Bio and Neuro psychology

Question 1

What is biological psychology?

Answer 1

study of physiological, evolutionary and developmental mechanisms of behavior and experience

Question 2

What is the mind body problem? And what are the main two beliefs?

Answer 2

Mind body problem: how conscious mind and physical body interact

Monism: Mind and body are the same

Dualism: Mind and body are two different entities

Question 3

What are the 4 types of explanations used in biological psychology?

Answer 3

1. Physiological
   
   • behavior to the activity of the brain and other organs
2. Ontogenetic (gr. origin)
   
   • How something develops
3. Evolutionary
   
   • evolutionary history of a structure or behavior
4. Functional explanation
   
   • Why a structure or behavior evolved as it did