The Biological Approach

The Biological Approach

What is the biological approach?

• The biological approach combines psychology and biology to provide physiological explanations for human behaviour.
• Biological pshycology tries to explain how we think, feel and behave in terms of physical factors within the body.

The basic assumptions:

• Everything psychological is at first biological.
• The approach investigates how biological structures and processes within the body impacts on behaviour.
• Much of human behaviour has a physiological cause, which may be biologically determined or enviromentally caused.
• Evolutionary psychologists consider genetic influences in behaviour.
• Psychologists should study the brain,nervous system and other biological systems (for example hormones impacts on the brain).
• The mind lives in the brain.

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