[Psychology 2220A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (114 pages long)

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When the doctor would leave again with the mirror he would forget entirely about the incident: he had good sensory motor and cognitive abilities but was frozen in time. Introduction: are we analog creatures or digital ones, perceive our world continuously, brains work in an on-off fashion or a digital one, nervous system works like a computer. What is biopsychology: biopsychology emerged as a discipline in the late 1940s. Other disciplines of neuroscience: neuroanatomy: structure of the nervous system, neurochemistry : chemical bases of neural activity, neuroendocrinology: interactions between the nervous system and the endocrine system. Important for analysis of hormones and their effects on the body: neuropathology: nervous system disorders e. g. alzhei(cid:373)e(cid:396)"s, pa(cid:396)ki(cid:374)so(cid:374)"s, neuropharmacology: effects of drugs on neural activity, neurophysiology: functions and activities of the nervous system. Biopsychological research: human and non-human subjects, experiments and non-experiments, pure and applied research. Experiments and non-experiments: experiments involve the manipulation of variables where you want to see cause and effect relationship.

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