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Card 26
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What is homeostasis? (AO1)
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Card 27
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A weakness of the homeostatic explanation is that if a hunger mechanism was adpative...(AO2)
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Card 28
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Researchers discovered that damage to the lateral hypothalamus(LH) in rats caused...(AO1)
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Card 29
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These opposing effects of injury and stimulation, lead...(AO1)
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Card 30
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A neurotransmitter found in the thalamus called NPY is also thought to be important in turning on eating, what did Wickens (2000) find?(AO1)
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Card 31
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What did Stanley et al (1986) find? (AO1)
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Card 32
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There is research to support the view that NPY has an important role in eating behaviour, from Yang et al (2008) (AO2)
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Card 33
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Real world applications have arisen from the LH explanation because of Yang et als study (AO2)
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Card 34
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The view that the LH was the "on switch" to eating turned out to have a few problems, for example...(AO2)
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Card 35
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Furthermore, Marie et al (2005) genetically manipulated mice so they did not make NPY, they found...(AO2)
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