Key Terms From Ch1 Biopsychology

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Physiological psychology

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study of the neural mechanisms of behavior by manipulating the nervous systems of nonhuman animals in controlled experiments.

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Psychopharmacology

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study of the effects of drugs on the brain and behavior.

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Neuropsychology

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study of the psychological effects of brain damage in human patients

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Psychophysiology

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study of the relation between physiological activity and psychological processes in human subjects by noninvasive physiological recording.

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Cognitive neuroscience

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study of the neural mechanisms of human cognition, largely through the use of functional brain imaging.

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Comparative psychology

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study of the evolution, genetics, and adaptiveness of behavior, largely through the use of the comparative method.

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Neurons

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cells that receive and transmit electrochemical signals

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Neuroscience

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the scientific study of the nervous system

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Clinical

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pertaining to illness or treatment

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cognition

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a term that generally refers to higher intellectual processes such as thought, memory, atten-tion, and complex perceptual processes

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ethological research

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the study of animal behav-ior in its natural environment. Because two important areas

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Korsakoff s syndrome

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The primary symptom of Korsakoff s syn-drome is severe memory loss,