all the content you need to get high grades in the biopsychology section of the AQA A-Level in psychology
this is written by a A* student who used these notes alongside many past paper questions
these notes include both the required amount needed for a01 and detailed evaluation for a03
notes for-
- organisation of the nervous system and functions
- endocrine system- glands and hormones
- fight or flight response
- neurons- structure of motor, sensory and relay, electric transmission
- synaptic transmission- neurotransmitters, excitation, inhibition, summation
- localisation
- lateralisation- sperrys research
- plasticity- synaptic reweighting, creating new synapses, synaptic pruning
- functional recovery after trauma- neuronal unmasking, axonal sprouting, recruitment of homologous areas
- ways of studying the brain- fMRI, EEG, ERPs, post mortem (detailed evaluation of each method)
- biological rhythms- circadian (endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers), infradian, ultradian
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