What is the difference between biological and cognitive psychology ?
Was wondering. Thanks ;)
Sorry. I’m just looking for the main differences between them , not about therapy.
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naps with cats said,
Wrote on August 24, 2010 @ 9:04 pm
Biological therapy/psychology would include medicine (which an M.D. would have to prescribe)
Cognitive therapy is to get your mind focused on the positive and to turn negatives into positives.
W said,
Wrote on August 24, 2010 @ 9:28 pm
Biological psychology is looking at the biological substrates of behavior. It looks at how brain structure, chemistry, activity etc. relates to behavior.
Cognitive psychology isn’t so interested in the biology going on, but in the way the brain processes information. Cognitive psychologists often compare the brain to a black box. They put information in to be processed and then see what the brain does with it. By looking at the info going in and the result coming out they make deductions about the process that this info is put through in the brain.
To compare the brain to a computer, the biological psychologist would be looking at the hardware of it and seeing how it works that way. A cognitive psychologist would be giving the computer a bunch of tasks to do and then making inferences about how the computer works by the way it handles those tasks.