Biopsychologu

Question 1

Fight or flight

Answer 1

Taylor et al tend and befriend
Gray - fight and flight doesnt tell whole story people freeze to avoid confrontation
Von Dawans er al - 9/11
Le and harley - genetic basis of the SRY gene on male Y chromosome

Question 2

Localisation of fucntion

Answer 2

Lashely - equipotentiality
Joseph dejerine - loss of ability to read resulted from damage to the connection between visual cortex and wernickes are
Harasty et al - found that women have larger brocad area and wernickes area than men so women have greater use of language
Dronkers et al - resamined the preserved brains of two of brocas patients

Question 3

Lateralisation

Answer 3

Rodgers et al - chicken find food and be vilifent allows one half of the brain to take part in something else
Tonnessen et al - found relationship between handedness and immune disorders suggests that dame genetic processes that lead to lateralisation may affect the development of the immune system
Szaflarski et al - langauge became more alterlised to the left hemisphere with increasing age in Children and adolescents but after age of 25 laterlisarion decreases with each decade of life

Question 4

Split brain researchers

Answer 4

Gazzanigs suggests that some early discoveries from split brain have been disconfrimed for example JW can speak out of right hemisphere
Andrews -
Fewer than 3 participants or one partxipant low population

Question 5

Plasicity

Answer 5

Kempermann et al - increased number of neurones in brains of rats housed in more complex environments
Maguire er al - increase grey matter in posterior hippocampi of taxi drivers

Question 6

Evaluation of functional recover after trauma

Answer 6

• tajiri et al - stem cells in rats
• age -elbert et al concluded capacity for neural reorganisation is greater in children than in adults demonstrated by the extended practice that adults require in order to produce changes
• schneider et al - patients with a college education are 7x more likely than those who didnt finsih college / 769 patients, 214 achieved disability - 39.2%, 30.8%, 9.7%

Question 7

Circadian

Answer 7

Hughes - tested circadian hormone release in four particiapnts stationed at british antartic station

• duffy et al indiviudal differecnes
• buhr et al temperature causes body clock

Question 8

Ultra and infra

Answer 8

• tucker et al - individual differences - 11 consecurtive days
• ericsson et al violinist
• penton and voak et al

Question 9

Endogenous

Answer 9

Morgan - hamsters

Folkard - SCN 25 days

Question 10

Exogenous

Answer 10

• skene and arednt - vast majority of blind people have normal circadian ryhtms
• burgress et al - jet lag
• vetter et al - artificial light