Physiological Psychology Overview
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- Created on: 25-03-13 16:03
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- Physiological Psychology
- Assumption
- beh. can be explained through physiological workings of body and brain
- Studies
- Maguire et al.
- taxi drivers, non taxi drivers
- hippocampi structural mass
- taxi drivers, non taxi drivers
- Dement and Kleitman
- REM sleep, eye movement, dreams
- Sperry
- split brain patients
- function of diff. sides of brain
- split brain patients
- Maguire et al.
- Strengths
- Provided much evidence for chemical basis of beh.
- Useful
- Clinicians able to treat mental disorders with chemicals or surgery
- Weaknesses
- Reductionist
- Doesn't take whole person into account
- Findings may not show cause and effect
- Reductionist
- Assumption
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