What is Biopsychology?
The study of the biological basis of behavior
What is Biopsychology?
A phrase referring to the debate about the contributions of genes and environment to behavior
What is the Nature-Nurture issue (or "Nature vs. Nurture)?
This part of the nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
This field includes biopsychology as a subdiscipline
What is neuroscience?
This type of study, including a famous set of studies from Minnesota, help researchers estimate the heritability of traits
What are twin studies?
This structure, which connects to the spinal cord, regulates vital functions like heart rate and breathing
What is the medulla? (brainstem is also acceptable)
Biopsychologists sometimes conduct research on these because they present fewer ethical constraints and have simpler nervous systems
What are nonhuman animals?
This term refers to factors that can be influenced by experience, and can influence gene expression without changing DNA
What is epigenetics (or epigenetic factors)?
Under the skull, these protective layers surround and protect the brain. Inflammation here can be very dangerous.
What are meninges?
A researcher who studies similarities and differences in psychology across different species is engaged in this division of biopsychology
What is comparative psychology (or the comparative approach)?
The name of the process of DNA being transcribed into mRNA and then translated into amino acids which become proteins
What is gene expression?
The largest of the commissures, this large body of neurons connects the left and right hemisphere
What is the Corpus Callosum?
This is a division of Biopsychology that focuses on psychological effects of brain
damage or disorders
What is Neuropsychology?
Most psychological traits are not simply Mendelian (from a single-gene), but instead are described as this
What is polygenic?
This colorful structure in the Midbrain mediates the pain-reducing effects of opiates
What is the Periaqueductal gray?