Approaches in Psychology - The Biological Approach

Question 1

What does the biological approach combine to provide?

Answer 1

Combines psychology and biology to provide physiological explanations for human behaviour

Question 2

What does biological psychology try to explain?

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How we think, feel and behave

Question 3

What does the approach investigate (assumption)?

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How biological structures and functions of the brain impacts our behaviour

Question 4

Why may a biological cause of behaviour include?

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Genetically or environmentally altered

Question 5

What genes influence individual differences between people?

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Genotypes and phenotypes

Question 6

What system affects behaviour?

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Nervous system

Question 7

What can play a role in mental illness?

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Infections of the brain

Question 8

Natural selection

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Evolutionary psychology considers genetic influences in common behaviours through this process

Question 9

What are psychologists interested in trying to determine and provide evidence for?

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The extent to which behaviours or characters are the product of inheritance or environmental influences

Question 10

What do genes carry?

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Instructions for characteristics

Question 11

What does how characteristics develop depend on?

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Interaction of the gene with other genes and the environment (nature - nurture debate)

Question 12

The more a trait is influenced by genetic factors, the greater the…

Answer 12

Heritability

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What are genetics thought to influence the risk of?

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Mental illness

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MZ

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Monozygotic (identical)

Question 15

What percentage of genetics are shared with identical twins?

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100%

Question 16

DZ

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Dizygotic (non-identical)

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What percentage of genetics are shaded with non-identical twins?

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50%

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Concordance rate

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The percentage of pairs of twins who develop a particular trait or disorders

Question 19

What did Francis Galton say?

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“All natural abilities are inherited”

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Predisposition

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Being likely to behave in a particular way due to your genes however the environment mostly triggers the behaviour

Question 21

Frontal lobe responsibilities

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Thinking, memory, behaviour and movement

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Temporal lobe responsibilities

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Hearing, learning and feelings

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Brain stem responsibilities

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Breathing, heart rate and temperature

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Parietal lobe responsibilities

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Language and touch

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Occipital lobe responsibility

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Sight

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Cerebellum responsibilities

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Balance and coordination

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What are hormones?

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Chemical substances that help to regulate processes in the body

Question 28

What are hormones secreted by?

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Glands

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What do hormones travel to?

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Their target organs in the bloodstream

Question 30

Phineas Gage

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Survived accident where large iron rod went through his brain

Question 31

Phineas Gage personality change

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Changed from being sociable to being hostile

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What did Phineas become?

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Antisocial, bad mannered and had developed violent tendencies

Question 33

What do neurotransmitters entangle to function?

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The nervous system

Question 34

What can abnormal levels of neurotransmitters lead to?

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Symptoms of mental illness

Question 35

What is depression linked to low levels of?

Answer 35

Serotonin