PSYC 2030 Lecture 8: PSYC 2030 Lecture 8 Notes
29 May 2018
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PSYC 2030 Lecture 8 Notes
Introduction
Neural and Hormonal Systems Biology, Behavior, and Mind
• If surgeons transplanted all your organs below your neck, and even your skin and limbs,
you would (Yes?) still be you.
• An acquaintance received a new heart from a woman who, in a rare operation, received
a matched heart-lung transplant.
• Whe the to chaced to eet i their hospital ard, she itroduced herself: I thik
you hae y heart.
• But only her heart
• She, she assumed, still resided inside her skull.
• We rightly presume that our brain enables our mind.
• Ideed, o priciple is ore cetral to today’s psychology, tha this
• Everything psychological is simultaneously biological. In this book we start small and
build from the bottom up
• From nerve cells up to the brain, and to the environmental influences that interact with
our biology in later chapters.
• We will also work from the top down, as we consider how our thinking and emotions
influence our brain and our health.
• Throughout this book you will find examples of this interplay.
• In the next three modules, we start small and build from the bottom up—from nerve
cells up to the brain.
• Other modules in the text explore environmental influences, where we will work from
the top down to consider how our thinking and emotions influence our brain and our
health.
• Why are psychologists concerned with human biology?
• Your every idea, every mood, every urge is a biological happening.
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