PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lobotomy, Ecological Niche, Brain Size
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Five viewpoints explore the biology of behaviour. What is biological psychology? bases of psychological processes and behaviour. Biological psychology, or behavioural neuroscience, is the study of biological. Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system. (a broad, umbrella term. ) Think of biological psychology as the center of a circle, and it branches out to things like cognitive neuroscience, health psychology, neural imaging which leads out to things like cognitive science, psychiatry, and anatomy check out lecture slides. Neurons, or nerve cells, are the basic unit of the nervous system; specialized for communication; ~100-150 billion. Axons, and dendrites are specialized extensions of neurons that send and receive information, respectively, from neurons. Synapses are areas where billions of neurons make contacts w/ each. To increase the surface other; electrical, chemical; number in the trillions. area, the number of cells. Flatten out the brain, and you get a meter2. Behaviour can be described in terms of acts", results, processes (i. e. , the.
