PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Twin Study, Peroxidase, Stellar Magnetic Field
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We have sophisticated technology to see activation in the brain. Technology helps figure out if there is technology in a region associated with a particular function. Biological psychology is a really complicated field: involves biochemistry, physics, math draws on a variety of disciplines. We want to be able to biopsychology to look at behaviour from a lot of different perspective. Behaviour is not just see, movement, verbal responses, but also observe activity in the brain through a scanner. What biological tissue helps us to attend, solve problems, exhibit complex behviour, and where is it located: somewhere in the body, there is a tissue associated with behaviour. If someone was acting abnormally (behaving outside of societal norms), brain surgery would occur: drilling into the skull and having the bad spirit escape. Suggests that behaviour has some sort of code and ethic where something is not right. Ancient treatment: stone age: trephining (drilling a hole in a skull)
