get out of touch with what you needed to do.
So, let’s move on a little bit and give you some contact
information and tell you who I am. I am an Associate Professor at the
University of Idaho. I am also the Director of the Addictions Training
Program. My specific training and expertise is in Applied Psychology with
specializations in addictions and high risk behaviors, specifically
alcoholism. I also have considerable experience in neuroscience and
cognitive neuroscience but my expertise and really a major interest is in
psychopharmacology. I work a lot with addiction treatment agencies, do a lot
of program evaluation, and I also teach courses that are related to high
risk behavior, specifically sexually transmitted diseases. So that kind of
gives you a little bit about me. I’ve also listed at the very top some
contact information. If you need to actually come and see me, there’s
detailed parking information. Click on the button and it takes you to a site
that gives you information about where you go to get visitor’s permits and a
variety of other things as well.
Well I hope you enjoy the course and that you learn a lot.
You will need to really work hard at this class and we’ll talk a little bit
about that as we get into the syllabus. So what I’d like you to do is fill
out that information that I asked you for before. If you have done so, click
on the schedule button and then move into lesson one group. Then click on
the syllabus PowerPoint presentation that I’m going to give you.
We hope you have yourself a great day and we’ll be looking
forward to talking with you soon.
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