BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
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Waking the P’s and asking them to speak immediately into a tape recorder about their dreams
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The stooge acted friendly and started to play with the items in the room
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96 scenes prohected overhead and mirrored to participants during scanning to allow them to see it while in the fMRI scanner
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Participants listen to a boring phone call after being in another experiment.
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Detailed explanation-1: -PROCESURE OF CANLI ET AL Brain activity was measured using an fMRI scanner, which measured blood-oxygen levels (Contrast Imaging). Three weeks after stage one, participants were tested in an unexpected recognition task. In the task the original 96 scenes were displayed along with 48 new foil scenes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The study used an fMRI machine (functional magnetic resonance imaging) which detects changes in blood flow in the brain to illustrate how the brain works during different tasks.
Detailed explanation-3: -10 right-handed healthy female volunteers. Females were chosen as they would be more likely to report emotional experiences and show physiological reactions to the stimuli. The self-selecting sampling technique had been used. Participants gave informed consent and were aware of the nature of the study.
Detailed explanation-4: -strengths: it explains the impact of natural human inheritance on human emotions. weaknesses: it fails to account for the differences people might show in their emotional experiences as a result of the different environments in which they were brought up.