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DIVISIONS OF BIOPSYCHOLOGY: PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY refers to the method of using controlled experiments to directly manipulate the brain in effort to examine the neural mechanisms of behavior.
Physiological Psychology
PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY takes into consideration the affects drugs have on neural activity and behavior. It examines how drugs influence and manipulate an individual’s brain and conduct.
Psychopharmacology
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY enables practitioners to focus on the ways in which brain damage affects the human psyche.
Neuropsychology
BIOPSYCHOLOGY: This method considers the mechanisms of the nervous system in relation to human cognition or intellectual processes.
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The Biological Approach to Behavior Psychology study of human behavior and mental processes biology study of living organisms and their vital processes _________ PSYCHOLOGY is the study of the physiological, evolutionary, and developmental mechanisms of behavior and experience.
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It holds that we think and act as we do because of certain brain mechanisms, which we evolved because ancient animals with these mechanisms survived and reproduced better than animals with other mechanisms. BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF BEHAVIOR PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION It deals with the machinery of the body—for example, the chemical reactions that enable hormones to influence brain activity and the routes by which brain activity controls muscle contractions.
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Describes how a structure or behavior develops, including the influences of genes, nutrition, experiences, and their interactions. EVOLUTIONARY EXPLANATION reconstructs the evolutionary history of a structure or behavior. The characteristic features of an animal are almost always modifications of something found in ancestral species BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF BEHAVIOR FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION describes why a structure or behavior evolved as it did.
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Within a small, isolated population, a gene can spread by accident through a process called _________ DRIFT.
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The Biological Approach to Behavior Psychology study of human behavior and mental processes biology study of living organisms and their vital processes _________ PSYCHOLOGY is the study of the physiological, evolutionary, and developmental mechanisms of behavior and experience.
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It holds that we think and act as we do because of certain brain mechanisms, which we evolved because ancient animals with these mechanisms survived and reproduced better than animals with other mechanisms.BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF BEHAVIOR PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION It deals with the machinery of the body—for example, the chemical reactions that enable hormones to influence brain activity and the routes by which brain activity controls muscle contractions.
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