Biological Psychology

Question 1

What is the basic idea of biological psychology

Answer 1

The idea that the body and the mind are one

Question 2

Dualism

Answer 2

Believed that the mind is separate from the physical mind ( descartes

Question 3

Materialism

Answer 3

Mind and body are one

Question 4

Reciprocity of biology and experience

Answer 4

Environment impacts you and you impact the environment ( athletes are impacted by the crowds the same way the crowds are impacted by the athletes who are actually playing the game)

Question 5

What is a lobotomy

Answer 5

The deliberate damaging of the prefrontal cortex (1940s-1950s)
Left patients emotionally flat

Question 6

What is an EEG

Answer 6

Measure electrical activity in the brain
Is the oldest and least precise way to measure the brain
(Tracks brain waves)
When awake the waves are shorter, when asleep waves are longer depending on how deep into sleep one is

Question 7

Who uses EEG

Answer 7

For medical personnel this technology is useful for predicting and identifying the location of seizures

For psychologists this technology is used in sleep studies to map brain activity as we transition through various stages of sleep

Question 8

What does EEG stand for

Answer 8

Electro-Encepha-lography

Question 9

What does PET scan stand for

Answer 9

Positron Emission Tomography

Question 10

What is a PET scan

Answer 10

Depicts the brains metabolic activity as a three-dimensional map- these scans track sugar glucose
It is a vivid color picture of the brain showing different way the brain has been impacted by different components , (green, blue, red, yellow)

Question 11

How does a PET scan work

Answer 11

A patient is given temporary radioactive glucose and placed in a scanner which is highly sensitive to radiation

Question 12

For what do Medical personnel use Pet Scans for

Answer 12

When medical personnel use it they are using it to identify tumors in the brain

Question 13

When do psychologist scientist use Pet Scans

Answer 13

Use it to measure cognitive activity in the brain (the activity when thinking how to solve a math problem) in a pet scan the pet scan will highlight the part of the brain where a math solving happens

Question 14

How do MRIs work

Answer 14

Measure oxygen delivery to the brain ( when an area of the brain has been active, it needs more oxygen)

Question 15

When are MRI’s used

Answer 15

For medical use: Mostly used to pinpoint the location of possible brain damage

For research use: measure the brains’s use of oxygen while participants complete cognitive or emotional task

Question 16

Neuron are

Answer 16

The basic unit of our nervous systems

Question 17

What happens to unstimulated neurons?

Answer 17

They die off, use them or lose them

Question 18

What was the answer to the polling question

Answer 18

PET scan