Biopsychology
- Created by: Daniel Smart
- Created on: 05-06-18 14:59
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- Biopsychology
- Localisation
- Broca's area
- Speech production
- Evidence from brain scans
- Phineas gage
- Contradictory findings using rats
- Plasticity theory
- Evidence from brain scans
- Speech production
- Wernicke's area
- Language compre-hension
- Evidence from brain scans
- Phineas gage
- Contradictory findings using rats
- Plasticity theory
- Evidence from brain scans
- Language compre-hension
- Lobes
- LH
- RH
- Broca's area
- Plasticity
- Taxi driver study
- Medical student study
- Functional recovery
- Neuro-rehab
- Animal studies - kittens
- Complex (age) - golfers
- Education improves recovery
- Forming
- Pruning
- Split-brain research
- Sperry - epileptics
- Research evidence
- Over-simplified
- Methodology
- Can't generalise
- Differences in hemispheric lateralisation overstated
- Sperry - epileptics
- Studying the brain
- ERPs
- Lacks standard-isation (background nouse)
- EEG
- Used to diagnose epilepsy
- PME
- Insight
- Ethical issues, causation
- FMRI
- Non-invasive, good spatial resolution
- Expensive, poor temporal resolution
- ERPs
- Circadian rhythms
- Siffre
- Aschoff
- Folkard
- Practical application to shift work
- Practical application to drug treatments
- Case studies use small samples
- Poor control in research
- Individual differences for S/W cycle
- Infradian rhythms
- Menstrual cycle
- Evolutionary value
- Methodology - confounding variables
- Self-report, lacks validity
- SAD
- Practical application
- Menstrual cycle
- Ultradian rhythms
- Stages of sleep
- Research support
- Stages of sleep
- Endogenous pacemakers
- SCN
- Chipmunks
- Ethical issues
- Can't generalise
- Hamsters
- Ethical issues
- Hamsters
- Hamsters
- SCN obscures other body clocks
- Chipmunks
- Pineal gland and melatonin
- Interacts with zeitgebers
- SCN
- Exogenous zeitgebers
- Sleep/wake cycle
- Method-ological issues (Campbell)
- Interacts with pacemakers
- Localisation
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