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phrenology

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1800s
- one of the first attempts to map mind to brain
- evaluate bumps
- super incorrect, relied on anecdotal observation

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EEG : electroencephalograph

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  • Non invasive
  • Electrodes placed on scalp
  • Device that measures electrical activity generated by brain
  • Can infer wakefulness, dream or not, which regions of brain are active at the time
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Weakness of EEG

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Average activity that reaches surface of scalp tells us WHEN rather than where activity is happening

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What is neuroimaging?

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brain scans / imaging techniques that allow us to peer inside brain structure or functions

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Which neuroimaging techniques allow us to visualize brain structure?

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CT & MRI

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CT Scans

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Computed Tomography

  • Non invasive
  • Scanning technique using multiple X rays to construct 3D images of brain structure
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MRI Images

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging

  • Non invasive
  • Technique that uses magnetic fields to indirectly visualize brain structure
  • Measures release of energy from water in tissues after exposing
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What is the weakness of CT and MRI scans?

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show brain structure only, not activity

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PET

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Positron Emission Tomography

  • Functional imaging technique, measures consumption of glucose-ish molecules
  • Inject radioactive glucose-like molecules
  • Yield picture of neural activity in diff regions of brain in response to stimuli
  • Works cuz cells increase intake of glucose when active
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Which neuroimaging technique is invasive?

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PET

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What is the weakness of PET?

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invasive, was later replaced by fMRI

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fMRI

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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

  • Indirect indicator, non invasive
  • Technique that uses magnetic fields to visualize brain activity using changes in blood oxygen level
  • Brain cells require more oxygen when busy means increased oxygen in blood flowing to active brain areas
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Which neuroimaging technique involves changes in blood oxygen level?

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fMRI
-> visualize brain activity

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Which neuroimaging technique measures consumption of radioactive glucose?

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PET
-> shows activity in diff regions

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Which neuroimaging technique is good at detecting soft tissues like brain tumours?

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MRI
-> better than CT for detecting soft tissue

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Which neuroimaging technique involves using X rays?

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CT
-> constructs 3D images

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Default mode network

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regions associated with spontaneous thoughts (ex/ daydreaming)
Brain is active even when we’re doing nothing
Discovered by fMRI researchers

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What network did fMRI help discover?

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Default Mode Network

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MEG

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Magnetoencephalography

  • Detect electrical activity in brain by measuring tiny magnetic fields on skull surface
  • Non invasive
  • ability to track brain changes over super brief time intervals
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Describe the difference in time between brain changes measured in MEG vs PET and fMRI

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PET and fMRI measure brain changes second by second
vs
MEG measures changes millisecond by millisecond

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What are some misinterpretations of neuroimaging techniques?

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  • Assuming that functional brain images (like PET and fMRI) are actual photos of brain in action
  • Neuro seduction
  • There’s risk of chance findings cuz things get complex when comparing activity of hundreds of brain areas
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What is neuro seduction?

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Placing unwarranted confidence in evidence derived from brain-imaging studies

  • Do not assume the imaging techniques can read minds, or be more persuaded just becuz it’s scientific
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Functional brain images are not actual photos of brain in action, what are they?

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ex/ PET and fMRI

  • Photo is subtraction of brain activity of control task from experimental task
  • Light up means active, but dunno if neurons are inhibited or excited
  • Doesn’t allow definitive diagnoses of mental disorders (but can be helpful)
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What are genes?

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Sections of DNA that contain hereditary info

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Allele

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one of two or more alternative forms of a gene

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Homozygous vs heterozygous

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homo = when 2 alleles of a gene in the pair are the same
heter = when they diff

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Dominant vs Recessive allele

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Dominant allele attributes are expressed in a HETEROZYGOUS pair

Recessive allele attributes are masked and only expressed in the absence of dominant gene

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Genotype vs Phenotype

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Genotype is a person’s genetic makeup, or allelic combo
Phenotype is how genotype is manifested in observable characteristics

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Behavioural adaptation

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physical and behavioral changes that help survival, become better suited for envo
fitness - organism’s capacity to survive

30
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Monogenic vs polygenic inheritance

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a trait or characteristic is determined by

mono - one pair of genes
poly - more than one pair of genes

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Heritability

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proportion of phenotypic variance attributable to genetic variance

  • extent to which genes contribute in observable differences AMONG individuals
  • ranges from 0 to 1
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Environmentability

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proportion of phenotypic variance attributable to environmental variance

  • whatever isn’t attributable to genes must be because of environment
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Heritability + environmentability =

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1.0

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What are the 3 ways we can study heritability?

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  • family studies
  • twin studies
  • adoption studies
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Family studies

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Analysis of how characteristics run in intact families (blood relatives)

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family studies pros and cons

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pros
- useful for estimating risk of disorder among relatives

cons
- shared environment and similar genetic material don’t allow us to disentangle the effects of nature vs nurture

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Twin studies

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comparing traits of identical twins and fraternal twins

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What are twin studies useful for?

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can infer genetical influence

Share common environment, so if identical twins are more alike on a trait than fraternal twins, then we can infer it’s genetically influenced

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Identical vs fraternal twins

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identical (monozygotic) have 100% shared genes and placenta
- higher correlation between traits compared to fraternal

fraternal (dizygotic) have 50% shared genes, like normal siblings

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Adoption studies

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Assess the influence of heredity by examining the resemblance between adopted children and both their biological and their adoptive parents

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What are adoption studies useful for?

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genetical influence

  • diff environment, so anything similar between kid and biological parent is attributable to genes
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Potential confound for adoption studies

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selective placement
- may mess up study if kid is placed in similar envo

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What are the 5 common misconceptions of heritability?

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  1. Heritability applies to a single individual rather than differences among individuals
  2. Heritability tells us whether a trait can be changed by environmental factors
  3. Heritability is a fixed number
  4. Effects of genes (heritability) are really the same for everybody across whole population
  5. Heritability implies destiny and high heritability for problems implies the only hope is to alter genes
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Reaction range

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the extent to which your genes set limits to how much a trait can change in a new environment

45
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is it nature or nurture?

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both!
additive and interactive

46
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describe gene x environment interactions

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  • A phenotypic effect is determined by the interaction between the environment and the organism’s genetic makeup
  • Genetic differences may only be apparent in specific environments

&laquo_space;look at notes for depression and maze rats examples&raquo_space;

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Epigenetics

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Heritable changes in phenotype with no changes in DNA sequence (usually in response to environment)

How environmental influences the expression of genes

  • envo influences can turn certain genes on or off, impacts whether it can be read
  • life stressors & maternal affection very important
  • Removing methyl groups allow dna to be unwound and red
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What were the major findings on Szyf & Meaney’s studies on rats?

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  • envo influences can turn genes on or off, impacts if it can be red
  • the presence of maternal affection lead to nurtured pups, whose DNA were not methylated and can be read = more calm
  • removing methyl groups allowed DNA to be unwound and read
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Which technique: Electrical stimulation of brain and elicit vivid images / movement, allow researchers to see brain activity

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EEG
MEG

50
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Which imaging techniques allow us to see brain structure or function

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CT
MRI

51
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Imaging techniques that allow us to see how the brain’s activity changes in response to psychological stimuli

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PET
fMRI

52
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Why can’t many cognitive functions be neatly localized?

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cuz individual brain areas participate in multiple functions, so many parts of brain contribute to any specific task

53
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what do proteins influence?

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observable physical and psychological traits

54
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Can heritability change?

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yes
can sometimes change within individuals & over time in population

54
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If the voltage inside the cell is 60mV and outside is 80mV, what is the membrane potential?

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-20 mV

55
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When Na ions rush into the cell, the cell becomes?

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depolarized
aka more positive

56
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A neuron is hyper polarized during which stage?

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undershoot or refractory period (basically same thing)

57
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Without myelination, an action potential might
A) Be faster
B) Be Slower
C) Fade
D) 2 of the above
E) None of the above

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D (slower or fade)

57
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An action potential will occur if
a. The sum of EPSPs is larger than threshold
b. Neuron is in refractory state
c. Sum of IPSPs are larger than threshold
d. Neuron is hyperpolarized
e. Two of the above

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a

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If both parents are heterozygous, there are ___ possible different genotypes in their children leading to a ___ phenotypic ratio of detached to connected earlobes

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3 // 3:1 ← phenotypic ratio

59
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What kind of study would tell you about the influence of a unique environment on childhood obesity?
A) Family
B) Twin
C) Adoption

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Adoption

60
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If we reduce the range of environmental influences on a trait within a population, the heritability of that trait will ____ because ____

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increase, more of the differences will be due to genetic factors

61
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If we could magically equalize all schools and home environments to promote higher intelligence in children. What percentage of differences among them would be explained by genetics?

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100%

62
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What if we could magically change genes in the population so everyone’s genes had the same impact on IQ. If there were still differences in IQ between people, we would know that heritability has… [ increased / decreased / stayed the same ]

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decreased

63
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Darker skin produces more of the pigment called melanin that helps protect skin from sun damage. Which group is least likely to get skin cancer?
A) People with dominant genes for darker skin
B) Dominant genes for lighter skin
C) Recessive genes for darker skin
D) Recessive genes for lighter skin
E) Need more information

A

E

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