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Biopsych Chapter 1
Question | Answer |
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Dualism | The notion that the mind is subject only to spiritual interactions, while the body is subject only to material interactions. |
Consciousness | The state of awareness of one's own existence and experience. |
Phrenology | The belief that bumps on the skull reflect enlargements of brain regions responsible for certain behavioral faculties. |
Reductionism | The scientific strategy of breaking a system down into increasingly smaller parts in order to understand it. |
Levels of Analysis | The scope of experimental approaches. |
Neural Plasticity | The ability of the nervous system to change in response to experience or the environment. |
Correlation | The covariation of two measures. |
Behavioral Intervention | An approach to finding relations between body variables and behavioral variables that involves intervening in the behavior of an organism and looking for resultant changes in body structure or function. |
Dependent Variable | The factor that an experimenter measures to monitor a change in response to changes in an independent variable. |
Independent Variable | The factor that is manipulated by an experimenter. |
Somatic Intervention | An approach to finding relations between body variables and behavioral variables that involves manipulating body structure or function and looking for resultant changes in behavior. |
Neuron | The basic unit of the nervous system. (Nerve cell) |
Ontogeny | The process by which an individual changes in the course of its lifetime - that is, grows up and grows old. |
Conserved | In the context of evolution, referring to a trait that is passed on from a common ancestor or two or more descendant species. |
Biological Psychology | The study of the biological bases of psychological processes and behavior. |
Neuroscience | The study of the nervous system. |
Behavioral Neuroscience | The field of study concerned with the ways in which nervous system activity manifests in behavior. |