PSY290H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Neuroplasticity, Donald O. Hebb, Paul Broca
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Humans have a long history of using contemporary technology as a metaphor for the mysterious workings of the brain. ^ scholars proposed that behaviour was due to liquid animal spirits jetting around within the body. Neuroscience scientific study of the nervous system. Philosophers first scholars to study the relationships between the brain and behaviour, as philosophy established the scientific method as our best took for finding new knowledge. Behavioural neuroscience, brain and behaviour or psychological psychology. Study of the biological bases of psychological processes and behaviour. Main purpose is to understand the brain structures and functions that respond to experiences and generate behaviour. : modern era of biological psychology is characterized by objective. Short history of psychology experimentation and the use of the scientific method to test hypotheses. Long past of psychology: people"s understanding of the genesis of behaviour was shaped by religious ideas, folk knowledge, and ancient observations about the biology of humans and nonhuman animals.
