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      Introduction to psychobiology and genetics
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      Introduction to psychobiology and genetics

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      Introduction to psychobiology and genetics book

      Introduction to psychobiology and genetics

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      Introduction to psychobiology and genetics book

      ByGraham Davey, Christopher Sterling, Andy Field, Chris Sterling, Ian Albery
      BookComplete Psychology

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      Edition 2nd Edition
      First Published 2008
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 17
      eBook ISBN 9780203783979
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      ABSTRACT

      Introduction Psychobiology is a subdiscipline of psychology that seeks to explain behaviour in terms of biological mechanisms. Psychobiology is also known as biopsychology, biological psychology and behavioural neuroscience. Many general textbooks have a section on (or even called) the ‘biological bases of behaviour’. This title is somewhat misleading. It implies that the biological influences on behaviour are a one-way street: that biology affects behaviour. In fact, an organism’s behaviour and its environment can in turn influence its biology. The use of the term ‘environment’ here refers to everything outside the organism. As we will see, the process of evolution demonstrates an environmental influence over a long period of time. In this section on psychobiology we will examine how both biology and the environment interact to produce and influence behaviour.

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