PSY290H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Critical Thinking, Euroscience, Direct Manipulation Interface
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The human brain is an intricate network of neurons: neurons: cells that receive and transmit electrochemical signals. Neuroscience: the scientific study of the nervous system. Biopsychology: the scientific study of the biology of behaviour, also known as physiology, behavioural biology, behavioural neuroscience. Did not develop into a major neuroscientific discipline until the 20th century: publishing of the organization of behaviour by d. o. Hebb: first comprehensive theory of how complex psychological phenomena like perceptions and emotions might be produced by brain activity. Very young discipline compared to chemistry and etc. 1. 2 what is the relation b/w biopsych and other. I: neuroscientists who bring to their research a knowledge of behaviour and methods of behavioural research, draw together knowledge from other neuroscientific disciplines and apply it to the study of behaviour. Rats most common nonhuman subjects: mice, cats, and dogs and primates are also widely studied. 1. 2. 1 experiments: method used to study causation (find out what causes what)
