Everything Psychological

Question bank covering section 1 of biological psychology, with answers.

Detailed and visual lecture notes covering: the retina and photoreceptors, visual pathways, depth perception, retinal disparity, colour vision and the trichromacy colour matching experiment (Young, 1802), principle univariance, colour opponency, the Perky effect (Perky, 1910), and mental rotation.

Lecture notes on biological rhythms covering: lesion studies, brain stem control of sleep and wakefulness (Bremner, 1937), reticular formation, brain mechanisms of sleep and waking, neurotransmitters and sleep, sleep-wake switch, flip-flop switch, the sleep switch, biological clocks and brain areas, genes and rhythms, chronotype variations, why light is important, two process theory (Borbely, 1974), effects of sleep disruption, and classification of sleep disorders.

Full coverage of action potentials, with well-structured subheadings to organise the material, subject material includes: introduction, active cell membranes, the membrane potential, the action potential, and a summary, along with some visual materials to summarise key information.

Visual part of section 1, with table summarising key terms needed to progress with the section, visual imagery on brain locations, and the structure of the central nervous system (inc. lobes, and structures), and finally, the peripheral nervous system (autonomic and somatic).

Another visual summary providing key information about the different parts of the brain and their associated internal structures. This document includes: functions of the different structures, along with visual imagery, and the structures of the brain that belong to that section, such as the hindbrain and its structures: medulla, pons and cerebellum.