PSYC 280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Pineal Gland, Behavioral Neuroscience, World Health Organization

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 280
• Professor: Neil Braganza

Document Summary

The field of biological psychology involves many people working in a wide variety of areas of specialization. A few of the types of professionals who participate in research in biological psychology are psychologists, biologists, physiologists, engineers, neurologists, and psychiatrists. The study of the brain is called neuroscience, and biopsychology is also known as behavioral neuroscience. The basic goal of biological psychology is to explain behavior in terms of physiological processes, particularly those of the nervous system. The findings of basic research in biological psychology may be applied to improving the lives of both humans and animals. List the five viewpoints of biological psychology using one word for each. Description (hint: this viewpoint asks, what are the structural and functional features of the behavior? ) Evolution (hint: this viewpoint asks, how did patterns of behavior come to be so different in some species and so similar in others? )