PSYC 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bowerbird, Cell Nucleus, Bipedalism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 355
• Professor: Sheri Fabian

Document Summary

Axons produce electrical impulses that travel hundreds of miles per hour. What is biological psychology: biological psychology: also called behavioural neuroscience as neuroscience is the study of the nervous system and the brain. The study of biological bases of psychological processes and behaviour. Field that relates behaviour to bodily processes, especially the workings of the brains. Research can be applied to human problems: biological psychology is also dedicated to improving the human condition, attempts to apply knowledge also benefit basic research. Three approaches relate brain and behaviour: biological psychologists use three approaches to understand the relationship between brain and behaviour: somatic intervention, behavioural intervention, and correlation. In the most common approach, somatic intervention, we alter a structure or function of the brain or body to see how this alteration changes behaviour. Here the somatic intervention is the independent variable and the behavioural effect is the dependent variable: the approach opposite to somatic intervention is psychological or behavioural intervention.