Biological Psychology

Biological Psychology is a psychology course that I had taken for my second Bachelor's degree for Human services. This is a course that became one towards my minor in Psychology. BioBases is what the students nicknamed this course for Biological Bases. This will be a series of articles that I am writing using my notes from class from this course.

This idea for a course of this nature started in the year 1750 with the general study of this area of study of the mind. Following in the year 1900 the idea of behavioral studies began to appear, and by 1935 and in the middle of the Depression the idea of more detail of behavioral techniques working with the idea of contextual biology that shows the connection between the mind and the brain. Finally in 1965 another idea began known as cognitive studies that included the mind and the behavior that the brain and biology.

What was and is still needed are people who study this area and are known as 'Psychologists' that study the functions of biology and how it works or observes with behaviors exhibited. There are psychologists known as 'functionalists' who are or maybe have other beliefs and have a general understanding of the world biologically. The person as a whole not only a part of what is going on around them and others.

There is the idea of what is known as 'Reductionalism' that reduces a person to only part of a whole person. This is the beginning of the 'holistic' understanding of a person. At the beginning of this discussion the first disorder we learned about was OCD- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder- along with a few other disorders, such as Tourette's and showing the relationship between the brain and the body, as an example of saying the issue of strep throat and the bacteria that causes it and how the basal ganglia producing odd behaviors and the mind like in Tourette's and the "built in swearing area". In this area of psychology you can learn how you could "separate the two sides of the brain" and develop two different personality traits or could in the brain.

Another area that a course in Biological Psychology can show us is one dealing with gender conditions and the variety of people that are in the world. Being a counselor or a psychologist one must be comfortable with uncertainty. This is working with people at the 'Intermediate' level.

What is a worldview? A worldview is a complex tool that shows many strategies that lets us analyze and evaluate ideas. There are biological and scientific knowledge that allows us all, counselors and others, to allow for 'adaptation' meaning that things change continuously and that body and brain cells adapt along with the tissues and organs along with the individual and various groups of the species and change over time in response to circumstances. Change is continuous.

In various psychology courses there will always be a reason to use what is called a 'bell curve' to help in redefining behaviors and individual behaviors for us all. The bell curve is a way of showing the distribution of the highs and the lows and the median of a particular study, and in particular in biological psychology one of genetic revelations and learning who everyone is at time.

There are labels that have impacts on people in society that will change a person's impacts for 'people differ from each other' for demographics usually don't tell about people and the groups always are adapting and always different.

End of Part one

To be continued- Part two- History of Psychology