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Chapter 1
Vocabulary for Chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Biological psychology | the study of the biological bases of physiological processes and behavior |
| Neuroscience | the study of the nervous system |
| Behavioral neuroscience | the field of study concerned with the ways in which nervous system activity manifests in behavior |
| Conserved | in the context of evolution, referring to a 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 nervous 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 |
| Independent variable | the factor that is manipulated by an experimenter |
| Dependent variable | the factor that an experimenter measures to monitor a change in response to changes in an independent variable |
| Behavioral intervention | an approach to finding relations between body variables and behavioral variables that involves intervening in the behavior of an organism and looking for resultant changes in body structure or function |
| Correlation | the covariation of two measures |
| Neural plasticity | also called neuroplasticity. The ability of the nervous system to change in response to experience or the environment |
| Levels of analysis | the scope of experimental approaches. A scientist may try 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 increasingly smaller parts in order to understand it |
| Dualism | the notion, promoted by Descartes, that the mind is subject only to spiritual interactions, while the body is subject only to material interactions |
| Phrenology | the belief that bumps on the skull reflect enlargements of brain regions responsible for certain behavioral faculties |
| Consciousness | the state of awareness of one’s own existence and experience |
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