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This chapter first tries to lay the ground for this book giving definitions and characterizations of “what is psychology?” and “what is the scientific process?” Second, it intends to give reasons why a psychologist should study neuroscience by offering a description of the relationship between psychology and neuroscience.
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Indeed, this leaves out the unicellular organisms where, to our opinion, the distinction animal vs. plant does not make much sense and it also leaves out organisms like sponges and placozoa that are on the brink between uni- and multicellular organization.
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Recently, the term “intelligence” has experienced a true inflation: People speak about emotional, social, spatial, and verbal intelligence. Finally it becomes to mean any ability that is not exactly a physical one. This does not mean that there are no reliable tests measuring mental abilities yielding reproducible results. The problem is to decide which test is the real intelligence test.
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Zeise, M.L. (2021). Introduction. In: Zeise, M.L. (eds) Neuroscience for Psychologists. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47645-8_1
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