Emotions and behaviour are product of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous and the endocrine system.
Patterns of behaviour can be inherited.
Animal research may inform our understanding of behaviour.
What are the principles of the biological level of analysis?
100
Laboratory Experiment
Case study
correlational study.
What are the three main research methods?
100
Neuroplasticity.
What is the brain's ability to develop and chnge in response to the environment.
100
Localization of brain function.
What is the process whereby different parts of the brain carry out different functions?
200
Strenghts: detailed information, rich data=high validity conclusions, triangulation, rare cases.
Limitations: it cannot generalise, research bias, ecological validity.
What are the strenghts and limitations of case studies?
200
Brefczynski-Lewis et al., 2007.
(the effect of meditation on the brain)
What is the study that was to examine differences in brain activity that might have resulted having engaged in meditation over a long period of time?
200
The case study of Phineas Gage.
What is the study whereby his frontal lobe was damaged and it affected his personality?
300
A)There is a risk that the participants knowing the full information might change their behaviour.
B)The laboratory experiment won´t be ethically possible if there is a possibility that the participant could be harmed.
What are the limitations to laboratory experiment?
300
The case of HM.
What is the case study that talks about who was affected with anterograde amnesia(the failure to store memories after or truma)?
400
Laboratory Experiment
What research method is use to the effect of change in physiology or to test the effectiveness of a new medication?