Today’s TopicBiological Psychology

combining biology & psychology

Behavioral Neuroscience

Physiological psych

Biological psych

Psychobiology

Sometimes called:

combining biology & psychology

The brain people of psychology

combining biology & psychology

The brain people of psychology

combining biology & psychology

The behavior people of neuroscience

The brain people of psychology

The brain people of psychology

Use experiments

You

You Experimenter

You ExperimenterDepends on you

You ExperimenterDepends on you Independent of you

You ExperimenterDepends on you Independent of you

dependent variable

Independent variablestomp!ooch!

Thinking occurs in the

Correlation between skull size & intelligence

Correlation between skull bumps & intelligence

Phrenology

Ablation remove brain parts

see if bunny can still hop

Longitudinal =same people over time

Cross-sectional =different people at the same time

Teens & kids see this as shock or angerUse amygdala to process it

Adultssee this as fearUse prefrontal cortex

3-D coordinates guide surgery

Tissue, blood & labsTrace neural connections

PET, MRI & EEG

Dr. Ken Tangen

www.BiologicalPsych.com