PSYC 2410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Brain Death, Deoxyribose, Comparative Psychology
10 Mar 2019
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The scienti c study of the biology of behaviour (dewsbury, 1991). A biological approach to the study of behaviour. Behaviours are due to biological mechanisms in your brain. Pure/basic research: motivated mainly by the desire to nd out how things work - building blocks of knowledge. Applied research: tries to answer a speci c problem with direct bene t to humans. Uses the building blocks provided by pure research. Studies of biopsych proceed along two lines of reserach: animal studies and human studies. Di erences between species (the organization of the cells and neuro transmitters) are more quantitative than qualitative; they are closely intertwined and provide highly complimentary information. You can compare across species to better prove that your thesis is, in fact, valid and applicable to all brains. Brain-behaviour relationships are simpler in animals; this can lead to a more direct analysis. Fewer ethical restrictions when testing on animals.
