Physiological Psychology Online Didactic Course

The Physiological Psychology online didactic course fulfills BCIA’s Human Anatomy and Physiology requirement for neurofeedback certification. Once purchased you will receive access with 1-2 business days.

After you enroll in this online course, you must complete it within 1 year of purchase. You must purchase Breedlove and Watson's Behavioral Neuroscience (10th ed.), Sinauer (publisher), review the corresponding PowerPoints, and must pass 14 chapter exams with scores of 70% or higher. Each exam will consist of 20 multiple-choice questions taken on Blackboard CourseSites. You will have unlimited time to complete each exam. You may retake each exam until you achieve a passing score. After submitting answers, you will see an overall score and the questions they missed.

We encourage you to use the practice testing and animation resources on the publisher’s website, review the PowerPoints in Course Documents on Blackboard CourseSites, and check out the articles and videos in the Web Links section.

Didactic coverage

This online course is comparable in coverage to a 3-credit-hour undergraduate course and will satisfy BCIA’s neurofeedback anatomy and physiology requirement. To keep its cost low, this course does not provide continuing education credits. Seminars Without Borders will provide you with a certificate of completion when you have completed all 14 chapter exams.

Faculty credentials

Fred Shaffer, PhD, BCB, Professor of Psychology at Truman State University, has taught Physiological Psychology for three decades.

Based on the leading Behavioral Neuroscience (10th ed.) textbook by Breedlove and Watson, this course covers:

1. Functional Neuroanatomy (Chapter 2)
2. Neurophysiology (Chapter 3)
3. The Chemistry of Behavior (Chapter 4)
4. Hormones and the Brain (Chapter 5)
5. Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behavior (Chapter 7)
6. General Principles of Sensory Processing, Touch, and Pain (Chapter 8)
7. Hearing, Vestibular Perception, Taste, and Smell (Chapter 9)
8. Vision: From Eye to Brain (Chapter 10)
9. Motor Control and Plasticity (Chapter 11)
10. Biological Rhythms, Sleep, and Dreaming (Chapter 14)
11. Emotions, Aggression, and Stress (Chapter 15)
12. Psychopathology: Biological Basis of Behavioral Disorders (Chapter 16)
13. Learning and Memory (Chapter 17)
14. Attention and Higher Cognition (Chapter 18)

You must purchase Breedlove and Watson's Behavioral Neuroscience (10th ed.), Sinauer (publisher), review the corresponding PowerPoints, and must pass 14 chapter exams with scores of 70% or higher. Each exam will consist of 20 multiple-choice questions taken on Blackboard CourseSites. You will have unlimited time to complete each exam. You may retake each exam until you achieve a passing score. After submitting answers, you will see an overall score and the questions they missed.

We encourage you to use the practice testing and animation resources on the publisher’s website, review the PowerPoints in Course Documents on Blackboard CourseSites, and check out the articles and videos in the Web Links section.