Issues and Debates (Edexcel A-Level Psychology): Flashcards

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Overview of Issues and Debates in Biological Psychology
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Aplysia californica neuron count

~20,000 neurons

Speciesism

Prejudice comparable to racism/sexism

Reductionism

Complex phenomena explained by simple mechanisms

Olds & Milner (1954) finding

Reward system stimulation created addiction in rats

Socially sensitive research

Research with social consequences beyond the study

Lombroso's criminal theory

Physical 'type' linked to crime, primitive humans

USA prefrontal lobotomies 1940s-50s

~20,000 operations

Maguire (2006) taxi driver finding

Differences in hippocampal areas (spatial memory)

Peter Singer's 1975 book title

Animal Liberation

Mass spectrometry use

Measures chemical composition of synapses/brain tissue

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