PSY290H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Neuroeconomics, Evolutionary Psychology, Karl Lashley
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Chapter 1 - an introduction to brain and behaviour. Mind - perceptions, emotions, thoughts, self-awareness, and other cognitive processes that govern our behaviour. Case of rat pups who have inattentive mothers. Showed elevated stress responses to stressors that have little effect on normally raised rats. Due to both nature (genes) and nurture (environment) Neuroscience - scientific study of the nervous system. Biological psychology - field that relates behaviour to bodily processes, naturally evolved from those beginnings. The science of the brain and behaviour spans past, present, and future. The role of the brain was uncertain to scholars in antiquity. Thought brain was little more than a cooling system for hot blood from the heart. Ascribed emotion, perception, and thought to functioning of the brain. Proposed that behaviour results from the movement of "animal spirits" from the brain through nerves to the peripheral body. Produced neuroanatomical illustrations of nerves and brain structures. Control of behaviour might resemble workings of a machine.
