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Section 1 Flashcards

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Scientific study of behavior & mental process

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Psychology

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Anything you do

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Behavior

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A way to ask questions & find answers

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Mental Process

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Psychology ______________.

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Emerged from philosophy & biology

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Three levels of analysis (a.k.a Biopsychology)

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Bio: Genes/genetic expression
Psycho: Individual differences based on learning, fears, personality, etc.
Social (Cultural): Effect of the social/setting/cultural makeup

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Feeling as if you always knew the answer after finding out the answer.

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Hindsight Bias

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What are the three goals?

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Describe behaviors
Predict behaviors
Explain cause of behaviors

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More abstract

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Conceptual

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More Concrete

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Operational

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Types of descriptive methods

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Case Study
Naturalistic Observation
Survey

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Studies one person in depth to generalize others

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Case Study

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Watching and recording behaviors as they occur in habitat

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Naturalistic Observation

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Many people self report on their own attributes and behaviors

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Survey

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Systematically measuring relationship between two or more varriables

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Correlation

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Ranges from -1 to 1, and the closer to |1| the stronger

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Correlation Coefficient

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Types of correlation

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Possitive
Negative
None

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As one variable goes up the other goes up

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Possitive Correlation

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As one variable goes up the other goes down

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Negative Correlation

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No systematic relationship between variables

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No Correlation (None)

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Three possible correlation pathways

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A causes B
B causes A
A and B are caused by C

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Method where one variable is manipulated to see the effects on another

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Experiment

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Aspects of the experimental method

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Independent Variable
Experimental Condition
Control Condition
Dependant Variable
Random Assignment

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What the researcher changes or manipulates

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Independent Variable (IV)

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Where participants are exposed to the “treatment”

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Experimental Condition

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Where participants are not exposed to the “treatment”

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Control Condition

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What is being measured, assesses possible changes based on the IV

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Dependent Variable (DV)

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How participants are distributed into groups

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Random Assignment

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28
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The average of all observations

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Mean

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The central most observation

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Median

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The most common observation

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Mode

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What makes up the Central Tendency

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Mean
Median
Mode

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The difference between highest and lowest scores (subtraction)

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Range

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How far the scores vary from the mean

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Standard Deviation

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Variability

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Range
Standard Deviation

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The amount of individual variability within a group due to genes

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Heritability

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Useful due to genetic and/or environmental similarities

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Twin Studies

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How do you see the effect of genes if environment is the same?

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Compare identical and fraternal twins

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How do you see the effect of environment keeping genes the same?

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Compare identical twins and separated twins

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Relatively stable pattern of emotional responding and intensity

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Temperament

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Every non-genetic influence starting at conseption

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Enviroment

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Enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people, and transmitted from one generation to the next.

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Culture

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An understood rule for accepted and expected behaviors

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Norms

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Priority given to our own goals (vs. group goals) and definition of the self in terms of personal attributes (vs. group memberships)

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Individualism

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Priority given to group goals (vs. personal goals) and definition of the self is in terms of group memberships (vs. personal attributes)

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Collectivism

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A set of societally agreed upon characteristics that are associated with categories of masculinity and feminity

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Gender

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The biological makeup of an organism

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Sex

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Expectations about the social position and activities of those who are masculine and femmine

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Gender Roles

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Articulates what “ought” to be

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Prescriptive Gender Role

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Describes how things are

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Descriptive Gender Role

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Our behavior is shaped by rewards and punishments, and is molded after others in our enviroment

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Social Learning Theory

51
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Gaining a traditionally gendered (masculine or femmine) role

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Gender-typing

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Studies the link between biology and behavior

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Biological Psychology

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Nerve cells that make up the nervous system

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Neuron

54
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Gives the brain information from body/world

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Sensory

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Helps us move

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Motor

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Messengers for the brain

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Interneuron

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Chemical messengers that go from one neuron to the next

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Neurotransmitters

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The body’s communication network

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Nervous System

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Neurons must _______ before passing information

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Reach Threshold

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EXAMPLE:
Sodium in/Potassium out

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Sequential Depolarization

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Incredibly small space between an Axon terminal and another neuron’s dendrites

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Synapse

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_____ Sends info through the ______ via _______

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Neurons
Synaptic Gap
Neurotransmitters

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Neuron Demonstration

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Dendrites receive a signal (takes on possitive charge (Depolarization))
Transmits information down the Axson/a positive charge charge is released in sequentially
Neurotransmitters cross the synapse gap to beging process in another neuron

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Brain and Spinal cord

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Central Nervous System

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Sensory and motor system in the rest of the body

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Peripheral Nervous System

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Somatic

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Controls voluntary movements
-Sensory and motor inputs

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Automatic

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Controls non-voluntary (or automatic) processes (eg. Digestions and reflexes)
-Sympathetic and Parasympathetic

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Arouses the body

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Sympathetic

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Calms the body

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Parasympathetic

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The Somatic and Automatic systems

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Peripheral Nervous System

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Lateralization

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Brain controls opposite halves of the body

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Old Brain

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Reticular Formation
Medulla
Pons
Cerebellum
Thalamus

73
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Bundle of neurons that help transmit info, and is involved in sleep and paying attention

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Reticular Formation

74
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Involved in breathing and heartbeat

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Medulla

75
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Involved in coordination of movement

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Pons

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Also known as “Little brain”
Does many things including: Judging passage of time, aids in learning and memory, helps moderate emotions, and helps discriminate between sensory input

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Cerebellum

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Also known as the “Sensory Switchboard”
Principally sensory, and relays sensory messages from the brain to the body (eg. Move your hand when you touch something hot)

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Thalamus

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Lobes and Areas

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Frontal Lobe
Parietal Lobe
Temporal Lobe
Occipital Lobe
Broca’s Area
Wernicke’s Area

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Seat of Consciousness. Deals with logic and consequences. Doesn’t fully mature until mid-20’s

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Frontal Lobe

80
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Lobe involved in sensation

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Parietal Lobe

81
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Helps with hearing

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Temporal Lobe

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Almost exclusively about vision

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Occipital Lobe

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Production of speech/saying words

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Broca’s Area

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Comprehension of speech

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Wernicke’s Area

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The Cortex and Brain Functions

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Primary Olfactory Cortex: Smell
Primary Visual Cortex: Vision
Primary Audio Cortex: Hearing
Primary Gustatory Cortex: Taste
Primary motor Cortex: Touch, but movement related
Primary Somatosensory Cortex: Touch, but sensory related. Mostly associated with highly nerve dense areas (finger tips, lips, etc.)

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Limbic System

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Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
Amygdala
Pituitary Gland

87
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Linked to eating, drinking, and sex (rewards and punishments)

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Hypothalamus

88
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Memory

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Hippocampus

89
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Emotions and face regulation

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Amygdala

90
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Hormones (in charge of all glands)

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Pituitary Gland

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Ways to measure the brain

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EEG (Electroencephalogram)
MRI & fMRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

92
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Measures electrical activity in the brain

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EEG (Electroencephalogram)

93
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Accurate for time, but not location (in humans)

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EEG (Electroencephalogram)

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Images of blood flow in brain

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MRI & fMRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

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Accurate for location, but not for time

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MRI & fMRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

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