Chapter 1 - Biopsychology

Brain and Cognition

Biopsychology

Biological approach to the study of psychology

Neuroanatomy

Study of the structure of the nervous system

Neurochemistry

Study of the chemical bases of neural activity

Neuroendocrinology

Study of interaction between the nervous system and the endocrine system.

Neuropathology

Study of the nervous system disorders

Neuropharmacology

Study of the effects of drugs on neural activity

Neurophysiology

Study of the functions and activities of the nervous system

Physiological psychology

Division of biopsychology that studies the neural mechanisms of behaviour through direct manipulation and recoding of the brain in controlled experiments

Psychopharmacology

Manipulation of neural activity with drugs

Psychophysiology

Studies the relation between physiological activity and psychological processes in human subjects

Cognitive neuroscience

Study of the neural bases of cognition

Comparative psychology

The division of biopsychology that deals generally with the biology of behaviour, rather than specifically with the neural mechanisms of behaviour.

Neurospychology

Concerns how a person’s cognition and behaviour are related to the nervous system.

Quasi experiments

Studies of groups of people that have been exposed to a certain condition in the real world.

Coolidge effect

Males are unable to repeatedly copulate with one partner, thus they go to another

Converging operations

Different approaches where the strengths of one approach compensated for the weaknesses of another

Morgan’s canon

Behaviour should not be explained in difficult psychological terms, but in simple ones