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| research intended to ring about some direct benefits to humankind |
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| the division of the NS that regulates the body's inner environment |
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| between - subjects design |
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| different group of subjects tested under each condition |
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| the scientific study of the biology of behavior |
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| study taht focuses on a single case or subject |
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| the outer layer of the cerbral hemispheres |
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| pertaining to illness or treatment |
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| refers to higher intellectual processes usch as though, memory, attention and complex perceptual processes |
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| the youngest division of biopsychology, most active and exciting |
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| teh study of biological processes by comparing different species |
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| deals generally with biology behavior, rather than specifically w/ neural mecham=nisms of behavior |
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| when there is more than one difference that could affect the dependent varialble, difficult to determine whether it was the ind var or the unintended diff |
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| different focuses are focused on a single problem in such a way that the strengths of one approach compensate for the weaknesses of hte others |
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| the fact that copulating male who beomces incapable of continuing to copulate with one sex partner can often recommence copulating with a new sex partner |
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| usual measure of brain activity is scap eeg |
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| the study of eanimal behavior in its natural enviornment |
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| thinking of enviornmental pressures that likely led to the evolution of our brains and behavior often leads to important biopsychological insights |
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| the degree to which their results can be applied to other cases |
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| severe memory loss, alocholics, thiamine deficiency |
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| surgical device used for lobotomy |
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| when there are several possible interpretations for a behavioral observation, the rule is to give precedence to the simples one |
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| the study of the structure of the nervous system |
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| the study of the chemical bases of neural activity |
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| the study of interactions between the nervous system and the endocrine system |
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| cells that receive and transmit electrocehmical signals |
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| cells that receive and transmit electrocehmical signals |
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| cells that receive and transmit electrocehmical signals |
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| the study of the ns disorders |
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| the study of the effects of drugs on neural activity |
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| the study of the functions and activities of the NS |
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| study of psychological effects of brain damage in human patients |
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| the scientific study of the NS |
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| division of biopsychology that studies the neural mechanisms of behavior thru the direct manipulation of the brain in controlled experiments (animals) |
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| large areas, left and right, at the very front of the brain |
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| a surgical procedure in which the connections b/w prefrontal loves and rest of brain are cut as treatment for mental illness |
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| similar to physiological psychology, focuses on manipulation of nerual activity and behavior with drugs |
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| division that studies the rlation b/w physiological activity and psychological processes in humans |
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| research motivated primarily by the curiosity of the researcher |
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| quasiexperimental studies |
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| studies of groups of subj who have been exposed to the conditions of interest in the real world, potential confounded factors not controlled |
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| the logical process by which ovservable events are used to infer the properties of unobvservable events |
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| a prefrontal loboty performed with a cutting instrument inserted thru eye socket |
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| a deficiency in the awarenes of parts of one's own body |
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| regulates reflex activities that are cricitcal for survival (hear rate, respiration, blood glucose level) |
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| animals with dorsal nerve cords (large nerves taht run along the center o the back) |
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| each group of 4 consectuive nucleotide bases along the mRNAstrand |
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| members of the same species |
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| the evoltion in unrelated species of similar solutions to the same environmental demands |
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| study of animal bechaior in the wild |
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| some characteristics evolved to perfrom one functionand were later co-opted to perform another |
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| production of the protein specified by a particular gene |
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| numerical estimate of the proportion of variability that occurred in a particular trait in a particluar study as a result of gentic differences to pehnotypic deifferences among subjects |
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| bhevarios the occur in all like members of a species even when there seems to have been no opportunity for them to have been learned |
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| development of individuals over their life span |
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| evolutionary development of species thru the ages |
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| each controlls a strucftural gene of a group of related structural genes |
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| one female forms mating bonds with more than one male |
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| one male forms mating bonds with more than one female |
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| peiod usually early in life during which a particular experience must occur to have a major effect on the development of a trait |
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| juvenile males begin to twitter subsongs, rambling ovcalizations refined |
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| genes that contain the information necesary for the synthesis of a protein |
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| carry sensory signals from the skin skeletal muscles joints eyes to the CNS |
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| towards the nose end (Front_ |
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| inside dura mater, fine spiderweblike stucture |
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| fourth calss of glial cels, largest, allow the passage of some chemicals from the blood into CNS neurons and in blocking other chemicals |
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| part of peripheral nNS that regulates the body's internal envioronment |
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| a neuron w/ two processes extending from its cell body |
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| small central channel that runs the length of the spinal cord |
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| the colorless fluid that fills the subarachnoid space, teh central canal, the cerbral ventricles |
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| networks of capillaries (small blood vssels) that proturde into the entricles from the pia mater |
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| neurons in agiven vertical column of neoortex often form a miniciruit that performs a single function |
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| neruons iwth short axons or no axon art all, function is to integrate the neural activity within a single brain structure |
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| 3rd class of glial cells, repsond to injury or disease by muliplying, engulfing cellular ebris and triggering inflammatory responses |
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| in CNS cluseters of cell bodies |
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| in CNS cluseters of cell bodies |
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