Everything that is psychological is first and foremost...
What is physiological?
100
The building blocks of the brain which constantly send electro-chemical signals to each other.
What are neurons?
100
The AIM of the first large-scale study on twins reared apart.
What is the aim to discover genetic heritability of behavior?
100
A main criticism of the biological level of analysis.
What is the criticism that it is too reductionist/over-simplifies things?
100
Suggestion for child-rearing
What is the suggestion that children need a stimulating environment?
200
The theory that convinced many people that humans are closely related to animals
What is theory of evolution?
200
This is why they say "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree"
What is genetic inheritance/heritability of behavior?
200
CONCLUSION reached in David Buss' study on mate-preferences around the world
What was the conclusion that mate-preferences are universal and therefore have an evolutionary cause?
200
Two criticisms of using animals in research.
What are the criticisms that it is unethical and that humans need to be studied in their social and cultural contexts?
200
A common application of BLOA in treatment of mental disorders
What is medications/electro-convulsive therapy/psycho-surgery?
300
The cultural development that made people look at the brain as a machine
What was the industrial revolution?
300
A system of chemicals spread out throughout the body which reacts slowly but for longer time intervals and was studied in Mazur's research on chess-players.
What is the endocrine system?
300
A researcher whose famous experiment used EEG to strongly discredit the notion of conscious free will.
Who is Benjamin Libet?
300
Three research methods used in BLOA
What are experiment, pseudo-experiment and correlation?
300
A suggestion for lifestyle change coming from BLOA
What is the suggestion that less stress/more sleep/staying mentally and physically active will improve life quality?
400
The assumption that allows the biological perspective to conduct research on animals.
What is the assumption that humans and animals are biologically, and therefore psychologically, very similar?
400
This main concept was investigated in Sperry's study on patients with split brains.
What is Localization?
400
Research method used in the Dement study on Sleep and Dreaming
What is Experiment?
400
A major weakness of using brain scanning technology in research
What is lack of ecological validity?
400
One thing that BLOA tells us about conscious experience
What is 0.5s delay / brain fooling us into thinking it's real-time?
500
A man who experienced a steel rod drill through his head and brain, causing his personality to change and showing the world the intimate relationship between brain and behavior.
Who was Phineas Gage?
500
This main concept was studied in the Rosenzweig experiments on rats in rich and poor environments.
What is Plasticity?
500
A study which showed how biological and cognitive factors may interact in sexual attraction
What is the Aron and Dutton bridge study?
500
An ethical issue in research on genetic bases of behavior
What is the ethical problem of power to choose humanity's future, etc...?
500
A study which illustrated one way in which biological processes influence social behavior
What is the Personal Space/Arousal in the Lavatory study?