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| reserach intended to bring about some direct benefit to humankind |
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| autonomic nervous system (ANS) |
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| the part of the peripheral nervous system that participates in the regulation of the body's internal environment (heart rate, blood pressure, pupil dialation) |
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| an experimental design in which a different group of subjects is tested under each condition |
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| the scientific study of the biology of behaviour |
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| studies that focus on a single case or subject |
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| the layer of neural tissue covering the cerebral hemisphers of humans and other mamals |
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| pertaining to illness or treatment |
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| higher intellectual processes such as thought, memory, attention, and complex perceptual processes |
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| the study of the neural bases of cognition (higher intellextual processes) |
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| the study of biological processes by comparing different species - usually from the evolutionary perspective |
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| the division of biopsychology that studies the evolution, genetics, and adaptiveness of behaviour, often by using the comparative approach |
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| the unintended difference that led to the observed effects on the dependent variable |
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| different approaches are focused on a single problem in such a way that the strengths of one appraoch compensate for the weaknesses of the others - the use of several approaches to solve one problem |
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| the fact that a copulating male who becomes incapable of continuing to copulate with one sex partner can often recommence copulating with a new sex partner |
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| the process of spotting weaknesses of exisiting ideas and the evidence on which they are based - carefully assessing the strength of the evidence presented to support an idea |
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| the variable that is measured by the experimenter to assess the effect of the independent variable (output) |
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| electroencephalogram (EEG) |
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| device to measure gross electrical activity in brain - commonly recorded through scalp electrodes |
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| the study of animal behaviour in its natural environment |
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| thinking of the environmental pressures that likely led to the evolution of our brains and behaviour - to the characteristics of current species |
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| a subfield that focuses on understanding behavour by considering its likely evolutionary origins |
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| recording images of the activity of the living human brain - megnetic resonance imagine for inferring brain activity by measuring increased oxygen flow into particular areas |
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| the degree to which a case studies results can be applied to other cases |
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| the one realavant difference between conditions that are being compared (input) |
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| a neuropsycholigcal disorder that is common in alchoholics and whose primary symptom is severe memory loss |
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| a sugical devise used to preform prefrontal lobotomies |
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| the arched-back, rump-up, tail-diverted posture of female rodent sexual receptivity |
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| the rule that the simplest possible interpretation for a behavioural observation should be given precedence |
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| cells of the nervous system that are specialized for the reception, conduction, and transmission of electrochemical signals |
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| the study of the structure of the nervous system |
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| the study of the chemical bases of neural activity |
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| the study of interactions between the nervous system and the endocrine system |
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| the study of nervous system disorders |
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| the study of the effects of drugs on nerual activity |
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| the study of the functions and activities of the nervous system |
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| the study of psychological effects of damage to brains in humans |
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| the scientific study of the nervous system |
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| the study of nerual mechanisms of behaviour through direct manipulation of the brains of nonhuman animal subjects in controlled experiments |
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| the large areas, left and right, at the very front of the brain |
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| a surgical procedure in which the connections between the prefrontal lobes and the rest of the brain are cut, as a treatment for mental illness |
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| study of manipulations of neural activity from using drugs |
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| the study of the relationship between physiological activity and psychological processing in human subjects by non invasive methods |
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| any brain surgery performed for the treatment of psychological problems (eg. lobotomy) |
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| reserach motivated primarily by the curiosity of the researcher - done solely for the purpose of aquiring knowledge |
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| quasiexperimental studies |
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| studies of groups of subjects who have been exposed to the conditions of interest in the real world - appearance of experiments but not true experiments because uncontrolled confounding variables |
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| the empirical method that scientists use to study the unobservable: carefully measure key observable events then use measures as a basis for logically inferring the nature of events that they can not observe |
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| thinking in productive, unconventional ways |
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| a prefrontal lobotomy performed with a cutting instrument inserted through the eye socket |
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| testing the same group of subjects under each condition in an experiment |
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| the dude who was frozen in time, 20 second memory - had Korsakoff's syndrome |
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| 3 dimensions of varying approaches to biopsychology |
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1. human or non human subjects
2. experiments or non experiments
3. pure or applied research |
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| 3 advantages of animal subjects over human subjects |
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1. simpler brains - reveal fundamental behaviour instincts
2. comparative advantages
3. can conduct research that is unethical for human subjects |
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| method used by scientists to determine causation |
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| 6 major divisions of biopsychology |
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1. physiological psychology
2. psychopharmacology
3. neuropsychology
4. psychophysiology
5. cognitive neuroscience
6. comparative psychology |
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