Concepts:

1) How does neuroscience help or hinder the credibility of psychology as a science?

-Neuroscience helps psyhcology as a science because it adds a new perspective, creaitng amore complete picture of psychology as a whole. For example, take a case study of a person with ADHD. Looking at the person from a behavioral aspect, a psychologist could study how tha tperson behaves, especially in compariso nto an average person without ADHD. From a behavior gentics point, he could see how much of the ADHD was due to heredity and how much was due to environment. However, from a neuroscience perspective he could look at how differences in the brian, chemical imbalances, etc. may have influenced the condition, giving more depth (and therefore more credibility) to the equation.

2)How do the brain and the body work together to explain how humans think, feel and act?

-The brain influences the body by sending signals down that influence the body and vice versa. For example, in a moment of danger the brian would trigger hormones that increase the heartrate in the body. Conversely, if aperson burned their hand, that sensation would travel up the nervous system to the brain, enabling a person to recognize pain. Recognizing how the brain and body work can therefore better help us understand hwy peole behave and think the way they do through understanding how bodily processes trigger thoughts and behaior. For example, to examine why psycopaths act with no apparent remorse or guilt for the destruction they've caused, we could look at differences (compared to normal people) in their brains. Fore example, may bone particular area is distorted/smaller/different from the average person's brain.

3)What is the difference between cognitive psychology and neuroscience?

-Cognitive psychology: how we encode, store, and process info.

-Neuroscience: how the brain and body cause emotions, behavior, thought processes.

-Neuroscience looks at a more biological, hard science aspect, going into the phsyical structure of the brain and body, while cognitive psy chology is more concerned with actual thought processes (