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biopsych ch1
vocabulary, breedlove
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| biological psychology | behavioral neuroscience… the study of the biological bases of psychological processes and behavior |
| consciousness | the state of awareness of one's own existence and experience |
| conserved | in the context of evolution, referring to a trait that is passed on from a common ancestor to two or more descendant species |
| correlation | covariation of two measures |
| the ability of the nervous system to change in response to experience or the environment | |
| neuroscience | study of the nervous system |
| ontogeny | the process by which an individual changes in the course of its lifetime--that is, grows up and grows old |
| phrenology | the belief that bumps on the skull reflect enlargements of brain regions responsible for certain behavioral faculties |
| reductionism | scientific strategy of breaking a system down into increasingly smaller parts in order to understand it |
| 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 |