Biological Approach to Behaviour

Over the past thirty years, few areas of psychology have developed quite so rapidly as _____ research. As technology has progressed, so has our ability to monitor and map out the brain’s activity. The brain is seen as the control center of human functioning.

Prior to the development of modern scanning technology, one of the most common ways to study the brain was through the use of _________ of brain damage.

• Case Studies

• Lab Experiments

• Field Experiments

• Observations

Often such studies provide researchers with a situation that they could never ethically reproduce in a laboratory. Case studies of brain-damaged patients are often carried out _________ - that is, over a long period of time - in order to observe both the short-term and long-term effects of damage.

• Short time periods

• Longitudinally

• Whenever they can

• realistically

In addition, case studies are often _________ in their approach, looking at a range of effects of the damage, rather than a single behaviour. In order to do this, case studies use ________. In the case of a patient with brain damage, this may include interviews with the family, psychometric testing – for example, IQ or personality testing, experiments and observations.

• Holistic, triangulation

• Triangulation, reductionist

• mediocre, valid

• valid, reliable

Recap: the idea that one brain area may be responsible for a function, and other areas may also take over the function

• localisation

• weak localization

• strict localization

• localization of function

Recap: the idea that there is clear correspondence between psychological functions and brain areas, and that all functions can be clearly mapped onto the brain.

• Strict localization

• Weak Localization

• localization

• Functional

Karl Lashley trained rats to run a maze to get food. He then removed parts of their cortex to observe the effects. His research is an example of _______

• weak localization

• strict localization

• localization

• experiment

H.M. - is famous in the field of psychology due to the nature of his situation. Research method used to study him was.....

• Experiment

• Field Experiment

• Case Study

• Lab Experiment

Answer explanation

It's a case study!

His case was unique to him!

Based on your PEN principle. Would you say yours was based on weak localization or strict localization?