Biological Approach Psychology

The Biological Approach to psychology focuses on the body, with emphasis on the brain and nervous system. Psychologists attempt to examine our behavior and our mental processes through our physiological reactions to situations in the world around us. One such example is the way your heartbeat increases when you’re scared, our how your palms perspire when you lie. There’s no true way to tell exactly how many biological systems are influenced by our thoughts and feelings, but thanks to advances in neuroscience we keep learning new things in the field of biological psychology. According to King (2017), Neuroscience is defined as the scientific study of the structure, function, development, genetics, and biochemistry of the nervous system. (p.11) Neuroscience focuses on the idea that the brain and nervous system are crucial to learning how emotions, behaviors, and thoughts work. Neuroscientists have strong faith that thoughts and feelings have a tangible foundation within the brain. Electric signals move throughout the cells of the brain, discharging certain chemicals that allow us to behave, feel, and think. Our capacity as humans would be impossible
The biological approach centers itself too much around the ‘nature’ side of the nature versus nurture debate. It claims that behaviors are a result of hormones, genetics, and neurotransmitters. This approach also generates theories about disorders and makes them generalized to apply to everyone. It neglects to take into account the idea that every human is special and unique. One example of this is the General Adaptation Syndrome, which assumes that every person reacts to stressful situations in the exact same way. This doesn’t take into account the fact that some people have more support to help take care of stress than other