[PSYC 271] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (129 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 271
• Professor: Amanda Maracle

Document Summary

Week one introduction, biopsychology, neuroscience & research. Definition: the branch of psychology concerned with its biological & physiological aspects. Translation: the study of the relationship between the brain & the rest of the nervous system as a determinant of behaviour. Biops(cid:455)(cid:272)holog(cid:455) (cid:449)as (cid:271)or(cid:374) out of do(cid:374)ald he(cid:271)(cid:271)"s (cid:271)ook. Hebb is considered to be the father of neurophysiology, & his theories provided the groundwork for de(cid:448)"t of (cid:373)oder(cid:374) artifi(cid:272)ial (cid:374)eural (cid:374)et(cid:449)orks. Learn how to perform a task, problem solve, remember & respond to things, have short term memory, undertake reward response procedures. Units are programmed to function like a neuron. Designed to model the neuroanatomical & neurophysiological properties of the brain. Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system: disciplines of neuroscience: Neuroanatomy: the study of the structure of the nervous system. Neurochemistry: the study of the chemical bases of neural activity. Neuroendocrinology: the study of interactions between the nervous system & the endocrine system.