[PSY 260] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (74 pages long!)
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Neuroscience: is the study of the nervous system. Biological psychology: study of the biological bases of psychological processes and behavior. Early man and the brain: trephination: creating a hole in the skull to release pressure or perhaps to let out the bad spirits . History ancient cultures: china, persia, egypt science was an extension of religion, spirits and/or gods in uenced behavior through the possession of the body in of the body, greek culture. It was believed that the source of the human consciousness" was the heart because the heart responds to what you are thinking. Some debate though: aristotle believed heart, while plato believed brain: roman culture. Galen: known for dissection of animals, first to write about nerves: identi ed motor and sensory nerves, treated gladiators: experience with brain injury led him to believe that their are connections between the brain and the body.
