PSYO 2770 Lecture Notes - Elemicin, Mescaline, Mania
27 Feb 2014
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About behaviour observable phenomena, i. e. behaviour per se (action from striated muscles, at least vertebrates) *this would exclude behaviour such as phenomenal communication in hamsters, light pulses in fire flies, colour pulses in squids, flushing in humans, etc. Ancient greek had an interesting way of thinking about the mind: they talked about intellect/cognition and affect/emotion and motivation/regulation. Area of psychology dealing with the biological bases of behaviour, from proximate questions (genetics, biochemistry, physiology, development) to ultimate questions (evolution, adaptive function): it includes many sub- elds, some of which (e. g. , behavioural neuroscience ) are sometimes taken as synonyms. More speci c and de ned area of biological psychology dealing with the relationship between mind and body (including the brain). Physiological psychology, methodologically, tends to be invasive (i. e. , manipulating directly the nervous or endocrine system of animals). The focus is on the central nervous system. Cognitive neuroscience: fundamental (basic) research with both animal models and humans.
