What is Biopsychology?
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- Created on: 11-04-19 11:25
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- What is biopsychology?
- Branches
- Psychopharmacology: Manipulating neural activity with drugs
- Physiological Psychology: Manipulating neural mechanisms through NS, surgical/electrical methods (lab)
- Neuropsychology: Uses non-experimetns to study psych effect on brain damage in humans
- Cognitive Psychology: Neural bases of cognitive processes (eg fMRI)
- Psychophysiology: Recording physiological responses to behaviour
- Comparative Psychology: Comparing species' behaviour to understand evolutionary psych & behavioural genetics
- Diversity of Research
- Humans vs non-humans
- Animals: 1. Simpler so can understand fundamentals, 2. less ethical constraints, 3. use comparative approach (eg function of cortex vs without)
- Humans: 1. Follow instructions, 2. subjectivetly report experience, 3. cheaper & 4. can look at human brain
- Experiments vs non-experiments
- Experiment: 1. Establish cause & effect, 2. Paradoxically very simple
- Quasi: 1. Can't always control variables, 2. use real situations. Case studies: 1. In-depth research but 2. lacks generalisability
- Pure vs applied research
- Pure: Motivated by researcher, wants new knowledge
- Applied: Motivated by direct benefit to humans
- Humans vs non-humans
- Critical thinking: spotting weaknesses of ideas/evidence
- Converging operations: Using multiple approaches to focus on one problem
- Eg Jimmie G & Korsakoff - alcoholics & deficit in thiamine
- Neuroscience: = study of nervous system - biopsych is bridge betwwen neuroscience and psychology
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