PSYC 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Thiamine, Urinary Incontinence, Retina
10 Jul 2016
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Biopsychology: scientific study of the biology of behaviour. Integrative discipline: bio psychologists draw together knowledge from the other neuroscientific disciplines and apply it to the study of behaviour. Psychobiology, behavioural biology or behavioural neuroscience: study of overt behaviour and internal processes such as learning, memory, motivation, perception and emotion. History of biopsych: the organization of behaviour d. o. Key factor in biopsych"s development into a major neuroscientific discipline. Proposed that psychological phenomena might be produced by brain activity. Helped discredit the notion that psychological functions were too complex to be derived from physiological activities. Neurophysiology: functions and activities of the nervous system. Neuropharmacology: effects of drugs on neural activity. Neuroendocrinology: interactions between the nervous system and the endocrine system. Neurons: cells that receive and transmit electrochemical signals. Can follow instructions and have a human brain. Simpler brains make it more likely to reveal brain-behaviour interactions. Insights from comparative approach; making comparisons with other species.
