Importance of Biology || Biological Bases of Behavior || Bcis Notes

Importance of Biology in the psychological understanding of behavior  (Bio-Psychology):

Humans are bio-social creatures. That’s why there is an importance of biology in the psychological understanding of behavior.  Bio-Psychology refers to the board term that describes behavior and cognition related to biological processes. It explains how neurons work in learning processes, thinking, emotions, and motivations. Also, it contributes to psychology in different ways as listed below:

• Gives insight into hereditary factors to describe behavior. Example; Twins
• Many psycho-social phenomena like discrimination, prejudices, etc can be handled through biological processes.
• Various psycho-physical maladjustments can be relieved by understanding biological science. Example; hypertension, drugs, heart disease, cancer, etc
• Finally, biopsychology helps to develop a healthy style with long-lasting positive impact.

Behavioral Neuroscience: A glance

The subject to study the biological basis of animal and human behavior is called Behavioral Neuroscience. The communication link between the body and brain helps us to understand many areas of psychology. It finds out personality, adjustment effectiveness, responses to stress, etc. Neuroscientists study the nervous system including the brain. The brain works on the basis of a stimulus. There are three interrelated activities of stimulus in human beings. They are listed below:

1.  Sensing stimulus
2.  Processing stimulus
3.  Responding stimulus

Sensing stimulus:

A stimulus is any kind of aspects that directly influence our sense organs. It excites our receptor cells and provokes a response. Eg; a sense of taste, smell and sight.It can also be internal as headache, and other several types of pain that occurs in vsrious parts like stomach, chest, lungs etc. The specialized cells of the nervous system that senses stimuli are called receptors. They receive outside form of energies and translates them into internal messages for the interpretation of the brain. There are many receptors like eyes and ears.

Processing stimulus:

The second activity in the chain is processing or interpreting the information that reaches the receptors. This typically takes place in the brain. It is also the functioning of the brain.Procssing involves starting with an incoming stimulus and working upwards until a representation of the object is formed in our minds. This process also suggest our perceptual experience and is based entirely on the sensory stimuli we piece together using data that is available from our senses.

Responding stimulus:

The third is responding to a stimulus.Responding stimulus is a concept that refers to the belief that our behavior manifests as result of interplay between stimulus and response. It is occured when the action takes place in various parts of body and brain sends messages to the muscles and glands producing a response through neural communication.

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