Research
A relationship between two variables
What is a correlation?
any thought process that you have conscious awareness of (or are potentially aware of)
What is cognition?
Use of pre-existing parts to form new applications.
What is Exaptation?
An electrical charge.
What is an action potential?
Lasting structural or functional change within a species that relates to a generic change.
What is evolution?
When each group of subjects experiences a different level of the independent variable.
What is between subjects?
neuroscience that is related to thought processes and emotions
What is cognitive neuroscience?
First appeared seven million years ago.
What are hominids?
Two variables change together in the same direction.
What is a positive correlation?
Was first present in homosapiens 200,000-300,000 years ago.
What is bipedalism?
The IV (independent variable) is biological and the DV (dependent variable) is psychological.
What is somatic intervention?
The study of the nervous system that controls all biological and psychological processes
What is neuroscience?
DNA morphing or changing into something different.
What is mutation?
When the IV (independent variable) is psychological and the DV (dependent variable) is biological.
What is behavioral intervention?
The process of neurotransmitters traveling down an axon and eventually diffusing across the synaptic cleft.
What is synaptic transmission?
Confounding variables that get in the way and were not originally accounted for and are known to disrupt results.
What is the third variable problem?
the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders of the nervous system.
What is neurology?
The first "communicators" to appear in single cell organisms.
What is GABA and Glutamate?
When each subject is exposed to each level of the IV
What is a within subjects design?
This occurred from 2.6 million years to 10,000 years ago.
What is the Paleolithic Period?
two variables that change together, but in opposite direction.
What is a negative correlation?
Relating physical and non-physical (i.e. brain and mind)
What is biopsychology?
Humans have more of these, allowing for a watery sweat.
What are eccrine glands?
A correlation between greatest climate fluctuation and greatest increase in brain volume in hominids.
What is change under pressure?
A fatty membrane holding molecules and neurotransmitters.
What is a vesicle?