Psychology Group –Biological Approach presentations
Group 1 Handout on Dyslexia
1.
Describe the phonological model of dyslexia.
Name_______________
2.
What is a phonological deficit?
3.
Describe Tallel’s treatment program for helping language-impaired people.
4.
What does fMRI show us about the brain and reading? List 5 assumptions we now
make about dyslexia based on brain imaging… (Special note: IB loves to analyze
how the methods affect assumptions! fMRI technology opened up a whole field of
assumptions!)
Group 2 Handout on ‘Why are so many Women Depressed?’
5.
OK… Stats… Name em!
a. World Health Organization says that depression is a significant “disease burden”
among women and affects _________ of the female population.
b. Clinical depression in US women? ________ US men?_______
6.
Briefly describe what Lewis R. Baxter using PET scans found in analyzing
obsessive-compulsive disorder…
7.
Kenneth Kendler’s study… what did he find?
8.
Women are more susceptible to depression _______ puberty, and this
implies_____________.
9.
What is the relationship between stress, cortisol, and estrogen?
10.
Elizabeth Young found that spayed rats do not have
_____________________________.
11.
Seasonal Affective Disorder is _______ more common in women than men.
12.
Melatonin… Thomas Wehr found that women with SAD secret more melatonin in
the winter months than women without SAD. They were also more responsive to
natural light. Why is melatonin a factor?
13.
What is the relationship between social rank and serotonin?
14.
People that argue in favor of environmental causes (of depression) suggest that men
express a variety of ‘acting out’ behaviors like __________________ whereas
society teaches women to internalize responses to stress.
Group 3 ‘Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder’
15.
What are the symptoms of ADHD?
16.
Describe evidence that suggests that ADHD is genetic. (List the findings of these
studies: the Gillis study of twins and the Gjone study of twins.)
17.
What has been suggested regarding dopamine and ADHD?
18.
Explain what ‘executive functions’ are. List the 4 executive functions.
19.
What does Ritalin to do Dopamine transporters?
Group 4 ‘The Genetics of Cognitive Abilities and Disabilities’
20.
What is the genetic difference between Identical Twins and Fraternal Twins?
21.
Why are twin studies so useful when discussing genetics and behavior?
22.
The studies of verbal and spatial abilities among twins are correlation studies –they
compared the test data of one twin to the test data of the other twin. How much
correlation was there between the test scores of identical twins over time?
23.
How much correlation was there between the test scores over time of fraternal twins?
24.
Based on this data, would you expect sibling correlations to be more like the identical
twins studies or more like the fraternal twins studies?
25.
Colorado Adoption Project: Explain the findings in simple terms.
Group 5 ‘Emotion, Memory, and the Brain’
26.
Describe the sequence of the fear response: (First you see a snake…)
27.
Describe what emotional memory is.
28.
How did they get rats to become fearful of a tone?
29.
What does the amygdala do?
Group 6 ‘Interactions of Mind and Body in Behavior’
30.
What is a psychoactive drug?
31.
Briefly, how do scientists study the effects of drug on humans?
32.
What are endorphins?
Psychoactive
Drug
Stimulants
Examples (list 2
or more)
Effect on the
body/behavior
Depressants
AntiDepressants
Group 7 ‘The split Brain and the Whole Mind’
33.
Who was Roger Sperry?
Side effects?
34.
What does the Corpus Callosum do?
35.
What does the left hemisphere specialize in?
36.
What does the right hemisphere specialize in?
37.
What is cerebral dominance?
38.
What can we learn about consciousness from split-brain studies?
Group 8 ‘The effects of Mind on Body’
39.
‘Mind over matter’, cultural differences on expectations of childbirth, going to the
dentist… these all suggest that mental states can influence our perceptions of pain
and stress. Who was Selye, and what did he say about stress?
How does it respond to stress?
Effects on body?
Adrenal Gland
Pituitary gland
40.
What is General adaptation syndrome?
41.
What are the 2 ‘life events’ that are most stressful on the Holmes-Rahe life-change
scale?
42.
What is the placebo effect?
43.
What is psychoimmunology?
Group 9 The ‘Hereditary basis of behavior’
Term
Evolution
Gene
Chromosome
Genotype
Unigenic inheritance
Phenotype
Mutation
Nativism
Empiricism
Concordance
Evolutionary psych
Definition