chapter 01 Flashcards

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Biopsychology

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studying the brain and how it influences human behaviour

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Physiological Psychology

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manipulate body-record behaviour, bodies response to behaviour or activity, change physiology, measure psychology

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Psychophysiology

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change psychology, measure physiology (ex. blood pressure, eye tracking)

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Psychopharmacology

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effects of drugs on brain

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Neuropsychology

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psychological effects on brain damage (ex. testing, diagnosis, treatment)

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Cognitive Neuroscience

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relation between brain activity measured by neuroimaging (ex. fMRI)

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Comparative Psychology

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comparing different species

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Evolutionary Psychology

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understanding behaviour through evolutionary origins

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Behavioural Genetics

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understanding genetic influences on behaviour

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Korsadoff’s Syndrome

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a condition characterized by severe memory loss and most commonly seen in alcoholics.

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The Coolidge Effect

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a biological phenomenon seen in animals, whereby males exhibit renewed sexual interest whenever a new female is introduced, even after sex with prior but still available sexual partners

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Lobotomy

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a type of brain surgery that became popular in the 1930s as a treatment for mental health conditions such as schizophrenia. It involves severing the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain

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Dualism

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the Body and the Soul - it is believed that these two things are separate from each other

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Renes Descartes (1596-1650)

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appeased both sides by asserting the universe could be understood in two ways: the natural world belongs to science and the mind/soul/morality belongs to religion - Cartesian Dualism.

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Cartesian Dualism

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the natures of mind and body are completely different from one another and that each could exist by itself - creted by Renes Descartes.

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The Seat

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the agent that exists at a higher level in the brain, an interface for the two planes to meet; it was believed the Pineal Gland was the seat of conscience and the connection between the body and soul; this gland is actually important for hormones

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Asomatognosia

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often involves damage to the right frontal and parietal lobes. e.g. can see the leg but doesn’t understand that it is part of the body

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Cerebral Achromatopsia

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no longer able to see colours and loses the ability to think in colour

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Monism

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a theory or doctrine that denies the existence of a distinction or duality in some sphere, such as that between matter and mind, or God and the world

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Ethology

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study of animal behaviour in a natural environment

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Charles Darwin Theory of Natural Selection

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all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual’s ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

Variation, Inheritance, Selection (Time, Adaptation)