PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Percentile Rank, Nocebo, Observational Techniques
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Answers/ notes the science of behavior and mental process biological, cognitive, behavioral, and sociocultural biological perspective and cognitive perspective. A research perspective whose major explanatory focus is how the brain, nervous system, and other physiology mechanisms produce behavior and mental processes. Biological psychologists look for causes within our physiology, our genetics, and human evolution. Biological psychologists also study the involvement of the various parts of the brain and nervous system in our behavior and mental process. The brain is not only essential for vision, but it is also the control center for almost all of our behavior and mental processing. (chapter 2) A research perspective whose major explanatory focus is how mental processes, such as perception, memory, and problem solving, work and impact behavior. Cognitive psychologists study all aspects of cognitive processing from perception to the higher-level processes, such as problem solving and reasoning.
