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Biopsychology, Neuroscience, and Human Nature

Biopsychology

Biopsychology: The specialty in psychology that studies the interaction of biology, behavior, and mental processes

  • Biopsychologists often collaborate with cognitive psychologists, biologists, computer scientists, chemists, neurologists, linguists, and other interested in the connection between brain and mind

  • The result is NEUROSCIENCE

Chapter 2 Beth Miller, MA

How are Genes and Behavior Linked?

  • At birth, the human brain emerges already "programmed" for language, social interaction, self-preservation, and many other functions

  • Evolution: The gradual process of biological change that occurs in a species as it adapts to its environment

  • Genetics and Inheritance

Charles Darwin, Evolution, & Natural Selection

  • Charles Darwin's greatest love was nature
  • In Darwin's famous book, On the Origin of Species (1859), he carefully made the case for the evolution of life
  • His theory of evolution created a fundamental change in the way people saw their relationship to other living things
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