I was going to word the question in a longer version:
"Neuroscience madness: what patterns in the brain can we look for if we have not tracked the development of behavior patterns and then know the nature of true behavior patterns and how they function together -- some as proximal causes, along with environmental factors, OF OTHER behavior-pattern development? "
Are we really going to try to otherwise determine (without even reasonable phenomenology) what is happening in the brain, as it relates to behavior (BEHAVIOR PATTERNS)?? Please !!!!
You need ETHOGRAM THEORY first, obviously, to know key phenomenon and then maybe see what activity in the "black box" of the brain may have something to do with THAT (and eliciting at least key parts of THAT to 'SEE').
SEE: Brad Jesness and mainly:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Human-Ethology-and-Development-Ethogram-Theory , and mainly THERE:
Article A Human Ethogram: Its Scientific Acceptability and Importanc...
andBook NOW the nearly complete collection of essays (RIGHT HERE) _B...
Just because you don't know good psychology does not mean I DON'T or that YOU may not come to know it. Pick ETHOGRAM THEORY, a theory which expressly needs answers to hypotheses that involve directly observable overt behavior patterns (in key situations, in flux)(testable/verifiable hypotheses) -- these leading to the real behavior patterns you must know.
Unlike other psychology theories (the made-up "models"-type, the by-analogy-type, or the skewed basically mythical and untestable type) which pretend to pretty much "know it all" already (just look and evaluate them to 'see') and just want more weird variations of hypotheses answered, ETHOGRAM THEORY actually puts forth NEW questions, that need answers. REAL DISCOVERY OF NEW AND REAL THINGS. Actually scientifically open enough to look without presumption, based ONLY on Subject behavior [ ALL grounded, critically founded on key overt direct observables (and otherwise needing just one's imagination to retain/remember what you find and learn -- no harder than processing the poor near-useless theories you have) ].
P.S. A good psychology theory (when researched and verified) will ITSELF provide most of the knowledge (certainly the "lion's share" of knowledge we need from Psychology); truth is, WE DON'T EVEN NEED NEUROSCIENCE ! But there are now so many "out there" that need neuroscience for the pretenses and as a 'crutch', thus, I HAD TO ASK THIS PRESENT QUESTION.
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