PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Cognitive Neuroscience, Comparative Psychology, Physiological Psychology

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Psychologists use investigation to find connectors between effect and cause. Casual events - an event that causes another to occur. Different organism studies to understand adaptive and functional significance of behaviours and relation to evolution. Study of effect of environment on behaviour. Understanding cognition by studying how brain works. Study of mental processes as a function of age and experience. Tries to categorize and understand the individual differences in patterns of behaviour and categorize it. Branch that shows the adaptative advantages that certain behaviours provided during the evolution of a species. Investigation and treatment of abnormal behaviour and psych disorders www. notesolution. com. First belief that animals and all moving objects possess spirits providing their motive force. Descarte"s idea that there is mind, and matter. Came the idea of reflex, reactions without the participation of mind. Descartes explained about the nervous system as a model.

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