Abstract: . . .  experimental psychology Page 1 Excerpt from LABORATORY MANUAL PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY : EXPERIMENTAL FOUNDATIONS PSYCHOLOGY 122 2001 Participating Faculty Preceptors Professor James Dickson (dickson@stolaf.edu) Kristina Anderson Professor Dana Gross (grossd@stolaf.edu) Katherine Audette . . .
. . .  proteins (usually membrane-bound) specialized to bind with only one type or family of molecules (e.g., muscarinic receptors). Scopolamine : a drug binding to muscarinic (but not nicotinic) receptors. It thus prevents acetylcholine released in the brain from binding and activating muscarinic receptors. Spatial learning : the process of learning the relative location of fixed places in our environment. References Required Lab Reading Buresova, O., Bolhuis, J. J., & Bures, J. (1986). Differential effects . . .
. . .  selectively block muscarinic receptors? Those questions are answered in our methods section, which allow others to repeat the experiment and thus check our results. Methods Subjects Since our study requires manipulating brain processes, we must use laboratory animals for ethical reasons. Our choice is one of the most common of all non-human subjects in experimental psychology , namely albino rats. They are a good choice, because they are easy and inexpensive to house, have brains that serve as a . . .
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. . .  sequence of testing and cholinergic blockade. Behavioral Neuroscience,109, 859-873. Binetti, G., Cappa, S.F., Magni, E., Padovani, A., Bianchetti, A., & Trabucchi, M. (1998). Visual and spatial perception in the early phase of Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychology , 12 , 29-33. Buresova, O., Bolhuis, J.J., & Bures, J. (1986). Differential effects of cholinergic blockade on performance of rats in the water tank navigation task and in a radial water maze. Behavioral Neuroscience, 100, 476-482. American . . .
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