Understanding Neuropsychology

Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology concerned with how the brain and nervous system influence cognition and behavior.

Understanding the relationship between the brain and behavior.

Neuropsychology seeks to understand the mechanisms responsible for human thinking, learning, and emotion, how these mechanisms operate, and the effects of changes in brain states on behavior.

<p>In various ways, but the central theme is the need to understand the human brain to understand human behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Clinical neuropsychology deals with brain-injured patients, while experimental neuropsychology studies normal subjects.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A psychology without reference to physiology cannot be complete.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Intelligence, personality, and sensory-motor functions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Experimental neuropsychology works with normal subjects with intact brains, while clinical neuropsychology deals with brain-injured patients.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Clinical neuropsychology and experimental neuropsychology</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Conceptual definitions of behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By having subjects undertake performance tasks while recording accuracy or speed of response.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A variety of techniques</p> Signup and view all the answers