Divisions of Biopsychology
Study of the neural mechanisms of behavior through direct manipulation and recording of the brain
What is physiological psychology?
A type of study that involves a control group and experimental group that are treated exactly the same except for the one parameter being tested
What is an experiment?
What is the brain?
method by which scientists study the unobservable
What is scientific inference?
Procedure that was done in humans after only being tested in one chimp
What is the lobotomy?
Study of the psychological effects of brain damage to human patients
What is neuropsychology?
A type of study that looks at groups of subjects that have been exposed to conditions of interest in the real world
What is a quasiexperimental study?
What is "the evolutionary perspective"?
How researchers from different disciplines approach the same problem in different ways
What is converging operations?
Name of the man who was intelligent but could not remember anything past when he was 19 years old
Who is Jimmie G?
What is cognitive neuroscience?
The factor that is being controlled by the researcher in an experiment; i.e. what is different between the control and experimental groups
What is the independent variable?
This theme involves aspects of neuroscience relevant to curing diseases
What is "clinical implications"?
Process by which weaknesses in research are identified
What is critical thinking?
what Jose Delgado did to a bull to supposedly show that he could control aggression
What is shocking the caudate nucleus?
Study of the manipulation of neural activity and behavior with drugs
What is psychopharmacology?
An outside factor that could be influencing the results of an experiment
What is a confounding variable?
This theme involves new ideas about how the brain is wired
What is "neuroplasticity"?
Rule that the simplest explanation is probably the correct one
What is Morgan's Canon?
What was wrong with Mr. R, the brain-damaged student who switched to architecture
What is damage to right temporal lobe causing impairment with visual memory
Study of the biology of behavior by looking at different species
What is comparative psychology?
Generalizability is a big problem with this type of study
What is a case study?
This theme involves thinking about science you read in new ways
What is "thinking creatively about biopsychology"?
Process by which research is vetted before being published in journals
What is peer review?