PSY 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychophysics, Asteroid Family, Scientific Revolution

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Patrick Davidson

Document Summary

Why study the brain: brain: physical object, living tissue, body organ, behaviour: action, momentarily observable but fleeting. 3 links between brain and behavior: how brain produces behavior, brain=most complex organ on earth, behavioural disorders can be treated with more understanding of the brain. History of understanding the brain: greeks. Proposed idea of mind that was divided into three componenets, sensory, memory and reasoning. Socreates and plato created dualism which is the idea that the mind and body are separate. Cns needs ongoing sensory stimulation from its environment and from its own body. Brain communicates by producing movement and observing other movement. Locked in syndrome: condition in which a patient is aware and awake but cannot move or communicate verbally because of complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles except the eyes. Hypocrates believed: believed all bodily fluids meant something. What is behavior: iranaus eibl-eibesfeildt- (cid:862)(cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior (cid:272)o(cid:374)sists of patter(cid:374)s i(cid:374) ti(cid:373)e(cid:863)