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Psych Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Neuroplasticity | the ability of the brain to change through the making and breaking of synaptic connections between neurons due to genetics or environmental stimuli |
| Localization | The idea that areas of the brain have specific functions while other functions can be associated with several areas of the brain |
| Evolution | the influence of programmed behavior that drives humans to survive and protect their species |
| Pheromones | chemicals that presumably when released from one human or species can can stimulate and effect the behavior of another human being of the same species |
| additive influence | the joint influence of genes and environment on behavior |
| Lateralization | the function of the brain that are specific to a hemisphere |
| Hormones | chemical messengers of the endocrine system functioning through the bloodstream that affect processes such as growth and digestion and indirectly behavior |
| Niche Picking | a psychological theory that people choose environments that compliment their hereditary or genes |
| Epigenetic changes | the influence of environment that can create chemical marks on a gene and as a result influences behavior |
| Neurotransmitters | chemical messengers in the nervous system that are secreted by a neuron to affect another cell across a synapse to either stimulate or prevent a behavior to occur |
| Gene similarity | the influence that having the same or similar DNA has on behavior |
| Gene | a unit of heredity which is transferred from a parent to offspring that can be basis of behavior although widely affected by environment |
| Falconer model | that theory that one’s phenotype is influenced by genetics, shared environment, and individual environment |
| Scheel et al | Hormonal study testing the effects of oxytocin using the “Stop distance paradigm” and “Approach avoidance task” found that Men in relationships kept a greater distance and had a slower reaction time |
| Kendler et al | Gene similarities study examining the IQ of Swedish male siblings, one adopted away the other raised at home, and both biological and adoptive parents found both genetics and environmental factors played a role in IQ |
| Draganski et al | a neuroplaticity study looking at the changes in the brain after people learn how to juggle, found significant growth in brain matter, decreased over time after study |
| Curtis, Aunger, and Rabie | evolutionary study testing if disgust evolved as protection from disease, asked participants to rate 20 pictures and participants were more sensitive to disease salient pictures |
| Sperry and Gazzangio | localization and lateralization study on a split brain patient using images and words, found that the brains ability to produce words is from the left hemisphere and the ability to recognize faces is in the right hemisphere |
| Freed et al | a study on the neurotransmitter dopamine in parkinson's disease, participants received a transplant of dopamine producing cells, found that the transplant did hep especially on younger patients |
| Maguire et al | a neuroplasticity study that examined the brain matter of London taxi drivers and the correlation between hippocampus volume and the amount of time spent as a taxi driver, found a positive correlation for posterior and a negative for anterior |
| Hare et al | a pheromone study on weather two phenomena would effect mate perception, participants took computer takes involving “gender neutral facial morphs” and had to rate attraction and choose gender, found no effect on participants |
| Kaminsky et al | a study of the DLX1 gene, War twin vs. Lawyer assistant twin, war twin had a different DLX1 mutation and handled stress better, showed environmental effects on genetics |
| Scarr and Weinberg | Minnesota adoption studies, looked at gene similarities and the malleability of IQ, transracial adoption study looked at black children raised by white families, found more correlation between biological parents IQ than adopted, additive influence |
| Chiaco and Blizinky | 29 countries data, looked at different cultures collectiveness and the presence of the 5 HTT allele |
| Cutler, freedmen, and McCoy | pheromone study on weather male pheromones effect sociosexual behaviors of men, put them in after shave and found an increase in sociosexual behavior |
| Crockett et al | a neurotransmitter study on serotonins effect on prosocial behavior, used moral dilemmas, found impersonal responses were not effected but personal were |
| De Dreu et al | hormonal study on oxytocin’s effect on ethnocentrism, used images and moral dilemmas, found they were more likely to sacrifice outgroup than ingroup on oxy |
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