At the time of original publication psychobiology was one of the
most rapidly developing areas of psychology. Its growth owed much
to recent advances both in techniques for studying the
physiological bases of behaviour and in major conceptual advances
in the way people thought about the brain. First published in 1989,
this textbook introduction to the field looks at the state of
psychobiology in the light of these advances. The issues covered
include: the factors that have shaped the current state of the
field; the value of animal subjects in the study of psychological
processes; the problems of studying the brain, including the
theoretical assumptions underlying the most widely used methods;
the current status of influential theories, like Stellar's 2-center
theory of motivation and Papez's theory of emotion; the
relationship between psychological theory and physiological data,
such as recent accounts of the visual system; the problems
presented by 'emergent properties' like consciousness.
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