PS263 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Behavioral Neuroscience, Ethology, Physiological Psychology
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Psychology: the study of human behaviour: common analogy: brain vs computer very flawed, an interaction with siri and a human is not considered psychology. We can reduce our behaviour to the behaviour of cells. The study of the biological processes by which the body (brain) generates and controls behaviour: what biological processes influence psychology, the biology behind psychology. Behaviour is generated by the nervous system. The mind is embodied in/by the brain. Neurons are too small and too fast to see. Average firing cycle of a neuron is one millisecond. There are 80-100 billion neurons in an average human brain. We"(cid:396)e usi(cid:374)g the(cid:373) (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:396)e(cid:373)o(cid:448)e (cid:374)eu(cid:396)o(cid:374)s f(cid:396)o(cid:373) the (cid:271)(cid:396)ai(cid:374) to stud(cid:455) the(cid:373) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause: they are in a network: taking out 1 neuron disrupts a network of neurons. Physiological psychology: manipulating and recording of the brain, almost entirely on non-human animal.
