PSYC 304 Lecture Notes - Winter 2018 Lecture 2 - Skeptical movement, Blue Brain Project, Crash test
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Provide an overview of the historical origins of biopsychology. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of humans and nonhumans as subjects in biopsych research. Describe the three r"s" - providing one example of each. Compare experiments and non-experiments, emphasizing the study of causal effects. Give at least one historical example of what happens when scientific thinking is curtailed for expediency. Stream of consciousness, altered states of consciousness. The mind body is not divided, it exists in the same field . Penfield technique: for epileptic seizures; locally anesthetize patients and probe their brain with electrical stimulator. Brain function is not localized to the same area for every person. If parts of the brain are stimulated in the medial temporal lobe, it solicited forgotten memories. Worked closely with penfield at mcgill and wrote the organization of. Behaviour; 3 postulates: learning depends on strengthening of synaptic weights (power of presynaptic cell to stimulate the postsynaptic cell, cell assemblies: memory/thought.
