Ethics
Permission for something to happen or agreement to do something
What is consent?
The ability for the brain structure to adapt and change over time.
This is the space between the axon of a neuron and the dendrite of another that is used to pass information between the neurons?
What is the synaptic gap?
This brain scanning technique excites hydrogen particles inside the brain until the produce a magnetic pulse that is picked up by a magnet inside of a machine.
What is an MRI?
1=A+E+C
This is the process of using or creating data in research that does not accurately reflect the findings.
What is data fabrication?
What is localization?
This study was researching 30 healthy subjects given either SSRIs or placebos and were given a series of moral dilemmas. Results showed that people who took the SSRI were less likely to choose the utilitarian option in personal scenarios (pushing someone off a bridge versus pulling the lever).
What is an fMRI
This is the idea that both biological factors and environmental factors influence behavior.
What is nature versus nurture?
A study done in 1920 to test a baby's response to scary stimuli in response to certain actions. The babies were unable to give consent to participating ion this study.
What is Watson and Reyner (1920)?
What is Maguire et al (2000)?
This study is known as the "sweaty t-shirt study", where women were then asked to smell the shirts. The study showed that women were more attracted to men with an MHC most different from theirs.
What is Wedekind et al (1995)?
This brain scanning technique has a patient ingest a radioactive tracero used visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes.
What is a PET scan?
This study looks into IQ correlation of monozygotic versus dizygotic twins raised either apart or together. Monozygotic twins raised together had the highest correlation in IQ levels.
What is Bouchard et al (1990)?
The possible justification for the methods, such as general benefit of society or growth of knowledge, versus the potential breaching of rights.
What is cost-benefit analysis?
What is Merzenich et al (1984)?
This study involved giving 128 healthy male students either a placebo or a dose of oxytocin and then would play a game involving trust where you would play as an investor or investee.
What is Kosfeld et al (2005)?
This study employed an fMRI to measure amounts of gray matter in the brains of participants who had been practicing juggling for different amounts of time, or did not learn to juggle at all.
What is Draganski et al (2004)?
Conducted the transracial adoption study and the adolescent adoption study. These are known in a pair as the Minnesota adoption study.
What is Scarr and Weinberg (1983)?
This study had researchers perform an operation to transplant aborted embryo cells into the brains of parkinsons patients, and to control to control for the placebo effect, another group was given a sham surgery.
What is Freed et al (2001)?
What is the homunculus?
What is the structure that is present in mammals to detect phermonal information (that is not connected to the brain in humans or not present).
What is the domeronasal organ?
This technique was used by researchers in Fisher, Aaron, and Brown (2005) to measure activity in different parts of the brain when participants were exposed to either loved ones versus acquaintances.
What is an fMRI?
This study used male Swedish sibling sets where they were either reared by biological parents and separated and reared by adopted parents to find a correlation in IQ levels between their guardian and the siblings.
What is Kendler et al (2015)?