PSYC 2030 Lecture 10: PSYC 2030 Lecture 10 Notes
29 May 2018
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PSYC 2030 Lecture 10 Notes
Introduction
Psychological Events
• By studying the links between biological activity and psychological events
• Those working from the biological perspective are announcing discoveries about the
interplay of our biology and our behavior and mind at an exhilarating pace.
• Within little more than the past century, researchers seeking to understand the biology
of the mind have discovered
• Aog the ody’s ells are erve ells that odut eletriity ad talk to oe aother
by sending chemical messages across a tiny gap that separates them.
• Specific brain systems serve specific functions (though not the functions Gall supposed).
• We integrate information processed in these different brain systems to construct our
experience of sights and sounds, meanings and memories, pain and passion.
• Our adaptive brain is wired by our experience.
• We have also realized that we are each a system composed of subsystems that are in
turn composed of even smaller subsystems.
• Tiny cells organize to form body organs.
• These organs form larger systems for digestion, circulation, and information processing.
• And those systems are part of an even larger system
• The individual, who in turn is a part of a family, culture, and community
• Thus, we are bio psychosocial systems.
• To understand our behavior, we need to study how these biological, psychological, and
social systems work and interact.
• What do phreology ad psyhology’s iologial perspetive have i oo?
• ANSWER: They share a focus on the links between the brain and behavior.
• Phrenology faded because it had no scientific basis—skull ups do’t reveal etal
traits and abilities.
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