PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Franz Nissl, Formaldehyde, Toothpaste
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Psychology: the study of behavior, an attempt to describe, explain and predict behavior and somtimes how to change behaviour. Neuropsychology: is the study of the relation btwn behavior and the activity of the brain; a specialty within the larger field of pychology; attempt to describe, explain, predict, and change behavior. 2 main types of neuropychologists: clinical neuropsychologists (branch concerned with psychological assessment, management and rehabilitation of neurological disease and injury); experimental neropychology/cognitive neuropsychology/cognitive neuroscience( branch that focuses on how human behaviour arises from brain activity) Heart, mind and brain: the early history of neuropsychology. History of discipline important because shows development and what is left to discover. History also shows the mistakes made in the past and wrong understandings. Empedocles: philosopher who believed all matter was composed of fire, air, water and earth; believed that the heart was the source of human behavior-cardio-centric hypothesis.
