PSY352H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Morris Water Navigation Task, Gene Knockout, Ethology
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Behaviour is the subject"s movement in space and time (methodological/psychological definition: i measure learning with morris" water maze no. You"re measuring the performance of the animal in the water maze how quickly the animal was able to find the platform, the distance that the animal was from the platform before they were able to reach it. Cannot measure learning directly: cannot measure complex behaviours such as perception, motor function, and motivation. Behaviour is the output of the brain: everything we do is biologically based through the cns. Even the most complex behavioural phenomena are the result of the functioning of the nervous system. Psychology deals with numerous aspects of animal and human behaviour; is one way in which you can analyze brain function. Psychology traditionally belonged to social sciences and sometimes treated the brain as a black box . Nowadays the discipline is regarded as part of natural sciences and psychology uses numerous concepts and methods of biology.
