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Information Technology: Course Web Pages, Winter 2006

Important: Psychology courses now use Bruin OnLine (BOL) IDs as your Username. Your password is your 9-digit student ID number. Course web pages will not be activated until the first week of class.

Psychology 112A - Balleine

Course Description
Lecture, 90 minutes; discussion, 90 minutes. Requisites: courses 10, 100A, 110. Designed for juniors/seniors. Examination of some basic processes underlying motivated behavior, stressing environmental determinants of behaviors such as feeding, drinking, and reproduction-related behavior. Discussion of physiological mechanisms that contribute to such behaviors. Consideration of topics such as reinforcement, acquired motivation, and drug addiction. Evaluation of evidence obtained in laboratory studies conducted with animals. P/NP or letter grading.