Bio Psyc: Chap 1 Word Scramble
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| Biological Psychology | The study of the biological bases of psychological processes and behavior. |
| Neuroscience | the sutdy of the nervouse system |
| behavioral neuroscience | the field of study concernced with the ways in which nervous system activity manifests in behavior |
| conserved | in the context of evolution refering to the trait that is passed on from a common ancestor to two or more descendant species |
| ontogeny | the process by which an individual changes in the course of its lifetime---that is, grows up and grows old. |
| neuron | also called nerve cell. The basic unit of the nervouse system |
| 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. |
| independant variable | the factor that is manipulated by an experiment |
| dependent variable | the factor that an experimenter measures to monitor a change in response to changes in an independent varible |
| 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 |
| correlation | the covariation of two measures |
| neural plasticity | also called neuroplasticity. the ablitiy of the nervous system to change in response to experience or the environment |
| 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 |
| reductionism | the scientific strategy of breaking a system down into incresingly smaller parts in order to understand it |
| dualism | the notion, promoted by Descartes, that the mind is subject only to spirtual interactions, while the body is subject only to material interactions |
| phrenology | the belief that bumps on the skulll reflect enlargements of brain regions responsible for certain behavioral faculties |
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