Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Institutional Review Board, Reticular Formation, Peripheral Nervous System
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Individuals participating in a study must be capable of making decisions about themselves: beneficence: researchers must secure their well-being, respect their decisions and protect them from harm. Justice: fairness in distribution or what is deserved. Informed consent: subjects remain anonymous, research ethics boards (institutional review board) must review studies and approve all research conducted on humans, based on tri-council policy statement, tri-council policy statement sets the standard for research ethics boards in canada. Week 2: maladjusted mind: cortisol and prolactin are elevated in people with depression, anxiety, and others. Neurohormones and neurotransmitters: communication in the nervous system is both electrical and chemical, neurotransmitters chemical substances that relay electrical signals between one neuron and the next, drug treatment, depression and serotonin (ssris) Identifies increases in blood flow that are associated with increases in neural activity: can isolate specific brain activity in response to an event or stimulus.
