Biopsychology is a branch of psychology that analyzes how the brain and neurotransmitters influence our behaviors, thoughts and feelings. This field can be thought of as a combination of basic psychology and neuroscience.
DIVISIONS:
- Physiological Psychology
- Using animals in relation to human brain
- Psychopharmacology
- Deals with the usage of drugs, how does it affect the brain.
- Neurophysiology
- Empirical research on the relation between brain and human cognitive, emotional, and behavioral function, Case of Phineas Gage.
- Psychophysiology
- Includes studies about brain tissues and brain damage
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Study of biological substrates underlying cognition with a specific focus on the neural substrates of mental processes.
- Comparative Psychology
- Animal behaviours and drives, and its evolution.
- Animal behaviours and drives, and its evolution.
Converging operations - the use of several research methods to solve a single problem so that the strengths of one method balance out the weaknesses of the others
The Importance of Converging Operations In the Study of Biopsychology
Scientific Inference - reasonable conclusions or possible hypotheses drawn from a small sampling of data, based on observations. Using humans and non-humans subjects thru advertising.
- Experiment (control environment)
- Quasi-Experiment (naturalistic setup)
- Case Study (unique cases)
- Pure Research - Seek of learning, just wanna know.
- Applied Research - For practical purposes.
- Physiological - BRAIN
- Psychological - MIND
- Nature vs. Nurture (????)
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