PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neuroplasticity, Ice Cream, Operationalization
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Everything that they (psychologists) are studying in psychology is a biological pattern. There is a notion that the activities of the mind and the activities of the mind are different. Your brain is an incredibly intricate network of neurons, like a culture is a network of people. Those neurons communicate and form larger patterns and structures, much like our culture communicates and forms institutions and systems of meaning. As neurons communicate, an association begins to form between them (much like a relationship forms between two people when they talk) The more they communicate, the stronger the association gets, until it becomes virtually automatic and instantaneous (like how we build relationships and share private jokes) These neural conversations are not independent; i like pizza, how are you, i hate you : our neural conversations are interconnected, they reflect our body"s adaptation to the environment.
