week 1 Flashcards
what is biological bases of behaviour
it is the study of how structure and actions of the brain and body produce behaviour and experiences
What disciplines does it spanned
Neuroscience
psychology
mathematics
computer science
What are the three approaches
somatic intervention
Behavioural intervention
correlation
What is somatic intervention
manipulate the brain to change behaviour
What is behavioural intervention
manipulate behaviour to change the brain
what is correlation
brain and body co-vary
what is level of analysis
explaining brain-behaviour relationship
What are the levels of analysis there is 8
social level
organ level
neural level
brain region level
circuit level
cellular level
synaptic level
molecular level
what is the meaning of structure
neuroanatomy
What is the meaning of function
role in behaviour
What did the ancient Egyptian think about the brain
brain thrown away
heart, liver, lungs preserved
What did Ancient Greece think
Aristotle= brain is cooling unit for the blood
Galen’s= gladiators’ head injuries effected behaviour
What did 17th centaury think
Descartes= dualism, mind and body meet in the pineal gland
what did 20th centaury think
Donald O. Hebb= behaviour and neural functions are perfectly correlated one is completely caused by the other
what did 19th centaury think
Phrenology
William James= principles of psychology: consciousness and human experience are properties of the nervous system
