Chapter 1.6

Question 1

Somatic intervention

Answer 1

An approach to finding relations between body variables that involves manipulating body structure or function and looking for resultant changes in behavior

Question 2

Within-participants experiment

Answer 2

An experiment in which the same set of individuals is compared before and after an experimental manipulation. The experimental group serves as its own control group

Question 3

Between-participants experiment

Answer 3

An experiment in which an experimental group of individuals is compared with a control group of individuals that have been treated identically in every way except that they haven’t received the experimental manipulation

Question 4

Behavioral intervention

Answer 4

An approach to finding relations between body variables and behavioral variables that involves intervening in the behavior of an organism and looking for resultant changes in body structure or function

Question 5

Conserved

Answer 5

In the context of evolution, referring to a trait that is passed on from a common ancestor to two or more descendant species

Question 6

Reductionism

Answer 6

The scientific strategy of breaking a system down into increasingly smaller parts in order to understand it

Question 7

Level of analysis

Answer 7

The scope of an experimental approach. A scientist may try to understand behavior by monitoring molecules, nerve cells, brain regions, or social environments or using some combination of these levels of analysis