Biological Approach to Behavior
This human body system is most significant to the biological approach.
What is the nervous system?
Damage to the this part of the brain explains the problem of transferring short-term memory to long-term memory.
What is the hippocampus?
This part of the neuron receives the chemical message from neurotransmitters.
What are the dendrites?
Neurotransmitters travel down this part of the neuron before release into the synapse.
What is the axon?
Crockett et al (2007) demonstrated the effects of this mood regulating neurotransmitter on prosocial behavior.
What is serotonin?
Isolating one biological function that impacts behavior.
What is reductionism?
Unlike strict localization of function, this theory acknowledges overlapping functions in the brain.
What is relative localization?
Every time we learn something new, the neurons connect to create a new trace in the brain through this process.
What is dendritic branching?
What does the R in SSRI stand for?
What is reuptake?
Acetylcholine, important to memory, is one of these types of neurotransmitters that increase the likelihood of a neuron firing.
What are excitatory neurotransmitters?
The biological approach argues that biology and cognition have this type of relationship.
What is bidirectional?
This MRI technique was used by Maguire (2000) to measure the density of grey matter in the brain of London cab drivers.
What is Voxel-Based-Morphometry (VBM)?
When a synapse is not used or is under-stimulated, it may go through this process.
What is synaptic pruning?
The electrical impulse that travels along the body of the neuron is called this.
What is an action potential?
Neurotransmitter are considered endongenous ones of these substances that produce a response when binded to a specific receptor in the brain.
What are agonists?
The Biological approach argues that when genes interact with the environment, they are "turned on" or "turned off" in a process is known as.
What is gene expression?
What are procedural memories?
In the study by Draganski (2004) jugglers showed a significantly larger amount of grey matter in this brain area associated with visual memory.
What is the mid temporal area?
Neural activity in this system of the brain is critical in the fight or flight response.
What is the limbic system?
This study in 2011 used a sample of 28 healthy adult males to demonstrate that blocking acetylcholine receptors in the brain can affect spatial memory tasks in humans.
Who is Antonova?
In order to be holistic in their approach, case studies of brain damaged patients do this, looking at a range of effects and data, rather than a single behavior.
What is triangulation?
The results of Maguire (2000) revealed through pixel counting revealed that this part of the hippocampi of London taxi drivers was significantly larger relative to those of control subjects.
What is posterior?
Draganski (2004) was this type of study, therefore it has problems with internal validity as the participants were in their home environments for a good part of the study.
What is a field experiment?
After crossing the synapse, the neurotransmitters fit like a key in a lock into these on the post-synaptic membrane.
What are receptor sites?
By blocking acetylcholine receptor sites this drug acts like an antagonist.
What is scopolomine?