Research on people with brain lesions
a. usually focuses on the way that isolated nerve cells function.
b. emphasizes that most people who have had strokes won't ever recover the ability to perform a cognitive task.
c. is a relatively recent neuroscience approach to cognition.
d. studies people who cannot perform specific cognitive tasks after they have had a stroke, tumor, or accident.
Question 2
According to the principle of ecological validity,
a. experiments should be as carefully controlled as possible, in order to avoid confounding variables.
b. laboratory settings should be employed whenever possible.
c. behavior should be initially studied in its simplest, most basic form; more complex kinds of behavior should be studied later on.
d. experiments should be conducted that will have some application to experience outside the laboratory
The overlapping relationship among research, evidence-based practice
Measuring Brain Activity
Hormones acting through the brain help regulate metabolism and short- and long-term appetite.
Computed tomography (CT) uses X-rays to create a CT scan of the brain.
Lobes of the brain
Deep brain stimulation