PSYC 271 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Behavioral Neuroscience, Direct Manipulation Interface, Neuroendocrinology
19 Nov 2012
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Overcome the restrictive effects of conventional thinking and taken new. Clinical implications - much of what biopsychologists learn about functioning of the normal brain comes from studying the diseased or damaged brain. Why animals behave the way they do. Examine mental pressures that likely led to the evolution of our brain and behaviour. Important component is the comparative approach (trying to understand biological phenomena by comparing them in different species) The ultimate function of the nervous system is behaviour. How does the brain let us do things. Study how the brain and the rest of the nervous system determine what we perceive, feel, think, say, and do. This may be the ultimate challenge for the human brain does our brain have the capacity to understand something as complex as itself. There will never be a true unified definition of the brain. The organization of behaviour in 1949 by d. o. Hebb played a key role in its emergence.
