[PSYC-2656EL] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 54 pages long Study Guide!
29 Mar 2017
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Direct manipulation of the brain through electrodes, drugs. Brain, biology and behaviour and how they interact together. Effects of drugs on the brain and behaviour. Psychological effects of brain damage in humans. Relations between physiological activity (eeg, eye movement, heart rate) and psychological processes. Cognitive neuroscience- the neural bases of cognition. Functional brain imaging is the major method of cognitive neuroscience. Comparing different species to understand evolution, genetics and. What is physiological psychology? adaptiveness of behaviour. i. e rats. Psychology: we want to establish a link between the behaviour and the mind. Physiological psychology: we want to establish a link between the behaviour and the biology of the body, with the mind as the middle man. The four why"s of behaviour science: physiological explanation: Relates the behaviour to the brain and biology of the body. What is happening to the brain, body right now. Describes how a behaviour develops during an organism"s lifetime learning, how did it develop, genetic, lifetime studies.
