PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Myelin, Multiple Sclerosis, Morphine

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Chapter 2: the biology of mind (pp. The ancient greek philosopher plato correctly located the mind in the spherical head his idea of the perfect form. His student, aristotle, believed the mind was in the heart, which pumps warmth and vitality to the body. In the early 1800s, german physician franz gall proposed that phrenology, studying bumps on the skull, could reveal a person"s mental abilities and character traits biopsychosocial systems. To understand our behavior, we need to study how these biological, psychological, and social systems work and interact. Biological perspective- concerned with the links between biology and behavior. Includes psychologists working in neuroscience, behavior genetics, and evolutionary psychology. These researchers may call themselves behavioral neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, behavior geneticists, physiological psychologists, or biopsychologists. Neuron- a nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system. Dendrites- a neuron"s bushy, branching extensions that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body.