PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes -Fourth Ventricle, Visual Impairment, Growth Factor
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Psychology- the study of behavior, attempt to describe, explain and predict. Neuropsychology- attempt to describe, explain, predict and change behavior while relating it to the brain. Clinical neuropsychology- concerned with psychological assessment, management and rehabilitation of neurological disease or injury. Experimental psychology- how human behavior arises from brain activity how can they be explain with damage to certain brain components. Cardiac/ cardio centric thesis- (empedoses) the heart was the source of human behavior cognitive and emotional function. Aristotle also agreed that the heart was the source of though brain cooled the blood (incorrect blood cools brain, heart is not the source of behavior) Cephalocentric hypothesis/ brain hypothesis- belief that the heart controlled behavior- (galen believed the ventricles and cpf cognition) corrected by. Trephination- putting a hole in the skull to relieve any pain/disease. Rene descartes- theory concluded that reflexive behavior is caused by animal spirits through the valvules within nervous tissue filaments,
