{"id":7590,"date":"2019-12-13T10:33:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/?page_id=7590"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:26:33","slug":"preparation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/academics\/focus-area\/neuropsychology\/preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading entry-title\">Neuropsychology<\/h1>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"NP\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-np\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-7623\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-7623\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/academics\/focus-area\/neuropsychology\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-7620\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-7620\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/academics\/focus-area\/neuropsychology\/goals\/\">Goals<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-7617\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-7617\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/academics\/focus-area\/neuropsychology\/career-tracks\/\">Career Tracks<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-7614\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-7614\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/academics\/focus-area\/neuropsychology\/preparation\/\">Preparation<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-7611\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-7611\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/academics\/focus-area\/neuropsychology\/curriculum\/\">Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-7608\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-7608\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/academics\/focus-area\/neuropsychology\/faculty\/\">Faculty<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-14522\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-14522\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/academics\/focus-area\/neuropsychology\/resources\/\">Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Preparation<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The typical doctoral student who focuses in neuropsychology is be expected to have the following courses prior to graduate school: Physiological Psychology, Psychometrics, and Statistics and Research Methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also is helpful for students to have background in some or all of the following topics through previous or concurrent coursework: Animal Physiology, Biology, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Exceptionalities, Functional Neuroanatomy, Sensation and Perception, and Psychopathology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, students who focus in neuropsychology are expected to have several research and applied experiences prior to and subsequent to enrolling in a graduate program. These could include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Collaborating on a research publication<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Honors or other student-directed research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Participation in practicum or internship experiences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Presenting papers at conferences<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Working on a research grant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Working with faculty on their research<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Other related research and applied involvement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuropsychology Preparation The typical doctoral student who focuses in neuropsychology is be expected to have the following courses prior to graduate school: Physiological Psychology, Psychometrics, and Statistics and Research Methods. It also is helpful for students to have background in some or all of the following topics through previous or concurrent coursework: Animal Physiology, Biology, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2097,"featured_media":0,"parent":967,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-7590","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2097"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14508,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7590\/revisions\/14508"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}