PSYC 271- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 80 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Studies: experimental, investigate cause and effect relationships, multiple experimental groups undergoing different treatment conditions or the same group undergoing different treatment conditions, non-experimental, investigate individuals in real world situations, non invasive, human problem in human subject. Types of research: pure (basic) interested in only how things work, applied use building blocks from pure research to answer specific questions about human behaviour. *approaches can converge and hopefully explain the whole issue. This means the active parts of the brain lights up more than inactive parts. Image is delayed after activity is performed: functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri, works like mri but also measures behavior of blood cells in response to magnetic field. Pharmacological manipulation: drug administration, many substances are limited by the blood brain barrier. Measure chemical activity: autoradiography radioactive isotopes target a chemical of interest in the brain, cerebral dialysis small sample of chemical presence is measured.
