Principles of Biological Psychology

This perspective believes that every single behavior, thought, and feelings are from the cause of chemicals reactions and cell activities in our body, meaning that what goes on in our minds are of the effects of chemicals and that our body and mind are related. Moreover, the body, though seems to be a complicated structure, can be divided into systems and many subsystems and that a complex mental process can be traced back to the simplest part of our nervous system, the neuron, that signifies whether the body will or will not generate a reaction, this is know as the all or nothing theory, or fire or not fire. Biological Psychology also focuses on how each of our brain hemispheres works and coordinates. Each of the hemispheres has its own unique ability; the left hemisphere is involved with language skills, and the right hemisphere is involved with spatial skills. The fact that our hemispheres are intact makes it possible for the left and right hemisphere to communicate and transfer the information that suits the tasks of the brain. In addition, although adult is more sophisticated and intelligent than babies, babies seem to have a lot more neurons than adults. Why? It is that the nervous system and the brain of a child are like a blank paper, and that the unnecessary neurons will be eliminated throughout the development of the brain. In other words, the child’s brain interacts with the surroundings and experiences and that what is necessary will be kept in order to survive.