PSYC 211 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 - Jan 25.doc

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 211
• Professor: Yogita Chudasama

Document Summary

Damage could be spread out: it is very hard to find control subjects; must find subjects with same comparison to actual tested patients. The focus is on the cognitive strategy the patient employs (brain dam- age often changes that strategy without lowering the score) Now perform language tests: language lateralization means that there is a specialization of function where one brain hemisphere performs more than the other hemisphere. Animals have to be trained to behave in a fash- ion consistent with the goals of the experiment: seminatural animal learning paradigms, animal exposed to a learning environment that mimics their natural environ- ment. Test assessing species common behaviours (iii): elevated plus maze - a test of anxiety and defensive behaviours, rats who are given a drug happily walk into unknown open space. Amount of time spent in open space is used as a measurement.