PSY 324- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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A field of study that relates behaviour to bodily processes, especially the brain. Primary focus on the central nervous system. Main goal of study is to understand behaviour and experience in terms of their biological substrates. Also known as behavioural neuroscience, psychobiology, physiological psychology, biopsychology. Physiological: relates a behavior to the activity of the brain and other organs. Ontogenetic: describes the development of a structure or behavior. Evolutionary: reconstructs evolutionary history of a behavior or structure. Functional: describes why a structure or behavior evolved as it did. How the brain produces behaviour is a major unanswered scientific question. The brain is the most complex organ on earth. Understanding the brain can help us understand and treat/cure numerous disorders. We only use 10% of our brains sheeptk. Some human nerve cells are 3 feet long pl_nerve 050902073203. Once our brains have developed, we cannot grow new neurons.
