PSY 1101 : PSY1101.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Everything we do, every idea, every mood is a biological happening. Without the body, we would be nothing at all. People often think of psychology and biology as two different streams, but it is very important to think of them as the same thing, as psychology is a biological science. The biology of the mind has come very far in the last few centuries. In the early 1800"s, phrenology, the study of bumps on the skull was proposed. Although this idea proved incorrect, it led the way for. Localization of function, the idea that different areas of the brain are associated with different functions. This allows researchers to study on relatively simple organisms such as squids or sea slugs to find out how our own brain operates. Though the human brain is much more complex than the brains of these simple organisms, they all follow the same principles.