1. Origins of Physiological Psychology
GPC 126
Physiological Psychology
Origins of Physiological Psychology
Dean Owen, Ph.D., LPCC
METU-NCC
Spring 2015

2. This presentation has been created for the sole purpose of assisting students enrolled in GPC 126, Physiological Psychology, during the Spring Semester of 2015 at Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus All of the material in the presentation is drawn from the course textbook, Foundations of Physiological Psychology by Neil R. Carlson

3. Plan for the day 1. Define the field of physiological psychology
2. Review the history of the field
3. Four levels of science

4. Important and basic definitions

5. Definition of the field
Physiological Psychology is the scientific study of the biological origins of behavior. It is the joining of both psychology and physiology that permits understanding of human behavior; normal and abnormal.

6. What is behavior? a : the manner of conducting oneself
Definition of the field
What is behavior?
a : the manner of conducting oneself
b : anything that an organism does involving action and response to stimulation
c : the response of an individual, group, or species to its environment

7. How is behavior expressed???
Can I see behavior??
What are the three domains of human behavior?

8. Is this behavior????

9. Definition of the field
Cognitive behavior
Thinking

10. Definition of the field
Affective behavior
Feeling

11. Definition of the field
Psycho-Motor
behavior
Doing

12. What is normal behavior…..??
Definition of the field
What is normal behavior…..??

13. What is abnormal behavior?
Definition of the field
What is abnormal behavior?

14. Definition of the field
Physiological psychology (biological psychology, or behavioral neuroscience) is a field of psychology that connects behavior and mental processes to bodily processes, and to the functions and actions of the brain. The brain in turn affects behavior and the mind.

15. Definition of the field
Perhaps the greatest challenge to be faced by scientists is the search for a complete understanding of the human nervous system….it is the search for what makes us human.

16. Dualism: A belief that the mind and the body are separate things.
Definition of Terms
Dualism: A belief that the mind and the body are separate things.
Monism: A belief all things are matter and energy and the mind is the product of the working of the human nervous system.

17. Definition of Terms
What are we??
Body

18. Definition of Terms
What are we??
Mind

19. Definition of Terms
What are we??
Spirit

20. For many years scientists have studied the body…….
And later we studied the mind….

21. Now we are studying how they relate to each other……

22. Relating Brain and Behavior
3 Ways
1. Somatic Intervention
2. Behavioral Intervention
3. Correlation
Somatic: Relating to the body….(bedensel?)

23. Relating Brain and Behavior
Somatic Intervention
Intervention
Behavior Change

24. Relating Brain and Behavior Behavioral Intervention
Behavior Change
Brain Affected

25. Relating Brain and Behavior
Correlation
Somatic Variables
Behavioral variables

26. Perspectives
To understand how brain affects behavior or mental processes we need to look at behavior rather carefully and at many different levels or perspectives.
1.Description of behavior
2.Evolution of behavior
3.Development (ontological) of behavior
4.Mechanisms of behavior
5.Applications of biopsychology to behavior

27. Description of Behavior
1.We can describe behavior in two ways. First in terms of acts or processes, e.g., description of limb movements carefully photographed at different positions.
2.We can also describe behavior in functional terms, e.g., what was the limb doing when it was going through many positions; so the limb could be involved in walking, running or hopping.

28. Evolution of Behavior
1. A number of behaviors can be shared by a variety of animals due to common elements of their biology. An earthworm, an eagle and a human all have neurons and thus can have similar tactile sensations.

29. Evolution of Behavior
And yet there are behaviors that are different across species, or even within a specie. Navigation in fruit-eating megabats is based on vision; in microbats, echolocation.

30. REM: Rapid Eye Movement
Development of Behavior (Change in behavior over life span)
Behavior changes during development. So the duration of sleep in humans decreases with age. So does REM and Non-REM sleep.
REM: Rapid Eye Movement

31. Electricity or Chemistry
Mechanisms of Behavior
1.So what lies underneath this behavior that we study?
2.A variety of biological mechanisms including electrophysiological and biochemical mechanisms.
3.So behaviors like walking, sleeping, making memories, and reproductive behaviors all tend to have these mechanisms for their execution.
Electricity or Chemistry

32. Applications
1.Major goal or application of biological psychology is to improve human health.
2.Research in this field has led to the discovery of many drugs and other techniques that alleviate suffering from such conditions as insomnia, schizophrenia, and depression.

33. Levels of Analysis
1.This behavior that we have been talking about can be analyzed at many levels.
2.Social level being highest level of all. Each level as we proceed becomes more minute in analysis.
Reductionism is an approach that analyzes any phenomenon at more basic levels of analysis.

34. Levels of Analysis
1.This behavior that we have been talking about can be analyzed at many levels.
2.Social level being highest level of all. Each level as we proceed becomes more minute in analysis. Reductionism is an approach that analyzes any phenomenon at more basic levels of analysis.
Social
Organ
Neural systems level
Circuit
Cellular
Synaptic
Molecular

35. Consciousness defined
Consciousness: the fact that we are aware of – and can tell others about – our thoughts, perceptions, memories, and feelings. It is self-awareness.

36. What are some things that can affect “consciousness?
What does it mean to be conscious?
How do you know that you are conscious?
What are some things that can affect “consciousness?

37. Anything that significantly changes the structure or chemistry of the brain.
1. Brain damage: Trauma
2. Drugs
3. Fatigue

38. Language and Memory Consciousness
Consciousness and communication are related.
The ability to send and receive messages with other people enables us to send and receive our own messages – in other words, to think and to be aware of our own existence.
Language and Memory

39. A brief history of physiological psychology
Early Ancestors
1.One million years ago man valued brain, and knew that injury to it caused death.
2.First brain surgery (trephination) took place around 7000 BCE during Neolithic times.

40. A brief history of physiological psychology
Chinese In 2700 BCE, Shen Nung originated acupuncture based on Yin-Yang philosophy. Acupuncture was derived from Taoist traditions that were even older (8,000 years).

41. A brief history of physiological psychology
Ancient Egyptians
Called the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, they were first written account of brain in 1700 BCE, based on text that was 3000 BCE old. This account describes 28 cases of brain, skull and spinal injuries.

42. A brief history of physiological psychology
Hippocrates
1.Studied brain injured patients (gladiators), and noted that brain was the seat of our joys, pleasures, sorrows etc.
2.And our sensations and intelligence.

43. A brief history of physiological psychology
Greek Philosophers discussed the mind at length,,,before we can we must define it….
A mind is the term given to the complex of cognitve faculties *abilities) permit:
Consciousness
Thinking
Reasoning
Perception
Judgment
Intelligence
Feeling

44. A brief history of physiological psychology
Greek Philosophers
Plato correctly identified mind in the brain, however his student Aristotle believed that mind was in the heart, brain to him was merely a radiator to cool the blood.

45. A brief history of physiological psychology
Roman Physician
1. Galen (Jalinoos, ) a prominent Roman surgeon agreed with Hippocrates on brain as the seat of mind. Carried out dissections, and found cerebrum to be soft and cerebellum hard.
2. Also discovered fluid-filled ventricles, which he thought (cerebrospinal fluid) was used to communicate.
Aelius Galenus ce
Galen of Pergamon
(Bergama)

46. A brief history of physiological psychology
Ibn Zakariyaal-Razi(Rhazes) a persian physician, criticized Galen on his theory bodily humors.
Describes seven cranial nerves and 31 spinal nerves in Kitabal-Hawi Fil-Tibb.
Muhammad ibn
Zakariya al-Razi

47. A brief history of physiological psychology
Al-Haytum
(Al Hasan)
Al-Haytum(Alhazen) wrote a seven volume book on optics called Kitab-al-Manazir.
Correctly identified light as an external source for vision and dispelled Empedocles idea of the visual ray. ce

48. A brief history of physiological psychology
Al-Zahrawi
Al-Zahrawi(Abulcasis) an Arab surgeon from Spain, described several surgical treatments for neurological disorders.
Wrote Kitabal-Tasrif, a thirty-volume encyclopedia of medical practices.

49. A brief history of physiological psychology
Ibn-i-Sina
Ibn-i-Sina(Avicenna) also called the Prince of Medicine wrote Al-Qanoonfil-Tibb‘The Canon of Medicine’.
In the text he talked about perception, imagination and generation of ideas.

50. A brief history of physiological psychology
Rene Descartes
Like Plato believed that the mind possessed innate ideas, and proposed mind-body dualism interacting at the pineal gland.
Descartes described reflex action, as a basis of understanding behavior from a neuro-scientific view.

51. Dualism A brief history of physiological psychology
The idea that humans are
composed of separate parts.
Physical Qualities
Size
Weight
Shape
Color
Motion
Mental Qualities
Consciousness
Perceptual experience
Emotional experience
Beliefs
Desires

52. A brief history of physiological psychology
Reflex
Also known as a reflex action, is an involuntary and nearly instantaneous movement in response to a stimulus.

53. A brief history of physiological psychology
Nerves
1.Galvani and Bois-Reymond showed that electrical current would twitch muscles, and the brain generated electricity.
2.Bell and Magendies showed spinal roots carried messages in different directions.
Luigi Galvani ( ) Charles Bell( )Emil Du Bois-Reymond( )Francois Magendie( )

54. A brief history of physiological psychology
Luigi Aloisio Galvani
Italian physician
Lived and died in Bologna Italy.
1771 Discovered that the muscles of dead frogs twitched when struck with an electric spark.
Bioelectricity

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Luigi Aloisio Galvani

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Specific Nerve Energies
Muller proposed that the nature of a sensation depends on which sensory fibers stimulated, not on how fibers are stimulated.
Johannes Müller
( )

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Specific Nerve Energies
Muller’s student, Helmholtz measured the speed of nerve conduction as well as researching the physiology of vision and visual perception..
H. Helmholtz
( )

58. A brief history of physiological psychology
Neuron Doctrine
Cajal believed that neurons are separate and communicate through gaps. This came to be known as the neuron doctrine.
Ramón y Cajal
( )
His pioneering investigations of the microscopic structure of the brain were original: he is considered by many to be the father of modern
neuroscience. He was skilled at drawing, and hundreds of his illustrations of brain cells are still used for educational purposes today

59. A brief history of physiological psychology
Synapse
Studied reflex action in dogs.
Based on his behavioral experiments he inferred about synaptic transmission.
Named the gap Cajal pointed out as synapse.
Sir Charles Sherrington
( )

60. A brief history of physiological psychology
Brain Regions
Flourens conducted many brain ablation experiments and found that the cerebellum played an important role in coordinated movements.
Pierre Flourens
( )
Marie Jean Pierre Flourens was a French physiologist, the founder of experimental brain science and a pioneer in anaesthesia.
Through the study of ablations (small areas of intentional damage) on animals, he was the first to prove that the mind was located in the brain, not the heart.

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“Skull Bumps”
Gall studies skull bumps and proposed modularity of brain. Different parts of brain performed different functions.
Franz Gall
( )

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Speech Area
Broca, studied patient Tan after his death and found an area in the brain that was involved with speech production.
Paul Broca
( )

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Speech Comprehension
Just as Broca had shown speech production area in the brain, Wernicke identified speech comprehension area.
Carl Wernicke
( )

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Brain Areas
Brodmann divided the brain into many distinct areas or regions and delineated their role in behavioral function.
Korbinian Brodmann
( )

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Localization of Function
Lashley’s showed that a number of behaviors like learning and memory were not localized in particular regions of the brain.
Karl Spencer Lashley
(1890–1958)

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Reward Centers
Electrical stimulation of the brain evokes emotional responses in animals.
James Olds
( )

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Electrical Brain Stimulation
Canadian Neurosurgeon. Electrically stimulated human brain to localize epileptic foci.
Stimulation of specific areas of the brain evoked specific memories.
Described sensory and motor cortex in the human brain.
Wilder Penfield
( )

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Brain Lateralization
1.Sperry carried experiments to discover left and right brain hemispheric specialization.
Roger Sperry
( )

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Left Brain
I am the left brain.
I am a scientist. A mathematician.
I love the familiar. I categorize. I am accurate. Linear. Analytical. Strategic. I am practical.
Always in control.
A master of words and language. Realistic. I calculate equations and play with numbers.
I am order. I am logic.
I know exactly who I am.

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Right Brain
I am the right brain.
I am creativity. A free spirit.
I am passion. Yearning. Senseulaity. I am the sound of roaring laughter. I am taste. The feeling of sand beneath bare feet. I am movement. Vivid colors. I am the urge to paint on empty canvas. I am boundless imagination. Art. Poetry. I sense. I feel. I am everything I wanted to be.

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Biology of Memory
Neurobiological mechanisms underlying learning and memory in primates.
Brain lesions specially designed to study behavioral learning and cognitive memory tasks.
Mortimer Mishkin
(19??-Present)

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Koch is promoting the study of consciousness through the use the modern tools of neurobiology..
Christopher Koch
(1956-Present)

74. Influenza Control Prediction Four Levels of Science 2. Explanation
1. Description (weak)
2. Explanation
Prediction
Control
(Strong)

75. Assignment Before next class please watch the following videos.
Neurons: How They Work

76. Wile E. Coyote
class is over!
Harika!!