Chapter 1

Question 1

Biopsychology

Answer 1

study of the biology of behavior

Question 2

Origins of Biopsychology

Answer 2

Hebb’s The Organization of Behavior (1949) & also a young science

Question 3

Physiological Psychology

Answer 3

• Direct manipulation of nervous system
  -mostly animals
  -focus on pure research
• lab setting

Question 4

Psychopharmacology

Answer 4

-Manipulation of nervous system pharmacologically
-focuses on drug effects on behavior
-drug effects change neural activity
-both pure and applied

Question 5

Neuropsychology

Answer 5

-focuses on psychological effects of brain dysfunction
-uses case studies and quasiexperimental designs
-applied

Question 6

Psychophysiology

Answer 6

-focus on relation between physiological activity and psychological processes
-uses noninvasive recordings from humans (muscle tension, eye movement, pupil dilation, electrical conductance of the skin)

Question 7

Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 7

-youngest division
-neural basis of cognitive processes
-noninvasive functional brain imaging
-interdisciplinary collaboration

Question 8

Comparative Psychology

Answer 8

-adopts comparative and functional approaches
-both lab and ethological studies
-includes evolutionary psychology and behavioural genetics

Question 9

Jose Delgado and the Bull

Answer 9

angry bull > bull charged > electrical stimulation > bull stop charge

Delgado claimed he found caudate taming center. Morgan’s Canon dictates a simple explanation should be supported.

Question 10

Morgan’s Canon

Answer 10

the principle that the behavior of a nonhuman animal should not be interpreted in complex psychological terms if it can instead be interpreted with simpler concepts

Question 11

Moniz

Answer 11

Cerebral angiography & Prefrontal leucotomy