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Assumptions of the Biological Approach Flashcards

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What are the assumptions?

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Evolutionary Influances
Localisation of brain function
Neurotransmitters

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What is the assumption of evolutionary influances?

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Natural selection
People with the best genetically determined behaviour are more likely to survive and pass on their genes
EEA was 2 million years ago in sub-Saharan Africa
Genome lag

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What is the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptiveness?

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The environment that an individual is adapted to live in. Ours was 2 million years ago in sub-Saharan Africa

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What does EEA stand for?

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Environment of Evolutionary Adaptiveness

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What is genome lag?

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When adaptive behaviours still excist due to the environment changing faster than instincts

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What was the assumption of localisation of brain function?

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Different parts of the brain controll different things

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What are the lobes of the brain?

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Prefrontal
Temporal
Occipital
Parietal

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What does the prefrontal lobe control?

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Higher thinking and creativity

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What does the temporal lobe control?

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Auditory information

Memory

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Occipital lobe

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Visual processing

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What does the parietal lobe control?

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Sensory information

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What is Broca’s area?

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Speech production

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What is the assumption of neurotransmitters?

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Behaviour is controlled by neurotransmitters
Presynaptic vesicles
Synaptic cleft
Postsynaptic receptors

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What mental illnesses are linked to neurotransmitters?

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Depression

Schizophrenia

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What assumptions can be applied to relationship formation?

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Evolutionary influances

Neurotransmitters

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How can the assumption of evolutionary influances be applied to relationship formation?

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Want to date someone with advantagous traits to protect offspring

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How can the assumption of neurotransmitters be applied to the formation of relationships?

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We release dopamine when we see someone we like and in order to feel the hit again we seek them out for a relationship
Oxytosin gives us a desire to bond

A Level Psychology: C1 (Eduqas) (13 decks)

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