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IB Psychology:

THe Biological Level of Analysis

Learning Outcome: Outline principles that define the biological level of analysis

Key Concepts

  • Principle 1: There are biological correlates of behaviour
  • There are physiological origins of behaviour
  • Stress hormone cortisol on verbal declarative memory
  • Principle 2: Animal research can provide insight into human behaviour
  • Researchers use animals to study physiological processes
  • Brain plasticity 
  • Enriched and deprived environments
  • Principle 3: Human behaviour is, to some extent, genetically based
  • Behaviour can be explained by genetic inheritance
  • Concordance rates and twins studies

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Key research

Authors: Newcomer et al. (1999)
Title: Decreased memory performance in healthy humans induced by stress-level cortisol treatment.

Authors: Rosenzweig et al. (1972) 
Title: Brain changes in response to experience.

Authors: Bouchard et al. (1990) 
Title: Sources of Human Psychological Differences: The Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart.

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Principals

Original STudy:
Newcomer et al. (1999)

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Principal 1 - research

Original STudy:
Rosenzweig et al. (1972)

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Principal 2 - Research

Original STudy:
Rosenzweig et al. (1972)

POWERPOINT SUMMARY NOTES:
Principal 3 - Research

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Outline principles that define the biological level of analysis

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