Unit 1 Test Review Flashcards
Independent variables:
the difference between the control and experimental groups of an experiment. The variable changed by the scientists to test the experiments hypothesis
Dependent variables:
the thing being measured during an experiment (aka data).
Extraneous variables:
may or may not interfere with your experiment
Confounding variables:
if the outside forces interfere with your experiment and they impact it. (If extraneous variable has a result in the end where it has an interference)
5 Functions of the brain:
Sensation, Motion, Internal regulation, Reproduction, Adaptation
Physiological psychology
is the study of the direct manipulation of the brain and nervous system and focuses on pure research
Neuropsychology
is the study of the behavioral effects of brain damage and uses case studies and quasi experimental designs
Psychophysiology
focuses on physiology and psychology processes and uses noninvasive recordings from humans (muscle tension, eye movement, pupil dilation, electrical conductance of the skin)
Cognitive Neuroscience
focuses on the neural basis of cognitive processes (ex: learning/memory, attention, perceptual processes)
Psychopharmacology focuses
on the study of the direct manipulation of drug effect on the nervous system and behavior
Comparative psychology
focuses on the biology of behavior and has a comparative and functional approach. It includes evolutionary psychology and behavioral genetics.
What was the philosophy of Heraclitus?
Heraclitus’ philosophy was that “the mind is an infinite space where boundaries could never be reached”
What distinguishes biopsychology from the other subdisciplines of neuroscience?
Biopsychology is the study of both biology and behavior but is very broad and also diverse. In neuroscience’s case, however, they approach the study in a variation of ways instead of sticking to one specific way.
Which of the following animals are currently the most common subjects of biopsychological research?
Rats.
The comparison of brain-behavior relations in different species is called
Comparative approach
The term “within-subjects design” refers to experiments in……….
Refers to experiments assigned to the same subjects to the same conditions.
A major shortcoming of case-study research is that
A major shortcoming of case-study research is the generalization that can be applied to other cases.
Which subdiscipline of biopsychology is most likely to be identified with the assessment of the memory deficits of patients with damage to the frontal portions of the neocortex?
Neuropsychology.
Scientific progress is most likely when different approaches are focused on a single problem, particularly when the strengths of one approach compensate for the weaknesses of the others. This is called
Converging operations.
