PSYC 2410 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Ventral Posterior Nucleus, Medial Geniculate Nucleus, Caudate Nucleus

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2410
• Professor: Elena Choleris

Document Summary

Animal studies: fewer ethical restrictions, more expensive, can use comparative method, simpler brains / behaviour therefore more direct analysis, need to make sure it generalizes to humans. Human studies: directly applied to humans, more ethical restrictions, subjective experiences, cheaper, can follow instructions. Can show cause and effect, manipulate one variable (independent) and see if it effects the other (dependent) Between subjects: each group exposed to different conditions. Within subjects: each subject exposed to all conditions. Case studies, cannot show cause and effect, used when ethics won"t allow us to test what we want directly (e. g. quasi-experimental methods want to test effects of smoking, participants are people that already smoke) Physiological psychology: study of neural mechanisms of behaviour by manipulating the ns, mainly pure research with animals. Psychopharmacology: study effects of drugs on ns, mainly lab animals, applied and pure. Neuropsychology: study of effects of brain damage, human studies (case or quasi-experimental), pure and applied research.