BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
,WHAT IS BIOLOGICAL/ • Structures and functions of structure of our
neurochemicals such as nervous system
PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY? neurotransmitters.
• Scientific study of biology of behaviour. Neuropathology Luigi Galvani
• Biological approach • Study of diseases in the nervous system • Discovered that electricity can be found
Neuropharmacology in the body of human and animals.
Brain • Study of the effects of drugs on the Hermann Von Helmholtz
• Command center of the body that give nervous systems • He tried estimating how fast our
signals to our actions. impulses are.
Neurotransmitters Pierre Flourens
• Chemicals in the brain which carries • He tried moving the brain of an animal
information throughout the body. NOTABLE PEOPLE IN BIOPSYCH INFLUENCES and found out that there are changes in
• Give signals to what the body needs. the behaviour.
• It creates emotions or even guide Aristotle
Paul Broca
behaviours. • Applied the principle of experimental
• Organ for reasoning is the heart.
ablation to a man who had stroke
Plato
through an autopsy. Part of the brain
• Organ for functioning is the brain.
functions as motor speech.
Galen
BIOPSYCH IS ALSO RELATED TO • Brain function based on ventricles.
Dichotomous thinking
NEUROSCIENCE. Rene Descartes
• Black or white/ good or bad/ all or
• He tried to answer the mind-body
nothing
• Study of nervous system which includes question.
many different approaches. • Dualism approach (Mind and Body is
Neuronatomy separated)
• Study of the structure of nervous system • Mind and body interacted in the pineal
Neurophysiology gland. EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BRAIN
• Study of functions of nervous system
Neuroendocrinology Dualism Monism Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
• Connection between nervous system Mind and body are -Mind and body are not • Evolution by Natural Selection
and endocrine systems. separated separated • All organisms are best adapted if it is
Neurochemistry -All phenomenon in our survived, reproduced, and passed on
mind comes from the genetic information.
, EVOLUTION AND BEHAVIOUR • one form or the other, never in • Two different genes for a trait (One
Social Dominance combination (Yellow and Greeen pea) parent is tall and the other is not, more
• Male species in animals establish a True-breeding lines likely you will be born on an average
stable hierarchy of social dominance • Always producing offspring with the height)
through combative encounter with same trait, generation after generation Genetic Variation
other males. (Kind labrador will produce the same • Occurs through recombination of
• Dominant male must pass their kind labrador in the future). genetic material (Sexual Reproduction)
characteristics to future generations. Dominant Trait Gametes (Sex cells)
• Dominant females are more likely to • Appeared in all first-generation off- • Ova/ egg cells and sperm cells
produce more and healthier offspring. spring (All family has brown eyes) • Produced during the process of cell
Courtship Display Recessive Trait division called meiosis.
• Promoting the evolution of new species • Appeared about one-quarter of the Zygote
second-generation offspring (All siblings • Sperm and egg cell combine during
EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BRAIN have brown eyes except for the one who fertilization.
• Increased size has blue eyes). Chromosomes
• Cerebrum would be the most increase in • Threadlike structures in the nucleus of
size. the cell
• Increase number of convulsions (folds on the MENDELIAN GENETICS • Humans have 23 pairs.
cerebral surface or the wrinkled parts of the Phenotype • Cell, Nucleus, 23 pair Chromosomes,
brain). • Observable traits DNA (Double helix), and Genes (Four
Brain Stem Genotype sequence of DNA).
• (regulates reflex activities critical for • Traits that can pass on to its offspring
survival) through its genetic material (Being the STRUCTURE AND REPLICATION
Cerebrum only one who has asthma in the family) DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)
• involved more complex adaptive Alleles • Each strand has a sequence of
processes such as learning, perception, • Two genes that control the same trait nucleotides.
and motivation. (Two genes represent having brown • Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine
eyes) Mutations
Homozygous • Accidental alterations (Diseases like
• Two identical genes for a trait (Both Down Syndrome)
FUNDAMENTAL GENETICS parents are tall so more likely, you are • For ex. Adenine was combined with
tall also) Guanin, that’s alterations.
Dichotomous traits Heterozygous Replication
,WHAT IS BIOLOGICAL/ • Structures and functions of structure of our
neurochemicals such as nervous system
PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY? neurotransmitters.
• Scientific study of biology of behaviour. Neuropathology Luigi Galvani
• Biological approach • Study of diseases in the nervous system • Discovered that electricity can be found
Neuropharmacology in the body of human and animals.
Brain • Study of the effects of drugs on the Hermann Von Helmholtz
• Command center of the body that give nervous systems • He tried estimating how fast our
signals to our actions. impulses are.
Neurotransmitters Pierre Flourens
• Chemicals in the brain which carries • He tried moving the brain of an animal
information throughout the body. NOTABLE PEOPLE IN BIOPSYCH INFLUENCES and found out that there are changes in
• Give signals to what the body needs. the behaviour.
• It creates emotions or even guide Aristotle
Paul Broca
behaviours. • Applied the principle of experimental
• Organ for reasoning is the heart.
ablation to a man who had stroke
Plato
through an autopsy. Part of the brain
• Organ for functioning is the brain.
functions as motor speech.
Galen
BIOPSYCH IS ALSO RELATED TO • Brain function based on ventricles.
Dichotomous thinking
NEUROSCIENCE. Rene Descartes
• Black or white/ good or bad/ all or
• He tried to answer the mind-body
nothing
• Study of nervous system which includes question.
many different approaches. • Dualism approach (Mind and Body is
Neuronatomy separated)
• Study of the structure of nervous system • Mind and body interacted in the pineal
Neurophysiology gland. EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BRAIN
• Study of functions of nervous system
Neuroendocrinology Dualism Monism Darwin’s Theory of Evolution
• Connection between nervous system Mind and body are -Mind and body are not • Evolution by Natural Selection
and endocrine systems. separated separated • All organisms are best adapted if it is
Neurochemistry -All phenomenon in our survived, reproduced, and passed on
mind comes from the genetic information.
, EVOLUTION AND BEHAVIOUR • one form or the other, never in • Two different genes for a trait (One
Social Dominance combination (Yellow and Greeen pea) parent is tall and the other is not, more
• Male species in animals establish a True-breeding lines likely you will be born on an average
stable hierarchy of social dominance • Always producing offspring with the height)
through combative encounter with same trait, generation after generation Genetic Variation
other males. (Kind labrador will produce the same • Occurs through recombination of
• Dominant male must pass their kind labrador in the future). genetic material (Sexual Reproduction)
characteristics to future generations. Dominant Trait Gametes (Sex cells)
• Dominant females are more likely to • Appeared in all first-generation off- • Ova/ egg cells and sperm cells
produce more and healthier offspring. spring (All family has brown eyes) • Produced during the process of cell
Courtship Display Recessive Trait division called meiosis.
• Promoting the evolution of new species • Appeared about one-quarter of the Zygote
second-generation offspring (All siblings • Sperm and egg cell combine during
EVOLUTION OF HUMAN BRAIN have brown eyes except for the one who fertilization.
• Increased size has blue eyes). Chromosomes
• Cerebrum would be the most increase in • Threadlike structures in the nucleus of
size. the cell
• Increase number of convulsions (folds on the MENDELIAN GENETICS • Humans have 23 pairs.
cerebral surface or the wrinkled parts of the Phenotype • Cell, Nucleus, 23 pair Chromosomes,
brain). • Observable traits DNA (Double helix), and Genes (Four
Brain Stem Genotype sequence of DNA).
• (regulates reflex activities critical for • Traits that can pass on to its offspring
survival) through its genetic material (Being the STRUCTURE AND REPLICATION
Cerebrum only one who has asthma in the family) DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)
• involved more complex adaptive Alleles • Each strand has a sequence of
processes such as learning, perception, • Two genes that control the same trait nucleotides.
and motivation. (Two genes represent having brown • Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, Cytosine
eyes) Mutations
Homozygous • Accidental alterations (Diseases like
• Two identical genes for a trait (Both Down Syndrome)
FUNDAMENTAL GENETICS parents are tall so more likely, you are • For ex. Adenine was combined with
tall also) Guanin, that’s alterations.
Dichotomous traits Heterozygous Replication
