Psychology 2220A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Neural Pathway, Unobservable, Urinary Incontinence

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2220A/B
• Professor: online

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In comparison to physics, chemistry, and biology, biopsychology is an infant- a healthy, rapidly growing infant but an infant nonetheless: 1. 2 what is the relation between biopsychology and the other disciplines of. Pure or applied: the human and non-human subjects, mice and rats are most common nonhuman subjects. Cats, dogs and nonhuman primates are also studied: humans have several advantages over other animals as experimental subjects of. Humans are often cheaper: only the highest standards of animal care are accepted, the cost of maintaining an animal laboratory can be prohibitive for all but the most well-funded researchers. They have the brain that we want to study (most important lol): why do then bother using non-human subjects. Nonhuman animals have three advantages over humans as subjects in. Biopsychological research: their brain and behaviour of nonhuman subjects are simpler than those of human subjects. It is possible to conduct research on laboratory animals that is not possible with human subjects.