BIOPSYCH

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  • scientific study of the biology of behavior
    biopsychology
  • other terms for biopsychology
    psychobiology
    behavioral biology
    behavioral neuroscience
  • time when biopsychology became major neuroscientific discipline
    20th century
  • played a key role in emergence of biopscyhology
    the organization of behavior (donald hebb, 1949)
  • developed the first comprehensive theory of how complex psychological phenomena such as perceptions, emotions, thoughts and memories might be produced by brain activity
    donald hebb
  • based his theory on experiments involving both human and nonhuman animals
    donald hebb
  • structure of the nervous system
    neuroanatomy
  • chemical bases of neural activity
    neurochemistry
  • interactions between nervous and endocrine system
    neuroendocrinology
  • nervous system dysfunction
    neuropathology
  • effects of drugs on neural activity
    neuropharmacology
  • functions and activities of the nervous system
    neurophyioslogy
  • mice, rats, cats, dogs and primates
    nonhuman subjects
  • can follow instructions, report subjective experiences
    humans
  • humans volunteer to be subjects
    participants or volunteers
  • study of biological processes by comparing to different species
    comparative approach
  • 3 advantages of nonhuman animals
    brains and behavior of nonhuman subjects are simpler
    comparative approach
    possible to research on laboratory animals when humans are not ethically possible
  • used by scientists to study causation and find out what causes what
    experiments
  • different group of subjects is tested under each condition
    between-subjects design
  • test the same group of subjects under each condition
    within-subjects design
  • experimenter assigns the subjects to conditions
    independent variable
  • variable measured by the experimenter to assess the effect of IV
    dependent variable
  • more than one difference that could affect the DV, difficult to determine whether it was IV or unintended difference, effect that is incontrolled
    confounded variable
  • Fact that a copulating male who becomes incapable of continuing to copulate with one sex partner can often recommence copulating with a new sex partner
    coolidge effect
  • Studies of groups of subjects who have been exposed to the conditions of interest in the real world, many variable + observation on the intervention
    quasiexperimental studies
  • Focus on single subject or very small number of subjects, comparative analysis
    case studies
  • The degree to which their results can be applied to other cases
    generalizability
  • Motivated primarily by the curiosity of the researcher
    Done for the purpose of acquiring knowledge
    pure research
  • Aims to translate the findings of pure research into useful applications for humankind
    translational research
  • Bring about some direct benefit to humankind
    applied research
  • Studies the neural mechanisms of behavior through the direct manipulation and recording of the brain in controlled experiments (surgical and electrical methods)
    physiological psychology
  • Focuses on the manipulation of neural activity and behavior with drugs
    psychopharmacology
  • Study of psychological effects of brain dysfunction in human patients
    neuropsychology
  • Studies the relation between physiological activity and psychological processes in humans
    psychophysiology
  • Youngest division of biopsychology
    Study the neural bases of cognition
    cognitive neuroscience
  • Refers to higher intellectual processes such as thought, memory, attention and complex perceptual processes
    cognition
  • Major method of cognitive neuroscience
    functional brain imaging
  • Focuses on the behavior of animals in their natural environments
    Compare the behavior of different species in order to understand the evolution, genetics and adaptiveness of behavior
    comparative psychology
  • Study of behavior in an animal’s natural environment
    ethological research
  • Different approaches are focused on a single problem in such a way that the strengths of one approach compensate for the weakness of the others
    converging operations