Psychology
describes to clarify realization, actions, and social relations.
Empirical psychology is chiefly devoted to describing human experience
and performance as it really occur. Since the 1980s, psychology
has begun to scrutinize the relationship between consciousness and
the brain or nervous system. It is still not clear how these interact:
does consciousness decide brain states or do brain states decide
consciousness or are both going on in various ways Or, is consciousness
some sort of complicated 'illusion' that bears no direct relationship
to neural processes? Perhaps to understand this, it is necessary
to define "consciousness" and "brain state".
An understanding of brain function is more and more being included
in psychological theory and practice, particularly in areas such
as artificial intelligence, neuropsychological and cognitive neuroscience. |