[PS263] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 74 pages long Study Guide!
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Neuroscience: is the study of the nervous system: neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neurophysiology, and biopsychology, biopsychology, is the study of the biology of behavior. Can be split into six sub-areas: physiological psychology: the nervous system is directly manipulated, within a controlled laboratory setting, the manipulations that the researchers perform include lesions, stimulation, and recording, a second subdiscipline within biopsychology is psychopharmacology. Paradox that although science is fundamentally observational in nature, it often has as its goal the description or explanation of generally unobservable processes: this is called scientific inference. That is, although we cannot observe the unobservable, we can observe the effects of the unobservable. We can make inferences about what must be the underlying processes at work, that caused these observable effects: main purpose of nervous systems is to produce behaviours of some sort. There are two main kinds of cells in the nervous system: neurons and glia. The cell membrane is active i. e. : it is semi-permeable.
