Talk:Physiological psychology

physiological psychology is the study of human needs such as hunger and sleep. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.38.77.109 (talk) 00:03, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Error - physiological psychology and psychophysiology - on this page

I wish to point out that this article makes a very serious error. It claims, wrongly as it happens, that physiological psychology and psychophysiology are synonyms. This is wrong. Physiological psychology is concerned with what happens to mental variables when physiological variables are changed, for example, how might memory be affected by changes to the hippocampus, or emotion be affected by changes to the limbic system. Psychophysiology is concerned with how physiological changes may occur after changes to a person's psychological state - for example, how changes in emotion or arousal may affect galvanic skin response, electroencephaologram readings or electrocardiogram readings. This is explained clearly in the article on psychophysiology, and also on the "Discussion" attached to that article. I hope readers of this article will now read this comment and take note. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:00, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

My opinion is that psychology and pchysilogy will sooner or later merge into one research field not to mention biology and medicine....making distictions between varius filed of research is just the history and tradition

J.Z.A. Jerzy Achimowicz Ph.D. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jachimow (talk • contribs) 19:10, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Modification

I am a current senior at Clemson University and am devoting this semester to modifying psychology articles. I see multiple issues with this article. There should be more content in which physiological psychology is fleshed out more. I plan to do a brief section on the brain and behavior. I also would like to add such information regarding memory, emotions, and communication. I would also like to provide information regarding psychopharmacology and certain disorders. This should give other Wikipedians a better picture of what physiological psychology is and what it revolves around. Bmcomer (talk) 19:05, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

I finally made all of the changes that I believe give this article a lot more information regarding what physiological psychology is and what areas of study fall under the topic. I gave more information on the careers in physiological psychology along with an overview of the nervous system, emotion, sleep, and memory. Although this article could stand for even more information, I think this gives it a better start for people seeking information about physiological psychology.Bmcomer (talk) 13:49, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Memory and the brain - a removed section

I just removed the section below because in the lead of this section, it is stated very clearly: "Physiological psychology [...] studies the neural mechanisms of perception and behavior through direct manipulation of the brains of nonhuman animal subjects in controlled experiments." and "By studying and gaining knowledge about the mechanisms of the nervous system, physiological psychologists can uncover many truths about human behavior."
However, in this section called "memory and the brain", there is not a word about the brain! The way it is now, it does not belong in this article. However, I paste this section here in the talk page, because it is a nice section to start with if somebody would like to add information on the brain to it. Lova Falk talk 10:42, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Memory and the brain

Memory is a major area of study in physiological psychology. Throughout the process of memory, we are able to encode, organize, store, and recall information and stimuli that we encounter throughout the day. There are three types of memory: sensory, short-term, and long-term. In this same sequence, we are able to store information into our brain for long periods of time without losing that information.

Sensory memory is the shortest type of memory, lasting less a second and degrades even faster than that. This type of memory helps in interpreting stimuli received from our senses including our vision, audition, taste, smell, and touch. If stimuli is received from the sensory input, the information is perceived by our sensory memory. The information enters this memory automatically and does not require conscious thought.

Short-term memory can also be called our working memory, because it is able to remember and process information at the same time. In order for sensory memory to be converted to short-term memory, our consciousness must be activated. This type of memory is still very short, lasting up to a minute, and requires a minimal amount of information to be held in memory. For a typical human being, working memory could hold up to about seven items at one time. Our short-term memory is how we are able to read this article and remember what it was about. However, without repetition and an effort to remember the information, it will be lost from memory completely. Older information may also be displaced by newer information entering the brain.

Long-term memory is the last type in the sequence that stores information for long periods of time. There seems to be no set capacity for what the brain is able to store away in long-term memory. Many people wonder if information that has seemed to be “forgotten” could actually just be too difficult to retrieve from our long-term memory. In order for information to be transferred from our working memory to our LTM, rehearsal and meaningful association (both combined are referred to as consolidation) would have to be present. LTM stores information semantically, which requires there to be an association and meaningfulness to the information being stored. In terms of physiology, neural networks are altered or strengthened once a piece of information becomes a part of the long-term memory. Forgetting can occur if a network is weakened or another network overlays it.

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Emotion - cut out paragraphs

For the same reason as stated for memory and the brain, I cut out parts of emotion. This is psychology, not physiological psychology! There is so much to say about the physiology of emotions... Lova Falk talk 10:46, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Emotions help people to adapt in their environment. Each emotion evokes a response in order to guide our behaviors. Without fear, a person would not recognize if they are in a dangerous situation or not. Anger leads to aggression, which is necessary in certain circumstances for survival and maintaining dominance. By being able to react appropriately in the environment, people are more likely to survive and thrive.

Our emotional moods, which can last for extensive periods of times, help establish an individual’s emotional style, which helps shape their view and response to their surroundings throughout life. Six dimensions that can be contributed to shaping a person’s character include resilience, outlook, social intuition, self-awareness, sensitivity to context, and attention. Depending on where a person is at along the spectrum of each of these dimensions can predict a person’s character and behavior mechanisms. There is a partial genetic predisposition to a person’s emotional style, however much of it can be shifted and modified by stimuli in the environment.

Sleep and its physiology

Also the section "Sleep and its physiology" suffers from a lack of physiology. I kept it though, because there is at least some mention of some physiology, such as heart rate and breathing. However, why not mention the EEG patterns characteristic of the different stages??? They should be basic information for sleep physiology. When doing a simple "sleep physiology" search on google, I found this source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK19956/. Please, go ahead! Lova Falk talk 11:06, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

How physiological psychology differs from psychophysiology

Should this article have a section on how physiological psychology, the study of how brain processes affect the mind, differs from psycho-physiology, the study of how the mind affects physiological processes? Rollo August (talk) 17:32, 23 January 2021 (UTC)

I'm new editor

Hi, Im student from Uskudar University. I edit this article (physiological psychology) as an assignment for my course (Biotechnology in Neurosciences (NEU547/1)). I already completed Wikipedia training modules to be proficient in Wikipedia editing. I would appreciate any support. Best wishes, lenah al dalati. Lenah aldalati Lenah aldalati Lenah aldalati (talk) 19:38, 26 January 2024 (UTC)