Introduction

Question 1

What does the biological perspective look at?

Answer 1

How the brain controls behaviour

Question 2

What does a hierarchy of organisation refer too?

Answer 2

All levels are connected

Any manipulation at any level can change the function at other and all levels of the hierarchy

Question 3

What consists of the hierarchy?

Answer 3

Bottom:

genes, proteins, organelles, cells, brain regions, brain circuits, whole brain

Question 4

What influences behaviour?

Answer 4

Evolutionary and genetic influences - species typical behaviour

Environmental and social influences

Previous experience (e.g. being raised in orphanages)

Current motivational state - hunger, sexual drives

Question 5

Does the environment impact the brain or vice versa?

Answer 5

Both, they interact all of the time

some proteins may not be expressed due to the environment - epigenetics