PSY 620 Psychology, Biology and Technology
The meaning of "psyche," as a defining concept of psychological study, has changed a number of times. In recent years, its meaning has come under particular scrutiny with advances in the biological and computational sciences. This course examines how ongoing research influences the way in which we think of ourselves, our abilities, and our limitations, thereby helping to define what it is that psychology studies and how it contributes to our understanding of the human situation. It examines how these issues in psychology relate to our concepts of the normal and the therapeutic, the natural and the mechanical, and puts them into a larger social context.