physiological psychology
- noun
- /ˌfɪziəˈlɑdʒɪkəl saɪˈkɒlədʒi/
- Specialized
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psicología fisiológica
- In college, students learn about physiological psychology by studying the links between the brain and behavior.
Examples
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Allowances should be made for disabilities, whether physical or mental, unless there is an obvious relationship between the disability (e.g., hand tremors) and one's ability to master a discipline (e.g., a laboratory course in physiological psychology that requires the student to operate on animals).
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Animal demonstrations for physiological psychology have become difficult to perform in many undergraduate laboratories.
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One can study physiological psychology at one end of the spectrum or humanistic psychology at the other.
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The physiological psychology model of motor behavior (Sage, 1984) describes motor movement as a multileveled, complex information-processing activity.
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Animal demonstrations in the undergraduate physiological psychology laboratory are often difficult to perform because of concerns about cost, animal suffering from invasive procedures, and applicability to the human condition.
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The course on physiological psychology investigates how physical processes impact mental functions.
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Research in physiological psychology includes how neurotransmitters affect emotions and actions.
Synonyms
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The study of how the mind and body affect each other
The study of how the brain and body affect the mind and behaviour
The study of how the brain and body affect thoughts and behavior
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly composed from 'physiological' (relating to biological processes) + 'psychology' (study of mind/behavior), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to the study of biological bases of behavior. Although somewhat technical, the compound is compositional and has clear cross‑linguistic equivalents, making it readily understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
The compound physiological psychology joins physiological (the study of 'how the body works', like the brain and nerves) and psychology (the study of the mind and behavior), so it literally names the field that looks at how the body's workings cause thoughts, feelings, and actions. That's why today it means the study of the link between body processes and behavior.