PSYC 271 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Urinary Incontinence, Ethology, Lobotomy
2 Apr 2015
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What is consciousness: clinical implications; repair the human condition: identity early diseases, monitor, repair diseases, learn more about the things that go wrong in the brain. This led to the development of experimental physiology, whereby theories of how the brain, nerves, and muscles might work together were actually tested: one of the most important early scientists in the physiology of behavior was. Johannes muller (19th century) and his doctrine of specific nerve energies, which states that although all nerves carry the same basic message (an electrical impulse), we perceive the messages of different nerves in different ways. localization of function. What types of research characterize the bio-psychological approach: biopsycholgoical research can take the form of human and non human subjects, experiments or non experiments, and it can be either pure or applied. Independent variable: the difference between the condition: dependent variable: the variable that is measured by the researcher to assess the effect of the independent variable.
