PSYC 3010 Quiz 1 Study Guide- Questions and Correct Answers

Behavioral neuroscience the field that relates behavior to bodily processes Localization of function (example) concept that different brain regions specialize in specific behaviors, paul broca noted that damage to a particular region of the left side of the brain causes problems with speech production Research work of lashley and hebb lashley gave us the idea that memory is not localized to only one region of the brain. Hebb described how neuronal connections strengthen as a consequence of experience The future of behavioral neuroscience around the world, at one person in five suffers from neurological or psychiatric illness Epigenetics the study of factors that affect gene expression without making any changes in the nucleotide sequence of the genes themselves Gene expression the turning on or off of specific genes Within-participants experiment an experiment in which the same set of individuals is compared before and after an experimental manipulation. The experimental group thus serves as its own control group. Between-participants experiment an experiment in which an experimental group of individuals is compared with a control group of individuals that have been treated identically in every way except that they haven't received the experimental manipulation Correlation the tendency of two measures to vary in concert, such as that a change in one measure is matched by a change in the other Research objectives reflect specific theoretical orientations systematic description of behavior, the evolution of brain and behavior, life span development of the brain and behavior (ontogeny- the process by which an individual changes in the course of its lifetime), the study of biological mechanisms of behavior (an organism is made up of billions of neurons, or nerve cells Structure of neurons input zone ( dendrites receive information from other cells), integration zone (the cell body or soma integrates the information it receives), conduction zone (a singe axon or nerve fiber conducts output information away from the cell body as an electrical impulse), output zone (axon terminals at the end of the axon communicate activity to other cells)