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Exploring the brain
What does the brain do,
What is the peripheral nervous sy...,
What are the two subsections of t...
14
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From Brain To Neuron
What are the functions of the ven...,
What are the main parts of the bl...,
Main elements of a neuron
8
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Action Potentials And Synapses
What is involved in neurotransmis...,
What is a resting membrane potential,
What are electrical signals
12
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Recreational Drugs: Addiction And Neuroscience
How are drugs used recreationally,
What is a definition of addictive...,
What neurotransmitter receptors a...
14
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Brain Systems At Work - 7
How does the eye analyse a visual...,
Picking up the detail of the eye,
What is the function of the optic...
12
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Stress and Emotion - 8
What is a definition of stress,
What is the hypothalamo pituitary...,
What are the components of the ph...
9
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Emotion: Behavioural Perspectives - 9
What is an emotion,
What are darwins thoughts of emotion,
James and darwins work on emotion...
10
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Emotion: perspectives from neuroscience - 10
What is involved in the limbic sy...,
What is the origin of the term li...,
What is the papez circuit of emotion
7
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Respondent Conditioning - 11
What is the limbic system,
What is learning,
What is not learning
10
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Operant Conditioning - 12
What is thorndikes puzzle box,
What are thorndikes 3 main laws o...,
What is instrumental operant cond...
7
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Synaptic basis of memory - 13
What was the earliest search for ...,
What are modern ideas are learnin...,
What are dedicated memory storage...
9
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Thirst and Drinking - 14
What is drive reduction theory,
What is negative feedback,
What are the components of a home...
11
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Motivation: Feeding - 15
What are some obesity trends,
What are 3 life threatening eatin...,
How does the body use energy
11
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Motivation: The Limbic System - 16
What is brain reward self stimula...,
What is deep brain stimulation us...,
How is feeding linked to anticipa...
7
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Evolution of Emotion - 17
What are some key points on emotion,
What were darwins observations of...,
What did jaak panksepp propose
13
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Social Behaviour and Communication - 18
What is social organisation,
What are approaches to studying s...,
What are contrasting ideas on why...
11
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Sexual Selection & Communication - 19
What is sexual selection,
What are the two processes of sex...,
What are key forms of intra sexua...
7
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Cognitive Abilities in Animals - 20
What is cognition,
What signals do animals give that...,
What are language like abilities ...
8
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Primate social and mating systems - 21
Key terms,
What are different types of matin...,
What are the characteristics of p...
7
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Human Evolutionary Psychology - 22
What are evolutionary approaches ...,
What are the key points on human ...,
What is environment of evolutiona...
14
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