Dr. Ken Tangen gives a quick overview of how biology and psychology combine to make biological psychology (also called behavioral neuroscience).

1. Today’s Topic
Biological Psychology

2. combining biology & psychology

3. Behavioral Neuroscience
Physiological psych
Biological psych
Psychobiology
Sometimes called:
combining biology & psychology

4. The brain people of psychology
combining biology & psychology

5. The brain people of psychology
combining biology & psychology
The behavior people of neuroscience

6. The brain people of psychology

7. The brain people of psychology
Use experiments

8. You

9. You Experimenter

10. You Experimenter
Depends on you

11. You Experimenter
Depends on you Independent of you

12. You Experimenter
Depends on you Independent of you
dependent
variable
Independent
variable
stomp!ooch!

20. Thinking occurs in the

22. Correlation
between skull size & intelligence

23. Correlation
between skull bumps & intelligence
Phrenology

25. Ablation
remove brain parts
see if bunny can still hop

27. Longitudinal =
same people over time

28. Cross-sectional =
different people
at the same time

29. Teens & kids
see this as shock or anger
Use amygdala to process it

30. Adults
see this as fear
Use prefrontal cortex

31. 3-D coordinates guide surgery

32. Tissue, blood & labs
Trace neural connections

33. PET, MRI & EEG

36. Dr. Ken Tangen
www.BiologicalPsych.com