These are designed to investigate relationships between variables through passive observation.
What is correlational studies?
100
This method takes a 2-D x-ray slice from a given angle and flips through them to get a 3-d picture of the brain.
What is CT?
100
This method uses radioactive 2-deoxglucose that is injected into the brain and taken up differently depending on a task a person does.
What is a PET scan?
100
Stereotaxic techniques require a carefully mapped coordinate system called....
What is a stereotaxic atlas?
100
This is a noninvasive kind of stimulation using a localized electrical current that's generated by a rapidly changing magnetic field.
What is TMS or Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?
200
These types of studies permit investigators to determine causal relationships.
What is experimental?
200
This involves the measurement of radio frequency waves emitted by the nuclei if hydrogen atoms as they are exposed to a strong magnetic field?
What is an MRI?
200
fMRI allows you to see function depending on the amount of ______ going to a particular brain area.
What is oxygen?
200
This is when you remove tissues.
What is ablation?
200
_____ of a particular neurotransmitter increase the effect while ____ of a particular neurotransmitter reduce the effect of the neurotransmitter.
What are agonists and antagonists, respectively?
300
These types of procedures disturb the integrity of the body.
What are invasive?
300
Both CTs and MRIs can be used to _______ different issues and conditions.
What is diagnose?
300
This measures electrical potential differences from the brain surface.
What is EEG?
300
Commissurotomy was done of patients with severe ______, studying sensory information directed to one side or the other.
What is epilepsy?
300
______ is the presence of the same trait in both members of a pair of twins.
What is the concordance rate?
400
________ is the extent to which your measure responds promptly to changes that occur over time
What is temporal?
400
This shows the connective tissue of the brain.
What is DTI or Diffusion Tensor Imaging?
400
______ is an application of EEG use in research---how to record brain waves in response to a stimulus.
What is ERP or evoked potential?
400
Lesion is when you....
What is damage something?
400
Adoption studies.....
What is compare similarity between child and bio vs. adoptive parents?
500
When it is desirable to study a topic using more than one of these types of measures, it is called...
What are convergent measures?
500
DTI takes into account that ______ naturally move, and their movement will be constrained when they are inside myelin.
What are water molecules?
500
Emotional arousal is sometimes measured using________
What is SCR or skin conductance?
500
Penfield was the first to use this method, inserting electrodes deep into the human brain to map it out.
What is stimulation studies?
500
_______ animals contain genes from different organisms---genes are inserted into a developing embryo and the selected genes will be expressed by some offspring.