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
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