Psychology 2221B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Behavioral Neuroscience, Synaptic Pruning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2221B
• Professor: Derek Quinlan

Document Summary

Explain behaviours of animals by their physiology. Thinking creatively about biopsychology: base thinking on the evidence presented, but also think outside the box . Clinical implications: study of diseased or damaged brains leads to new knowledge, new knowledge leads to new treatments. The evolutionary perspective- big* one-way of looking at how we believe the way we are. The scientific study of the biology of behavior (psychology) . Also called psychobiology, behavioral biology, behavioral neuroscience. Biopsychology emerged as a discipline in the late 1940s combination of the two. Back in ancient greece, people knew that they were tied together. Hebb"s work helped discredit the notion that psychological functions were too complex to be derived from physiological activities. Biopsychology utilizes the knowledge and tools of other disciplines of neuroscience. Each discipline studies a different aspect of the nervous system that informs our understanding of what produces and controls behavior, going to have people working with cells.