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| the study of the biological basis of behavior / the scientific study of the biology of behavior |
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| What are other terms of reference for biopsychology? |
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| psychobiology, behavioral biology or behavioral neuroscience. |
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| the understanding that the brain is a plastic organ, capable of changing in response to genetic programs and experiences |
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| The organization of Behaviour was authored by? |
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| What are the other disciplines of neuroscience that biopsychology have a special relationship with? |
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| neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neuroendocrinology, neuropharmacology, and neurophysiology |
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| The study of the functions and activities of the nervous system is termed: |
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| the study of the chemical bases of neural activity |
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| the study of the interactions between the nervous system and the endocrine system |
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| the study of the effects of drugs on neural activty |
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| The study of nervous system disorders is termed: |
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| The study of the structure of the nervous system is termed: |
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| cells that receive and transmit electrochemical signals |
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| How do our brains differ from other mammals? |
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| Quantitative / in terms of size and cortical development |
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| ________ ________ are unintended differences between conditions that can influence the dependent variable |
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| the arched-back, rump-up, tail-diverted posture of female rodent sexual receptivity is called what? |
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| When are non-experimental methods used instead of experimental? |
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| When there are physical or ethical impediments to using the experimental methods |
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| an experimental design where different groups of subjects are tested under each treatment condition is referred to as: |
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| Quasiexperiments are not real experiments b/c potential ______ ______ have not been controlled for |
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| A major problem with case studies is __________ |
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| generalizability: the degree to which results can be applied to other cases |
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| _______ research is motivated primarily by the curiosity of the researcher. |
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| What are the 6 major divisions of biopsychology? |
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| physiological psychology, psychopharmacology, neuropsychology, psychophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, and comparative psychology |
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| 1. study of brain-behavior relationships by directly manipulating the nervous system through, but not limited to, the use of lesion techniques or invasive recording of brain activity |
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| focuses on the manipulation of neural activity and behavior with drugs / focuses on how drugs effect behavior and the how these changes are mediated by neural activity |
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| _________ is the study of the psychological effects of brain damage in human patients |
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| _______ is the study of the relationship between physiology and psychological processes |
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| What is the division of biopsychology that focuses on the neural basis of cognitive processes called? |
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| ________ _________ compare the behavior of different species in order to understand the evolution, genetics, and adaptiveness of behavior |
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| Comparative psychologists |
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| logical process by which observable events are used to infer the properties of unobservable events |
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| When several explanations are possible, give precedence to the simplest one --- this is called _______ ________ |
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| the general intellectual climate of our culture |
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| behaviors that occur in all like members of a species,even when there seems to have been no opportunity for them to have been learned |
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| the father of Behaviorism |
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| ____________ is a deficiency in the awareness of parts of ones own body |
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| A ________ is a group of organisms that is reproductively isolated from other organism |
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| members of the same species |
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| animals with a dorsal nerve cord are called ________ |
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| incidental non-adaptive evolutionary by-products are called ________. give an example |
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| spandrels e.g. human belly button, etc |
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| some characteristics, called ____________, evolved to perform one function and were later co-opted to perform another |
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| exaptations e.g. bird wings were once used for walking |
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| Structures that are similar because they have a common evolutionary origin are termed ____________ |
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| structures that are similar but do not have a common evolutionary origin are termed ____________ |
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| the evolution in unrelated species of similar solutions to the same environmental demands |
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| folds on the cerebral surface |
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| Regarding human brain evolution, most of the increase in brain size has occurred in the _________. |
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| The pattern of mate bonding that is most prevalent in mammals is __________, what does this mean? |
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| polygyny; an arrangement in which one male forms mating bonds with more than one female |
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| _________ is a mating arrangement in which one female forms mating bonds with more than one male |
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| are traits that occur in one form or the other, never in combination |
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| ___-______ _______ are breeding lines in which interbred members always produce offspring with the same trait generation after generation |
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