45 CEs, Course Fee $750

Presented by Jerry R. DeVore and Richard A. Sherman, PhD

Biological Basis of Behavior Course Learning Objectives and Assessment of Student Learning

Each course level outcome below is connected to the program level outcomes and demonstrated
through the indicated module level outcome assignments.
Students will understand how the field relates to human activities, evolution and behavioral genetics –
evolution of behavior and communication, genetics of behavior, anatomy and physiology of the Central
and Peripheral Nervous Systems, hormones and behavior – pheromones, sex, nerve – hormone
interactions, mechanisms of Sensation/Perception – vision, hearing, touch (pain, electrical), smell, taste,
balance/location, etc., motor control systems, eating and drinking disorders, biological rhythms and
sleep, mechanisms of drug addiction, learning, Language, and Memory, the Malfunctioning Brain,
emotions – stress, aggression, mental illness, and psychophysiological dysfunctions and interventions.
They will learn to integrate these principles into their client interactions to improve clinical and coaching
outcomes.

Course Learning Objectives and Outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify, describe and discuss the biological basis of behavior as it related to a broad range of human activities, evolution and Behavioral Genetics. Supported by modules 1, 2, 3, 7, & 8.
2. Identify, describe and discuss the biological basis of behavior as it relates to the Central and Peripheral Nervous system and the endocrine system. Supported by modules 4, 5, & 9.
3. Identify, describe and discuss the biological basis of behavior as it relates to the mechanisms of Sensation and Perception. Supported by module 6.
4. Identify, describe and discuss the biological basis of behavior as it relates to Language, Memory and the Malfunctioning Brain. Supported by modules 11 & 12.
5. Assess, synthesize and integrate the principles of LOs 1-4 to improve clinical and coaching outcomes. Supported by modules 10, 13, & 14.

Conflict of Interest: Neither the Behavioral Medicine Research & Training Foundation, its staff, nor the course instructor have any conflict of interest involving materials presented in this course.

Format:
Home study supported by e-mail chats after each unit is completed. The lecture
portion of the course is presented through a series of audiovisual lectures
profusely illustrated by power-point slides. Reading assignments in the Pinel
book parallel the lectures. There are no lectures for a few of the topics.After
watching the lecture and reading the chapters, you will answer a brief series
of questions. The answered questions are then e-mailed to the instructor. You
and the instructor will discuss each unit via e-mail chat after your answers
are assessed.

Accessing course
materials:

Course materials will be sent to your email address through either “transfer large files” or “Dropbox” after your payment for the course is processed. This may take several days. No CDs are sent to you.

This is intended to be an interactive
course. A good portion of the money
you spent on this course covers giving you my time and attention. Please take advantage of my availability to answer your questions – especially about how this material relates to biofeedback. Don’t wait for the end of the course to ask question

The lectures are divided into individual recordings. Each recording is between 1/2 and 2 hours long. The
lectures consist of a series of slides with my voice in the background.

Please note that the “slides” are not really the type of slides used to do a
presentation in front of an audience. Rather, they are more like pages from a
book intended to be viewed on your computer monitor. Thus, they have much
greater density of material than would be found on a regular slide.

To hear my voice and to see the slides best, you need to view the slides using
Power Point’s “view slide show” setting. When in Power Point, go to “view” on
the top bar of the power point display. Select “view slide show” so the slide
occupies your entire screen.

To advance slides, double click the down arrow key on your key board (not
the arrow on the “2” key). You can see and hear the preceding slide by pressing
the up arrow key. The slides are NOT set to advance automatically so you can
spend as long on each as you wish.

To leave the slide show, move your cursor around slowly near the lower left edge
of the screen until a small, translucent box appears on the slide. Click it for
options including “end show”.  

Ifyou are in the full screen “view slide show” and your computer’s sound is on,
you should hear my voice without doing anything more. If you can’t hear me,
something is wrong with your sound system.

REVIEW QUESTIONS: The review questions you must
answer for this course are in the review questions file!     

After you attend each
lecture, you need to go to the review questions file and answer the questions for that lecture.
E-mail your answers to me (rsherman@behavmedfoundation.org).
There is no need to wait for my response before starting the next topic. I
normally reply within three days so please contact me if you don’t hear from me
within four days of sending in a submission.

Required Text: Cost of the text is not included in the cost of the course.

Pinel, John P.J., Biopsychology – 9^th edition but the 5^th through 8^th editions are fine.  2005 / 7; Published by Pearson of Boston & New York.ISBN 0-205-42651-4. Needham Heights, MA:  Allyn, & Bacon ,ISBN 0-205-34984-6.

If you are not familiar with biofeedback, you may want to read the MS Word text files entitled “rehab chapter” and “enabling chapter”.

Topics
we will cover (Note: Each topic
corresponds to one set of review questions.):

1. Definitions and Concepts – what is this field and how does it relate to the rest of the world?             (Lecture1; Pinel chapter 1)

2. Credibility of Information – research techniques, recognizing bad science (Lectures 2, 2.1, 2.2; Pinel chapters 1 and 5)

3. Evolution and Behavioral Genetics – evolution of behavior and communication, genetics of       behavior (Lecture 2.6; Pinel
chapter 2)

4. Anatomy and
Physiology of the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems – stomach brain,   plastic homunculus  (Lectures 3, 3.1, 3.2; Pinel chapters
3, 4, 8, 9, and 10)

5. Hormones and Behavior – pheromones, sex, nerve – hormone interactions

 (Lecture 3.6; Pinel chapter 13)

6. Mechanisms of Sensation/Perception – vision, hearing, touch (pain, electrical), smell, taste, balance/location, etc.   (Lectures 4, 4.1; Pinel chapters 6
& 7)

7.  Motor control systems – (Lecture 4.4; Pinel chapter 8)

8.   Eating
and Drinking – balance and disorders   (Lecture
4.6; Pinel chapter 12)

9.   Biological Rhythms and Sleep (Lecture 4.8; Pinel chapter 14)

10. Drug Addiction (Lecture 5; Pinel chapter 15)

11. Learning, Language, and Memory  (Lecture 5.4; Pinel chapters 11 &
16)

12. The Malfunctioning Brain  (Lecture 5.6; Pinel chapters 10 & 18)

13. Emotions – stress, aggression, mental
illness    (Lecture 6; Pinel
chapters 17 and 18)

14. Psychophysiological
interventions  (Lectures 9, 9.2,
9.4)

When all requirements have been successfully
completed, your course completion certificate will be e-mailed to you and BCIA will
be informed that you completed the course.

Administrative Information

 

Student comments about the courses and instructors:

Students who wish to comment about the courses and instructors other than through the “end of course” evaluations may wish to use the Foundation’s account at the anonymous comment submission site Incogneato (www.incognea.to). When a student submits a comment to our account (https://ansr.me/VWv70) on the site, there is no way for us to know who sent the comment unless the student provides an email. Students are always welcome to submit comments to this site. We take them very seriously.

Students who wish to make a formal complaint about a course or instructor can do so by following the Foundation’s grievance process which is detailed in the document by that name. Students can request the document from the program’s administrator by emailing admin@behavmedfourndation.org.

Schedule: You
can start the course whenever wish to within six months of the purchase date
and work at your own pace as long as you complete the course within one year of
purchase.

Duration of course validity: You
must begin the course within six months of the purchase date and complete it
within one year of the purchase date. Courses not completed by that time are void
and must be repurchased if still available. No refunds are provided for courses
not completed within one year of purchase.

CE Credit : These are continuing
education, not university accredited, courses. The Behavioral Medicine R&T
Foundation is approved by the American
Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for
psychologists. The Foundation maintains responsibility for this program and its
content.

BCIA: This course is accepted by the Biofeedback
Certification International Alliance for both certification and
recertification.

Payment, Refund,
and cancellation policies:  Full
payment for each course is required before the course materials are sent to you.
Payment is by credit card though our web site’s secure ordering section (www.biofeedbacktraining.org)
or by check in US dollars made out to the Behavioral Medicine R&T
Foundation and sent to the letterhead address. Full refund will be made until
students are given access to the course materials.

 NO Refunds:  After getting access to the course materials, there is no refund at all as the Foundation has committed their resources to you and you have access to all of the course materials.

 A course would only be cancelled due to an extreme emergency on the part of the course instructor or the Foundation. In the highly unlikely event a course is cancelled, you would receive a full refund.

Scholarships:
 The Foundation gives scholarships consisting of 25% off the
cost of the course(s) to (a) students and professionals (e.g. clinicians,
coaches, teachers) from emerging nations and (b) full time graduate students in
developed nations.

Questions / further information? Contact Dr. Richard Sherman  at admin@behavmedfoundation.org or 1.800.530.6658