Biological Foundations of Behavior: Social Studies Unit 2, Grade 11 (Letters & Devotion)

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Biological Foundations of Behavior is Unit 2 of Psychology: Mind, Brain, and Behavior (Part 1) (Grade 11), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 88 pages.

• The neuron action potential as an all-or-none electrochemical event
• Neurotransmitter action (reuptake, agonist/antagonist effects) at the synapse
• Brain structure-function correspondence
• Structure-function inference from lesion evidence
• Capabilities and limits of lesion studies, EEG, and fMRI as brain-research methods
• Causal versus correlational support for brain-behavior claims in media reporting
• The biopsychosocial model applied to a specific behavior
• Heritability estimates and gene-environment interaction, distinguished from genetic determinism
• Appropriately hedged causal language for brain-behavior claims

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

AI note: The written content of this resource was drafted with AI tools, then reviewed and edited by the author.