PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Information Superhighway, Midbrain, Cerebellum
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Social life, means we are more likely to survive. Transitions from hunter gatherer to agriculturist to industrialist to information based societies. One culture: most aggressive me have more children. Other culture: least aggressive men have highest reproductive success: all about culture, one group stands down between fights, social activity in breaks, most aggressive warriors get reproductive success, other groups fight all the time, aggressive men die. A rich interdisciplinary field of study that combines the methods and theories of psychology with biology, physiology, biochemistry, the neurosciences, and related fields . Biology and behavior as a two way street: biology effects behavior, but behavior also effects the biology. Biological psychology advances when new technology becomes available: functional mri. Can turn off different parts of the brain. Activate and deactivate different parts of the brain. Central and peripheral nervous system: central: brain and the spinal cord. Central nervous system has different coatings: peripheral: other nerves, outside protection of bones.
