Why Biological Psychologists Study Behavior
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Biological psychologists study behavior by researching and studying how behavior and experiences relate to individual as genes and physiology. Biological psychology also investigates questions of how the brain and connected to consciousness. This branch of psychology stresses the goal of relating biology to the issue of psychology. This is called by many different words such as psychobiology, biopsychology, physiological psychology or behavioral neuroscience. Brain functioning is the main focus for biological psychology. Studying the brain, biological psychologists attempt to find the best ways to help with recovery after brain damage, or what specific part of the brain helps us learn language or is involved in storing memories. Also researchers study what biological factors make people more likely to be affected with psychological disorders.
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The idea that the mind and body work in unison and that this unison should be used in medical and psychological treatments physical …show more content…
Santiago Ramon y Cajel, another leading theorist because of his breakthroughs in understanding the firing structures of the brain. He was the first to demonstrate the organized structure of the brain, before it had just been considered a collection of cells. (Wickens, 2005). In the 1930s, J.Z. Young demonstrated in a video called The Squid and its Giant Nerve Fiber, preparing a squid giant axon for electrophysiological study and demonstrating some experimental techniques (Lisieski, 2010). He discovered that he could locate a neuron on a giant squid and keep it alive for hours in the lab. Because squid neurons are much larger than human neurons, it was easier to study their how they worked (Wickens,
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Biological Psychology
Biological psychologists study behavior by researching and studying how behavior and experiences relate to individual as genes and physiology. Biological psychology also investigates questions of how the brain and connected to consciousness. This branch of psychology stresses the goal of relating biology to the issue of psychology. This is called by many different words such as psychobiology, biopsychology, physiological psychology or behavioral neuroscience. Brain functioning is the main focus for biological psychology. Studying the brain, biological psychologists attempt to find the best ways to help with recovery after brain damage, or what specific part of the brain helps us learn language or is involved in storing memories. Also researchers study what biological factors make people more likely to be affected with psychological disorders.
Historical Development
The idea that the mind and body work in unison and that this unison should be used in medical and psychological treatments physical …show more content…
Santiago Ramon y Cajel, another leading theorist because of his breakthroughs in understanding the firing structures of the brain. He was the first to demonstrate the organized structure of the brain, before it had just been considered a collection of cells. (Wickens, 2005). In the 1930s, J.Z. Young demonstrated in a video called The Squid and its Giant Nerve Fiber, preparing a squid giant axon for electrophysiological study and demonstrating some experimental techniques (Lisieski, 2010). He discovered that he could locate a neuron on a giant squid and keep it alive for hours in the lab. Because squid neurons are much larger than human neurons, it was easier to study their how they worked (Wickens,