PS263 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Quasi, Coolidge Effect, Behavioral Neuroscience
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The human brain is an amazingly intricate netword of neurons (cells that receive and transmit electrochemical signals) Major themes of this book: think creatively about biopsychology thinking in productive, unconventional ways, clinical implications. Pertaining to illness or treatment: the evolutionary perspective. Important compnenet is the comparative approach, trying to understand biological phenomena by comparing them in different species: neuroplasticity. Recent research has demonstrated that the human adult brain is a plastic (changeable) organ that continually grows and changes in response to an individual"s genes and experiences. Biopsychology is the scientific study of the biology of behaviour: also referred to as behavioural neuroscience, behavioural biology, psychobiology. D. o. hebb, played a large role in the founding of biopsychology: biopsychology is very much in its infancy, meaning that in studying the subject, you are studying current research. Section 1. 3: what types of research characterize the biopsychology approach.
