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Flashcards by Evie Horne, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Evie Horne
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What are the biological assumptions? | Evolutionary influences Localisation of Brain Function Neurotransmitters |
| What are evolutionary Influences? | Natural selection.. Adaptive characteristics |
| How do these affect a persons behaviourisms or characteristics? | They mean that a person will act in ways that will ensure the survival of their own gene pool. |
| What is localisation of the brain? | The way the brain is organised basically. |
| What are the names of the areas of brain and what do they control? | Parietal lobe - sensory information occipital lobe - visual processing temporal lobe - memory and auditory processing frontal lobe - thinking and crreativitive |
| what are Broca and Wernickes areas? | Brocas - affects speech production - language problems Wernickes - Unable to understand language |
| What are neutrotransmitters? | they are chemicals that send messages. They travel across synapses. |
| High levels of what neurotransmitter causes schizophrenia? | Dopamine |
| Low levels of what neurotransmitter causes anxiety? | dopamine |
| High levels of what neurotransmitter causes happiness | happiness |
| low levels of what neurotransmitters cause depression | dopamine and serotonin |
| high levels of what neurotransmitters cause love? | serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin |
| What neurotransmitters induce a fight or flight response? | Fight - noradrenaline flight - adrenaline |
| What was the therapy for the biological approach? | Psychosurgery. |
| the first modern psychosurgery technique was the pre-frontal lobotomy, developed in the 1930s as a cure for schizophrenia and other disorders where patients were aggressive and unmanageable. | Lobotomies involved destroying areas of the pre-frontal cortex that are involved in planning and free will, with the result that lobotomised patients became compliant, less aggressive and easy to control. |
| Modern psychosurgery. | very small numbers. |
| evaluation of psychosurgery. | high success rates |
| ethics in psychosurgery. | fatality rate 6% irreversible psychological harm afterwards informed consent was not always given |
| Positives of biological approach | scientific applications deterministic |
| Negatives of biological approach | nature v nurture individual differences |
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