The field of psychology emerged 130 years ago, when researchers began to directly study and observe psychological effects. The first psychological laboratory was established in Germany 1879 by Wilhelem Wundt. 6. What a contemporary perspectives in psychology?
Three complementary streams of psychology are the: a) Biological perspective(including biopsychology and evolutionary psychology) b) Psychological perspective (including behaviorism, cognitive psychology, the psychodynamic approach, and humanism) c) Sociocultral perspective. 7. What are the major specialties in psychology?
Including: biopsychology, clinical, cultural, cognitive, community, comparative, consumer, counseling, developmental, educational, engineering, environmental …show more content…
How the neurons operate and communicate?
Neurons carry the input from the senses to the brain, where the inputs are processed.
Neurons also carry output from the brain in order to activate muscles and glands, yet is single neuron not to smart it takes many to make you blink, your brain power arises because individual neurons link to one another in spidery webs, each neurons receives massages from many others. Neurons from vast networks, they produce intelligence and consciousness. 2. What a major parts of nervous system? a) Central Nervous System(brain, spinal cord) b) Peripheral Nervous System. (somatic nervous system, automatic nervous system) 3. How different parts of the brain identified are and what do they do? 4. How do left and right hemispheres differ and what are the different functions of the lobes of the cerebral cortex.
The human brain is marked not by overall size but by advanced corticalization, or enragement of the cerebral cortex.
a)Split brains- can be created by cutting the corpus callosum. The split brain shows a remarkable degree of independence between the right and left