PSYC 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paul Broca, Genetic Predisposition, Karl Lashley
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Chapter 1: an introduciton to brain & behavior: neuroscience: the scientific study of the nervous system, philosophers: 1st scholars to study relationships between brain & behavior, biological psychology: the field that relates behavior to bodily processes. Mental capacities are routed in the heart : believed brain cooled the heart. Hippocrates: related emotion, perception & thought to the functioning of the brain treated head injuries, proposed (cid:271)ehavior results fro(cid:373) the (cid:373)ove(cid:373)e(cid:374)t of (cid:862)a(cid:374)i(cid:373)al spirits(cid:863) Galen: dualism: notion that the mind has an immaterial aspect that is distinct from the material body/brain, rene descartes. Franz gall: phrenology: belief that specific behaviors, feelings, & personality traits were controlled by corresponding specific regions of the brain where there were bumps. Eqytians: discarded brains, but kept liver, lungs, stomach, intestines & hearts of those mummified. N sequence of genes: genome: copy of all genes, gene expression: turning on/off of specific genes, alters expression of gene, example:
