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Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George

PSY396H1

Neurochemical Basis of Behaviour

Prerequisite2 requirements, 26 options
Total contact hours36 lecture
Evidence1 syllabus
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PSY396H1

What do I need?

These are the weights from the syllabus we have. Yours might be a bit different depending on your term and instructor, so feel free to change anything that doesn't match.

AssessmentGrade %Weight %
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You need 80.0% across the remaining 100% to finish at 80%.

What was the average?

Not reported

No student has contributed a result for this offering yet.

How is it graded?

45% final

From the 2025 syllabus. 4 graded components.

How confident is this?

Unknown

A small number of terms, so read it as a range.

From the calendar

Official source · Faculty of Arts & Science

The functional relevance of neurotransmitters, with particular emphasis on their role in mediating behaviour.

Exclusions
PCL200H1PCL476H1PSYC62H3
Contact hours
36 lecture
Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

One option from each line

PSY201H1, ECO220Y1, EEB225H1, GGR270H1, IRW220H1, POL222H1, SOC202H1, STA220H1, STA238H1, STA248H1, STA288H1, ECO220Y5, PSY201H5, STA215H5, STA220H5, PSYA06H1, PSYB07H3, STAB22H3, STAB23H3, or STAB57H3

PSY260H1, PSYB38H3 and PSY290H1, PSY290H5, PSYB64H3, HMB200H1, or PSL300H1

Where the marks come from

2025 syllabus
Final Exam · 45%Term Test · 35%Assignment · 10%Articles Quiz · 10%

45% of the grade is decided in the final alone. Steady coursework cannot carry this course on its own.

Extracted from a published 2025 syllabus by deterministic parser. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.

What we don’t have yet

A course averageNo term has been reported for this offering. Averages come from students who contribute their own results, and nobody has yet.
Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.
Archive coveragePyko holds no past paper for this course. We do not host or distribute course files in any case; the archive is what lets these pages describe how a course is assessed.

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Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hoursFaculty of Arts & Science2026-07-25public fact
Assessment weightingCourse syllabus, 20252026-07-25summary permitted

Page last verified 2026-07-25. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.

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