PSYCO275 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Curare, Axon Terminal, Electrical Synapse

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO275
• Professor: Crystal Mac Lellan

Document Summary

Biopsychology: scientific study of the biology of behavior, perception, emotion, memory, etc. , are produced by brain activity, dates back to donald hebb: 1949, cartesian dualism. Body is a machine, soul is god given. Consciousness: is neither matter nor energy, we can only infer what it is. We can study certain aspects and infer others. Cognitive neuroscience: youngest discipline, human non-evasive, study of the neural mechanisms of human cognition, through the use of functional, used brain-imaging technology to observe changes occurring in various parts of brain imaging. Animal studies have to be done on humans too. Larger sample size the brain while performing memory tasks. Causal relations: direct cause and effect, have correlation. Critical thinking: becky, moniz and prefrontal lobotomy calm. Neuron: cells that receive and transmit electrochemical signals. Jimmie g: man frozen in time, 49 year-old believed he was 19, he forgot everything that was said or shown to him within a few seconds (anterograde amnesia)