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    Physiological psychology is a subdivision of biological psychology that studies the relationship between the brain and behavior through experiments on non-human animals. It focuses on understanding behavior by studying the nervous system, including the brain structures, cells, and chemical interactions involved in producing actions. Physiological psychologists study topics like sleep, emotion, senses, learning, and disorders through methods like brain imaging, electrodes, and animal research.

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    Physiological psychology is a subdivision of biological psychology that studies the relationship between the brain and behavior through experiments on non-human animals. It focuses on understanding behavior by studying the nervous system, including the brain structures, cells, and chemical interactions involved in producing actions. Physiological psychologists study topics like sleep, emotion, senses, learning, and disorders through methods like brain imaging, electrodes, and animal research.

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    Physiological psychology is a subdivision of biological psychology that studies the relationship between the brain and behavior through experiments on non-human animals. It focuses on understanding behavior by studying the nervous system, including the brain structures, cells, and chemical interactions involved in producing actions. Physiological psychologists study topics like sleep, emotion, senses, learning, and disorders through methods like brain imaging, electrodes, and animal research.

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    Physiological psychology

    Physiological psychology is a subdivision of behavioral neuroscience (biological psychology) that studies the neural mechanisms of perception and behavior through direct manipulation of the brains of nonhuman animal subjects in controlled experiments.[1] This field of psychology takes an empirical and practical approach when studying the brain and human behavior. Most people in this field believe that the mind is a phenomenon that stems from the nervous system. By studying and gaining knowledge about the mechanisms of the nervous system, physiological psychologists can uncover many truths about human behavior.Unlike other subdivisions within biological psychology, the main focus of physiological psychological research is the development of theories that describe brain-behavior relationships. Physiological psychology studies many topics relating to the bodys response to a behavior or activity in an organism. It concerns the brain cells, structures, components, and chemical interactions that are involved in order to produce actions.Psychologists in this field usually focus their attention to topics such as sleep, emotion, ingestion, senses, reproductive behavior, learning/memory, communication, psychopharmacology, and neurological disorders. The basis for these studies all surround themselves around the notion of how the nervous system intertwines with other systems in the body to create a specific behavior.[2] Physiological psychology is a branch of psychology that is concerned with the biological basis of behavior, as opposed to the social influences on behavior. It is also known as biological psychology, biopsychology, or psychobiology, and is closely related to neuroscience. Physiological psychologists study the electrical and chemical functions and activities of the brain, and how they relate to a person's mental experience and behavior. Physiological psychology is an approach to psychological research, which is used to study many different psychological phenomena. There are a number of areas of focus within physiological psychology. Most research focuses on the brain, and the reactions that take place at a neurological level. In the beginning of the field's development, sensation and perception were the focus, such as the brain's response to familiar smells. Neurotransmitters, such as serotonin and dopamine, are frequently studied by physiological psychologists, including the development of psychiatric medications that address chemical imbalances in the brain. Some subjects commonly thought of as purely social can be studied from the viewpoint of physiological psychology. Research on mirror neurons, for example, helps to explain how people empathize with other people. Mirror neuron research looks at how neurons in one brain are activated when that person or animal is watching someone else perform a behavior that activates those same neurons. This is useful to help people who struggle with social interaction, such as people with autism. Many different techniques are used in physiological psychology. Machines to view the brain, such as in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), are often used to study the brain's physical structures and functional activity. Other methods include electrodes on the head that monitor the

    brain's activity, or wires inserted into the brains of animals that stimulate different brain structures. People who have experienced brain damage are frequently studied to determine which part of the brain was damaged and the corresponding effects of the damage on the person's behavior. Surgery is sometimes used in physiological psychology research, particularly in animal research but also in humans who are undergoing brain surgery for other conditions, such as cancer or epilepsy. Surgeons investigate the effects of stimulation or damage to a given brain structure on behavior and, in the case of human brain surgery patients, on the subjective experience of the person. Surgery is used less in this field as accurate and non-invasive brain imaging techniques became available. Animal research is a controversial ethical issue in physiological psychology. Experimentation on animals is very important for a lot of research in this field and can yield research findings that help many people. Ethical guidelines for the care and treatment of research animals must be followed by researchers, but animal suffering still occurs even if it is minimized. Animal rights groups in particular may oppose the use of animals in this researc

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