PSYC 280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-6: Behavioral Neuroscience, Neuron, Paul Broca
17 Feb 2016
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Goal to understand the biology underlying behaviour and experience. The continuity of behaviour and biological processes among species b/c of. Must be able to describe what we want to study. Description must be precise, reveal the essential features of the behaviour, Interaction between the brain and behaviour is reciprocal the brain controls behaviour, while behaviour alters the brain structure. Neuron: aka nerve cell, the basic unit of the nervous system. Biological psychology: aka behavioural neuroscience: the study of the biological bases of psychological processes and behaviour. E. g. studying the development of reproductive capacity and of differences ancestry. The species-specific differences in behaviour and biology that have. Study behaviour by studying how an individual"s present body works. Attempts of apply knowledge also benefits basic research. Change in the body is the dependent variable. 3rd unknown factor might be causing both variables. Useful to determine if there is a link between the two variables (directly or.
