PSYCH 1010 1st Edition Lecture 7Outline of Last Lecture I. Class was cancelled.Outline of Current Lecture I. Origins of Biological psychology a. Biological psychologyb. Historical origins of the neurosciencesII. Basic strategy: Divide and conquera. amygdalaIII. Eliminative reductionisma. Reductionismb. Eliminative reductionism and cellsc. “factory metaphor”Current Lecture I. Origins of Biological psychologya. Biological psychology is a specialization within a broader group of disciplines known as the neurosciences. It breaks things down to the biological level using eliminative reductionism. b. Neuroscientists began to use the scientific method to explore this issue when it was introduced inphilosophy. The issue began with the mind body problem. This says that all persons are strikinglydifferent. II. Basic strategy: Divide and conquer; Neurosciences used the basic strategy of divide and conquer to explore the fundamental issue of neurosciences. They divide the mind body problem into smaller parts. They look at the faculty processes of the mind: memory, reason, motivations, emotions, etc. Then, the body is divided into smaller parts; the central nervous system, the peripheral nervous system, the amygdala. a. The amygdala is the part of the brain associated with anger. III. Eliminative Reductionisma. Reductionism is the belief the higher levels of functioning are to be explained by lower levels of functioning. A rationalist reduces; groups →persons→cells→chemicals→matter. The whole is equal to the sum of the parts. Almostall levels of science believe is reductionism. b. Eliminative reductionism is the belief that all scientific talk about mind can be eliminated and reduced to scientific talk about body. The implied definition of the “person” built into eliminativereductionism is that a person is just a body.c. Biological psychologists are interested in cells because of eliminative reductionism. There is an analogy of a factory that can be used to explain a cell. Cells are all biological factories. The nucleus is like the office. It is in charge and tells the cell wheat to do and when to do it. All parts of the cell are embedded in the cytoplasm. This “factory” produced proteins. A protein is a long squiggle of building boxes of amino acids. Amino acids are the “raw materials” that are used to produce the product; proteins. Proteins are biological tools. There are many tools used in the functioning of a