2.  What things do you have in common with your parents? Write down a few ideas on your handout.  Looking at what you have written down, are these things due to biological influences, or the environment?  Highlight in two different colours

3.  The biological approach combines psychology and biology to provide physiological explanations for human behaviour.  Biological psychology tries to explain how we think, feel and behave in terms of physical factors within the body.

4.  With regards to the nature vs. nurture debate, the biological approach falls on the side of ___________. VS.

5.  The biological approach explains human behaviour in terms of neurotransmitters, hormones, genes and brain structures.  What do you already know about these four things?  BRAINSTORM

6.  Using your textbook, find 3 types of neurotransmitters and what they are associated with. Write this onto your handout.

9.  How neurones work video clip How neurones work  In small groups, act out the way that neurons convey messages to each other

10.  Video – pinky and the brain Video – pinky and the brain

11.  The central nervous system is made up of two parts, the _____ and the _____ ____.  The two halves of the brain are called ____________  There are roughly ________ neurons in the brain and spinal cord. brain spinal cord hemispheres 12 billion

12.  Read the passage in the book, and label the lobes of the brain B C A Frontal Lobe Parietal Lobe Occipital Lobe Temporal Lobe

13.  Read the passage in the book, and label the lobes of the brain B C A

14. Left Side Speech Analysis Time Sequence Recognises Words Letters Numbers Controls The right side of the body Right Side Creativity Patterns Spatial Context Recognises Faces Objects Places Controls The left side of the body

15.  Clive Wearing Clive Wearing  Phineas Gage Phineas Gage

16.  Hormones  What are hormones?  What do hormones do?  Testosterone  Oestrogen  Adrenaline

19.  Genes interact with one another to produce an effect on behaviour.  Genes however, do not control all human characteristics because the environment also has a part to play.  We inherit 23 chromosomes from each parent, and it is thought that our genes can account for many of the similarities between family members.

20. Can you think of a family where many of the members have something in common? It could be a physical trait (hair, eye colour, height etc) or a personality trait or talent (music, running, annoying laugh etc).

21.  Do you think the similarities you have mentioned above are due to genetic or environmental factors?  How could genes and environment interact to produce a person who is good at football?  What about someone who suffers from depression?

22. GenesReceptor HormonesNeuron Synapse Central Nervous System Neurotransmitter Nature Nurture The endocrine system Lobe Testosterone