PSY 449- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 449
• Professor: Christina Karns

Document Summary

Course topics: methods for studying the brain, object recognition, attention, memory, cognitive control, decision making, emotion. Human neuropsychology the study of the relationship between the human nervous system and behavior: typically studied by examining what happens to behavior with damage to the nervous system. Brain damage may be associated with specific and/or dramatic cognitive impairments. Function: direct: looking at electrical activity (action potential), directly measure neural activity. Indirect: e. g. measures blood flow or oxygenation in the blood, measures glucose, or metabolism. Direct: have invasive and non-invasive methods: good temporal resolution. Structural imaging using it as an individual difference measure. Dti diffusion tensor imaging, colors represent movement of fibers in the brain. Eeg-scalp electrodes measure summed activity of large populations of synchronously firing neurons: signal reflects global activity, salty gel used as a conductant, amplifier used to amplify the signals from your brain, event-related potentials (erps)