[PSYCO275] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (34 pages long!)

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO275
• Professor: Clayton Dickson

Document Summary

Is organ of behaviour: concerns with neuroscience of behaviour. Input stimulus cognition or output response (sensory) mind (brain) (motor) Different types of neuroscience fields: neuroanatomy. Relationship between brain and behaviour from an evolutionary perspective: developmental neurobiology. Nervous system"s physiological and anatomical development: neurochemistry. Effect of drugs on nervous system: neuroendocrinology. Influence on hormones on nervous system: neuropathology. But the most important . : behavioural neuroscience and physiological psychology is the ultimate. Basically how the brain gives rise to behaviour. Why is psychology extremely relevant to neuroscience: psychology studies behaviour, while neuroscience studies the nervous system. Since behaviour is controlled by the nervous system, physiological psychology becomes very important: the nervous system also has the brain, the main organ of behaviour/mind (psychology!!) Functions of the brain: controls behaviour. Integrate sensory input; select sensible motor output: controls homeostatic (internal) states, function of operation (uniqueness) Molecules -> cells -> networks -> brain -> behaviour.