PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institutional Animal Care And Use Committee, Behavioral Neuroscience, Central Nervous System

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Ethics of research: ethics- protect participants from psychological studies. One deals with humans and one with animals. Human subjects- irb: the irb are worried about protecting your rights: informed consent, confidentiality, and right to withdraw and debrief. Animal subjects- iacuc: the iacuc is responsible for excellent and humane care. They need to minimize pain and distress, consider alternatives and avoid unnecessary duplication. Animals don"t have a choice to participate so they need to be treated equally. Biopsychology: psychology- scientific study of behavior and mental processes, biopsychology- the biological study of behavior and mental processes. They study the brain because that is what controls your behavior and mental processes. Cells of the nervous system: glia cells- glue! When cells where first identified they were glued on a: neurons- the basic signaling cell in the nervous system. They receive and detect information, go up to brain, where they are stored to created part of a neuron.

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