Biological Psychology Worksheet

Answer the following questions with 50-to 100-word responses. Prepare to discuss your answers.

1. What are the core assumptions of the biopsychological approach?






2. What historical disciplines converge to create biological psychology?






3. What are some of the earliest examples of a biological approach to studying behavior?






4. What are some examples of modern careers that have resulted from studying biological psychology? Include an overview of the careers.






5. How is biological psychology viewed by other professionals in psychology today?




What are the major underlying assumptions of physiological psychology?


What effect do these assumptions have on psychology?


What are some techniques or research methods used to examine the link between the brain and behavior?

What are some findings in biological psychology that can result or have resulted from these techniques or research methods?

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Prepare a 1000 wd. essay
Topic: Analyze biological psychology

Be sure to include the following areas in the content of the paper:
1. define biological psychology and its historical development
2. identify important theorists associated with biological psychology
3. Describe the relationship between bio. psy. and other fields in psychology and nuerosciemce
4. describe the major underlying assumptions of the biological psychology approach

Include at least three references.

Thank you

The paper is more like a current events article that has to do with biological psychology. you must choose 2 different articles going on that have to do with biological psychology. 2 pages per article are too be written. just explaining the article and what it has to do with bio/psych.

choose a biological psychologist that has done some thing big for mankind. the paper must be on who he was and what he did that was so new/ and strong for the biological psychology community.

The assignment is divided into two parts. (Each of which is 600-800 words) Basically 1200-1600 words total for both.

Part 1: Encompasses 3 activities, with a combined word count of 600-800 wo...rds

Characteristics of Scholarly Writing

Format: Short Answer

Word Count: 600-800 words in total (for the three activities)

Blooms Taxonomy and Constructing an Essay Plan
In the 1950's Bloom and colleagues, who were educational psychologists, developed a way to categorise the degree of abstraction required of people when answering questions. Within this cognitive domain, Bloom developed six categories ranging from 'knowledge' to 'evaluation'. Importantly, in Blooms proposed taxonomy, each category builds upon previous categories such that more is required of a person asked to 'evaluate' evidence than when they are simply asked to 'describe' the evidence. At university we most often expect you to evaluate (or critique) evidence. Therefore, it is necessary for you to know: 1) what is expected of you intellectually when you are asked to 'evaluate' the evidence; and 2) how to improve your essay writing to demonstrate this high level of abstraction. The following two activities are designed to further your understanding of the process. Before attempting them, familiarize yourself with the following article, reproduced in the Readings for Assignment 1 section of this Assignment Guide:

Granello, D. H. (2001). Promoting cognitive complexity in graduate written work: Using Bloom's taxonomy as a pedagogical tool to improve literature reviews. Counsellor Education and Supervision, 40, 292-307.

Activity 1
In Assignment 2 (Section A) you will be asked to write an essay on one of three possible topics. For the current activity, choose one of those essay topics.

Essay Topic:

Biological Psychology
Is marijuana a dangerous drug?
In your essay you may wish to consider:
The molecular events through which marijuana acts
Changes to the brain and behaviour as a result of marijuana use
Medicinal uses of marijuana



Having chosen an essay topic, use the information in Granello (2001) to outline how you will go about the writing process to produce an essay that is consistent with Bloom's 'evaluation' category. The focus of your response should be on the general principles of essay construction at the evaluation level (i.e., summarising the information in Granello, 2001). However, you will get the most out of this activity by using your chosen essay topic to provide specific examples of how you will apply the general principles discussed in your own essay. You do not need an extensive knowledge of your chosen topic to do this.

Activity 2
Construct a brief essay plan for your chosen topic, which demonstrates the evaluative essay principles you discussed in response to Activity 1. The plan can be dot pointed (in fact this is encouraged) and should fit easily onto a single A4 page.

Distinguishing Between Scholarly and Nonscholarly Writing ??" Note: I dont mind which pair is chosen.

When researching an essay question it is important to read widely, but to reference only scholarly publications. To help you determine what makes writing scholarly we have prepared four pairs of articles for you:

First pair
(a) Too sexy for the job ??" at the top, that is.
(b) Perceptions of power: First impressions of a woman wearing a jacket.

Second pair
(a) Ladies who lotto: The ranks of female gamblers are growing.
(b) Not the same: A comparison of female and male clients seeking treatment from problem gambling counselling services.

Third pair
(a) The attractiveness factor
(b) Attitudes and perceptions of workers to sexual harassment.

Fourth pair
(a) Beware beer goggles.
(b) Effects of alcohol on person perception: A social cognitive neuroscience approach.
(Note: All of these articles will be uploaded)

Each pair above consists of an article from a daily newspaper or magazine (an example of non-scholarly writing) and a corresponding article from a peer-reviewed journal (an example of scholarly writing). The term peer-reviewed refers to the fact that these articles go through a rigorous screening process before being accepted for publication. The process involves a review of the article by two or more independent (and anonymous) researchers, qualified in the area, who provide feedback on the quality of the experiments and theoretical propositions discussed within. An article will only be published in a peer-reviewed journal if it receives a favourable assessment from the reviewers. Therefore, an article will often need to be revised on the basis of the reviewer feedback before being acceptable for publication. This maximises the accuracy of the information provided.

Activity 3

Choose one of the article pairs listed above then compare and contrast the two pieces of writing for:
1. Purpose
2. Intended audience
3. Structure
4. Depth of knowledge
5. Accuracy of information presented
6. The use of citations/references
7. The ability to present alternative perspectives
Having completed this activity you should be aware of what constitutes scholarly writing when you go to choose readings for your essay (Assignment 2).




Part 2: Application of Learning Theory

Format: Short answer

Word Count: 600-800 words

The first two sections of Assignment 1 introduced you to principles of information communication. This section of the assignment addresses another skill that is just as important: applying the accumulated knowledge to a practical real world situation. Below you will find two scenarios, whereby the fundamental learning theories of classical or operant conditioning can be applied. Choose ONE of the scenarios to write up as directed. Note: I don't mind which.

Scenario 1

A colleague from New York once described the problems they had trying to rehabilitate users of crack (a derivative of cocaine). Users were taken from the South Bronx area, a highly urbanised and poor location, to the surrounding countryside for rehabilitation. The users were largely able to stop using crack and to maintain their abstinence while in the countryside environment. However, once the bus transporting them away from the rehabilitation centre crossed the Hudson River and neared home, many of the ex-users reported extreme cravings and most relapsed within 48 hours. Provide a classical conditioning explanation for why a stay in the countryside permitted abstinence and why the mere sight of familiar surroundings prompted drug cravings and relapses in these individuals. In your answer you may also like to discuss the link between this phenomenon and other observations such as drug tolerance and overdose. Note: To answer this question it would be helpful to have a basic knowledge of classical conditioning, which you can obtain from the Learning section of the Unit Study Guide plus the associated reading. The question also requires you to think beyond this initial information. The following reference has been included in the Readings for Assignment 1 to help extend your understanding in this area.

Siegel, S., & Ramos, B.M.C. (2002). Applying laboratory research: Drug anticipation and the treatment of drug addiction. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 10, 162-183.

Scenario 2

Sometimes inappropriate behaviour can be acquired through behavioural condition. Discuss how a childs tantrums might be learnt through operant conditioning. How could operant principles be used to bring about more appropriate behaviour? What other behaviours can be modified through operant conditioning and how? Discuss principles of reinforcement and punishment in your response.

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I need people who can answer the questions that I attached. Those questions are the thought questions of chapter 7 of the book named Biological psychology, 11th edition, by J.W. Kalat. I do not need a report or a essay format. Please answer the questions in short answer format. I need those answers to be your own answers. Quotations is not required but it will be fine to have some, just one thing, the quotations have to be from the book I mention above. All answers for the questions needs to be at least 500 words. Thanks.
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I need people who can answer the questions that I attached. Those questions are the thought questions of chapters 13, 14, and 15 of the book named Biological psychology, 11th edition, by J.W. Kalat. I do not need a report or a essay format. Please answer the questions in short answer format. I need those answers to be your own answers. Quotations is not required but it will be fine to have some, just one thing, the quotations have to be from the book I mention above. All answers for the questions needs to be at least 1500 words (I mean all add up together). Please states clear that which questions below to which chapters as I already label them in the document. You can do it like the format I did in the file.Thanks.
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I need a good current understanding of the following behavior: Temperature Regulation. Be specific rather than general as to the role of the brain. The book that I would like you to gather information from is Biological Psychology Tenth Edition by James W. Kalat. The class is Biological Psychology so I need the paper to have both biology and psychology mixed into the paper.

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Basically for the source you will be using Kalat's Introduction to Psychology. For the behavioral topic that I selected: Eating Disorders, the assignment is to write a 3 page paper in which you identify relevant research questions that might be asked by a researcher using each of the following three approaches: 1) Biological psychology approach 2) Social psychology approach & 3) Developmental psychology approach. For each approach be sure to clearly state what kind of questions could be asked and identify the basic methods that would be used. Please also include comments about the difficulties of these methods and identifuy a few questions that could not be answered using this approach.

SENSORY SYSTEMS DO NOT PASSIVELY RECORD EXTERNAL CHANGE, BUT INTRODUCE SYSTEMATIC BIAS INTO HOW IT IS REPRESENTED CENTRALLY.

ILLUSTRATE THIS STATEMENT WITH EXAMPLES.

CHOOSE ONE SENSORY SYSTEM AND DEMONSTRATE
1) HOW IT HAS EVOLVED TO ENHABCE OR SUPPRESS CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (E.G. BY LATERAL INHIBITION)
2) HOW "EXPECTATION" MODULATES OUR SENSORY EXPERIENCE "TOP-DOWN".

SOURCES:
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION TO BEHAVIORAL AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, FOURTH EDITION BY ROSENZWEIG, BREEDLOVE AND WATSON.

1 OR 2 OTHER SOURCES

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1. Gender Identity Paper
Prepare a 700 to 1,050-word paper in which you explain the interaction between hormones and behavior and how this interaction affects the determination of gender identity. In your paper be sure to also evaluate biological psychology and environmental influences on sexual differentiation and gender identity. Based on your evaluation, determine which has the greater influence.
Be sure to include at least three references in your paper from scholarly (peer-reviewed) sources.

This paper is for a Biological Psychology class. For this paper, I need to make an argument that amino acids can aid in weight loss. This cannot be an opinion paper, but must state facts and studies that have shown a greater increase of weight loss in the people using these amino acids. The main focus of the paper should be on the brain & biological mechanisms of action of the amino acids.Appetite suppression, boosting of the metabolism, and anything else that helps a person lose weight should be displayed as the result of an amino acid/ amino acids. I would included carnitine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, and all the other amino acids that may aid in losing weight. The inclusion of the brain & biological mechanisms that make these amino acids work is very important. I also need an abstract and a reference page.

The assignment is to write a review of a current peer-reviewed science article that will be sending. For the assignment, please write a synopsis of the scientific paper you choose, including:
1) the Problem being investigated
2) the Hypothesis ( what did the experimenters think would happen?)
3) the Methods ( How did they find out what they wanted to know?)
4) the Conclusion ( what did they actually find out?) and
5) Why do we care (why is this important?)?

The paper should be 3 pages double spces, and include the target article as a reference at the end (authors, year, title, volume, pages). I will send the article Moran et al., 2004, Neural correlates of humor detection and appreciation.

The course's accompanied textbook is titled: Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience 6/e (Edition 6), 2010, Rosenzweig, Breedlove and Watson.

If there are any questions please contact me via email.Thanks.
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WHEN A SPECIFIC NEUROTRANSMITTER EXERTS TOO LITTLE OR TOO MUCH INFLUENCE ON ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR, MALADAPTIVE SYNDROMES MAY RESULT.

1.ILLUSTRATE THIS STATEMENT WITH THE NEUROTRANSMITTER OF YOUR CHOICE.

2. WHAT TYPE OF DRUGS MAY CORRECT THESE DEVIANCIES? HOW DO THEY WORK TO DO SO AT THE SYNAPTIC LEVEL?

3.HOW MIGHT THE SYNAPTIC MACHANISMS RESPOND TO THE DRUGS TO COUNTERACT THEIR EFFECTS, SO AS TO MAITAIN HOMEOSTASIS?

SOURCES:

1.BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY 4TH EDITION BY ROSENZWEIG, BREEDLOVE AND WATSON.

2.NEUROCHEMICAL NETWORKS ENCODING EMOTION AND MOTIVATION: AN EVOLOUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE BY ANN E. KELLY (ARTICLE)

3.ANY OTHER SOURCE--BOOK OR ARTCLE

Topic: Cultural Diversity and Academic Achievement related to biological psychology

This paper will also need an Abstract and Conclusion with five sources provided.


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This paper should include the following information:
1. Brief History
2. Current trends or issues
3. Societal concerns or issues related to the topic
4. Significance or relevance of topic to the counseling profession
5. Any future implications
This assignment is according to APA Guidelines

Need a minimum of (9) sources.
These are some of the sources that need to be used:
Becker, Howard C. "Kindling in Alcohol Withdrawal Alcohol Health and Research World. Volume 22, January 1, 1998

Dams-O'Conner, K., Martens, M.P., & Anderson, D. A. (2006) Alcohol-Related consequences among women who went to lose weight.

Fishcher, S., &Smith, G. T. (2008) Binge eating, problem drinking, and pathological gambling
Klein, Stephen B., and Thorne, MIchael. Biological Psychology.

Klein, Stephen B. and Thorne, Michael. Biological Psychology (2007)

Penniton E & Kulkosky, P (1990), Alcoholic Personality and alpha-theta brainwave training.

Roberts, M., Fox, C., McManus, J(2001) Drink and Disorder: Alcohol, crime and anti-social behavior.

I need people who can answer the questions that I attached. Those questions are the thought questions of chapter 8 of the book named Biological psychology, 11th edition, by J.W. Kalat. I do not need a report or a essay format. Please answer the questions in short answer format. I need those answers to be your own answers. Quotations is not required but it will be fine to have some, just one thing, the quotations have to be from the book I mention above. All answers for the questions needs to be at least 500 words (I mean all add up together). Thanks.
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I need people who can answer the questions that I attached. Those questions are the thought questions of chapters 5,6, and 7 of the book named Biological psychology, 11th edition, by J.W. Kalat. I do not need a report or a essay format. Please answer the questions in short answer format. I need those answers to be your own answers. Quotations is not required but it will be fine to have some, just one thing, the quotations have to be from the book I mention above. All answers for the questions needs to be at least 1500 words (I mean all add up together). Please states clear that which questions below to which chapters as I already label them in the document. You can do it like the format I did in the file.Thanks.
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I need people who can answer the questions that I attached. Those questions are the thought questions of chapter 8 of the book named Biological psychology, 11th edition, by J.W. Kalat. I do not need a report or a essay format. Please answer the questions in short answer format. I need those answers to be your own answers. Quotations is not required but it will be fine to have some, just one thing, the quotations have to be from the book I mention above. All answers for the questions needs to be at least 500 words (I mean all add up together). Thanks.
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I need people who can answer the questions that I attached. Those questions are the thought questions of chapter 8 of the book named Biological psychology, 11th edition, by J.W. Kalat. I do not need a report or a essay format. Please answer the questions in short answer format. I need those answers to be your own answers. Quotations is not required but it will be fine to have some, just one thing, the quotations have to be from the book I mention above. All answers for the questions needs to be at least 500 words (I mean all add up together). Thanks.
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http://www.essortment.com/perceptual-psychology-nativism-vs-empiricism-16772.html
http://www.papercamp.com/essay/10192/Are-Babies-Born-With-Innate-Perceptual
http://facelab.org/bcjones/Teaching/files/Slater_1998.pdf
http://science.jrank.org/pages/5093/Perception-Innate-learned.html
http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-perceptual-development.htm
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0013188600030101
http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/re/itf09percmotdev.asp
http://www.talkingpage.org/artic012.html
http://www.livestrong.com/article/74546-early-childhood-perceptual-development/
http://www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/people/scientificstaff/mark/PDFs/Cognitive_and_Perceptual_Development

-use theories: theory theory, modular theory, and simulation theory
-talk in both top down approach and bottom up approach
-link to biological psychology(top down), social and developmental psychology(bottom up)


ecological theory
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibsonian_ecological_theory_of_development

theories:
http://www.cyrius.com/publications/michlmayr-tom.pdf
http://www.iep.utm.edu/th-th-co/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity_of_mind
http://www.lunarpedia.org/index.php?title=Modular_Brain_Theory

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This is for a Biological Psychology class so while it must be biology based it must also include psychology. This is the essay topic, so please respond to the following: Because the nervous system is made up of billions of neurons, supported by even more glia cells, they must communicate with each other. Describe in two pages your current understanding of WHAT TAKES PLACE AT THE JUNCTIONS BETWEEN THESE NEURONS ( THE SYNAPTIC GAP) AND WHY THIS PROCESS IS SO IMPORTANT IN UNDERSTANDING BEHAVIOR. Please provide specific terms and details.

Textbook in course: Discovering Biological Psychology Second Edition by Laura A. Freberg
Cite six major sources (Wikipedia does not count as a source)
- Cite two journal articles
- Cover page (See attached)
- Abstract
- Bibliography
Answer the following questions in the paper:
1) Who is the leading authority on the topic? Why is he or she a leading authority?
2) What impact does the issue have on society?
3) What does the current literature report about the importance of the issue?
4) Where is the current research being done on the topic?
5) Why should this topic be studied further and deeper?