The study of Dement and Kleitman demonstrates an association between REM and sleeping. More participants recalled a higher incidence of dreaming during REM periods than NREM periods. There were some instances where dreaming occurred during NREM sleep but this is explained by assuming that the memory for a dream persisted for some time and thus appeared to occur during NREM sleep. The study also demonstrated that a link between eye movement patterns and the content of the dream. For example, one participant dreamt two people throwing tomatoes at each other
2. t = -3.15 describes the difference between women and men for what variable in this study? Is this value significant? Provide a rationale for your answer. In this study t= -3.15 describes the mental health variable and it is significant because they are the variable being tested. Since the p=0.002 value is smaller than alpha (a) that was set at 0.05 for this study.
6. Biological Psychology is the study of biological bases of psychological processes and behavior. Historical development of biological psychology, is explained by the fact that humans as well as animals can change according to environment, this is important in order to understand just how biology and psychology go together. This is an understanding that dates back to the ancient Greeks. Plato was the one that proposed that it was the brain that was indeed the organ of all reasoning.
Biological Psychology Name PSY 340: Biological Foundations of Psychology Date Biological Psychology The beginning of behavior, emotion, and thought all begin in the brain and this is the foundation of biological psychology. Biological psychology is the scientific study of the physiological bases of human behavior and mental processes. Biological psychology is also known as behavioral neuroscience and physiological psychology. Biological psychology focuses on the relationship of underlying physiological events and psychological processes. This form of psychology is involved with the mind-body dispute and researchers how they affect one another.
Unit 8 – M1, M2 & D1 – M1 – Analyse the contribution of these different psychological perspectives to the understanding and management of challenging behaviour – The Biological Approach – This approach aims to explain all behaviour and experience in terms of how the body processes. When you feel stressed this usually involves several sensations such as your heart pounding and your palms sweating, these are physical symptoms created by the nervous system reacting. Your experiences, such as stress are caused by a biological process. The nervous system is divided into the central nervous system and the autonomic nervous system which is further subdivided into the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches. The central nervous system the brain and spinal cord contain about 12 billion nerve cells/neurons.
3. Biology: Know parts of a neuron, the function and location of each type of neuron (motor, sensory, interneuron). Know how an action potential travels through a neuron.
Believe that people naturally seek out patterns in sensory information available to them. * Know the seven modern perspectives of psychology. Biophysiological perspective: perspective that attributes human and animal behavior to biological events occuring in the body, such as genetic influences, hormones and activity of the nervous system Sociocultural persepective: persective that focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture. Cognitive perspective: focuses on mental processes such as memory, intelligence, learning, problem soliving and
Physicians treat sexual dysfunctions in males and females using testosterone therapy in men and women. This therapy does help increase the desire for sexual activity in some cases. Viagra is used for men and usually is successful, the results of Viagra for women has not been as successful as for men (Nevid, & Rathus, 2005). As discussed before phases of sexual response cycle are excitement phase, plateau phase, the orgasmic phase, and the resolution phase. Each of these phases plays an important part of a healthy sexual relationship.
For example, some of the well known facts are that schizophrenia tends to begin in men/boys at an earlier age than women/girls; men who have schizophrenia generally begin showing signs of the illness between ages 15 and 20, compared to ages 20 to 25 for women. Additionally, men overall are less responsive to medication and schizophrenia also tends to have a larger impact on men than on women - the long term outcome tends to be worse for men than women. Researchers have hypothesized that estrogen may play a protective role in women against schizophrenia. Recent research also tends to suggest that schizophrenia is more prevalent in men than women - with women developing schizophrenia at a rate of approximately 50% to 75% that of men, overall. Women, however, have a rate of developing schizophrenia almost twice that of men for people over the age of 45 years.
They specifically looked at the dependence symptoms, driving after drinking, and productivity losses broken down by male/female and officer/enlisted ranks. This study showed that although men reported more binge drinking, women demonstrated the same or higher levels of alcohol dependency and were more likely to cause a loss of productivity in their work. Women also were at a higher risk of developing alcohol related problems than men. They concluded that the military needs to do a better job conducting preventative treatment when service members return from combat and recommended that physical and psychological health reassessments are given to service members within three to six months upon returning state side to help identify those members that may at-risk or who need to seek immediate