Flashcards
PYB102
Cards in this deck (8)
- 1The problem with lesion studies are that: A. Patients are rare B. Damage is often not very circumscribed C. Plasticity D. All the aboveAnswer:
D. All the above - 2Independent Variable (IV)Answer:
Presumed to cause changes in another variable
often variable MANIPULATED by the researcher - 3Dependent VariableAnswer:
The presumed effect or outcome of the study
Variable that is MEASURED by the researcher and influenced by the IV - 4What is causation?Answer:
A condition in which one event IV (cause) generates another event DV (the effect) - 5There are three (3) main criteria for identifying a causal relationAnswer:
Cause (IV) must be related to the effect (DV) (relationship condition)
Changes in IV must precede changes in DV (temporal order condition)
No other plausible explanation must exist for the effect - 6PETPositron Emission Tomogrpahy
- 7MRIMagnetic Resonance Imaging
- 8A positive of TMS allows us to make causal inferences, but name a conAnswer:
TMS can only stimulate accessible brain areas which are close to the surface