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Bio Psyc chapter 1

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Biological Psychology   The study of the biological bases of psychological processes and behavior.  
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Neuroscience   the sutdy of the nervouse system  
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behavioral neuroscience   the field of study concernced with the ways in which nervous system activity manifests in behavior  
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conserved   in the context of evolution refering to the trait that is passed on from a common ancestor to two or more descendant species  
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ontogeny   the process by which an individual changes in the course of its lifetime---that is, grows up and grows old.  
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neuron   also called nerve cell. The basic unit of the nervouse system  
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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.  
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independant variable   the factor that is manipulated by an experiment  
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dependent variable   the factor that an experimenter measures to monitor a change in response to changes in an independent varible  
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behavioral intervention   an approach to finding relations between body variables and behavorial variables that involves intervening in the behavior of an organism and looking for resultant changes in body struture or function  
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correlation   the covariation of two measures  
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neural plasticity   also called neuroplasticity. the ablitiy of the nervous system to change in response to experience or the environment  
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levels of analysis   the scope of experimental appraoches. a scientist may tyr to understand behavior by monitoring molecules, nerve cells, brain regions, or social environments, or some combination of these levels of analysis  
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reductionism   the scientific strategy of breaking a system down into incresingly smaller parts in order to understand it  
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dualism   the notion, promoted by Descartes, that the mind is subject only to spirtual interactions, while the body is subject only to material interactions  
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phrenology   the belief that bumps on the skulll reflect enlargements of brain regions responsible for certain behavioral faculties  
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