PSY4111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Brain Damage, Neuron
24 Jul 2018
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Many interventions are not particularly effective, so a focus on public health is definitely necessary. Targeting one person at a time in inefficient. To start minimise the barriers to healthy behaviours, eg; more space for bike riders. Economic factors people of low socioeconomic position are aware of health issues, but have more daily stress and thus more unhealthy behaviours. To change raise the cost of unhealthy behaviours, place advertising bans, self-efficacy information to produce personal change. Definition - very hard to define, from awake and asleep to conscious of change, conscious of colour and so on. The astonishing hypothesis you are your brain (monism), nothing more than a collection of nerve cell activities. Dualism descartes mind and body are separate, we think of us as different to our bodies. Scientifically this is wrong; the mind is what the brain does! It is unscientific, suggests its all out in the ether which is not based on evidence.
