PSYB65H3 Chapter : PSYB65 Ch 1
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Neuropsychology, the study of the relation btwn bhvr and the activity of the brain. > attempts to describe, explain, predict, and change bhvr. 2 main types of neuropsychology: (a) clinical neuropsychology, concerned w/ psychological assessment, management, and rehabilitation of neurological disease and injury (b) experimental neuropsychology/cognitive neuropsychology/cognitive neuroscience, focuses on how human bhvr arises f/ brain activity. E. g. explaining how patterns of bhvral impairments can be explained in terms of disruptions to the damaged neural components. Cardiac/cardiocentric hypothesis, the belief that the <3 was the source of human bhvr (cognitive and emotional function) Cephalocentric/brain hypothesis, the belief that the brain is the center for bhvr. Trephination, surgically opening the skull as a means of treatment, although this form of treatment was practiced in ancient times, it still has a following today. Descartes suggested the reflexive theory of the control of bhvr in which he described the flow of animal spirits through valvules within nervous tissue filaments [the mind- body interaction]
