PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ventral Root Of Spinal Nerve, Voluntary Action, Frontal Lobe
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Started with flourens and lashley where they damaged animal brains up to. 90% and animals could still do basic functions and this was than generalized to hmans and popularized through famous individuals. Psychology study of behavior, and attempt to describe them explain and predict, or even change behavior. Neuropsychology study of relation between behavior and brain activity. Clinical neuropsychology concerned with psychological assessment, management, and rehabilitation of neurological disease and injury. Experimental neuropsychology how human behavior arises from brain activity, which includes explaining how patterns of behavioural impairments can be explained in terms of disruptions to damaged neural components: also called cognitive neuropsychology or cognitive neuroscience. Gives us info about what is left to discover. Illustrates many instances within discipline in which researchers were wrong about nature of brain-behavior relationships. Believed heart was souroce of human behavior cardiac/cardiocentrichypothesis. Aristotle thought heart was source of thought and sensation.
