An Introduction to Neuropsychology (AQA GCSE Psychology): Exam Questions

Tulving used PET scans to study possible connections between types of memory and brain activity. He concluded that different areas of the brain are active when we have semantic or episodic memories.

Evaluate Tulving’s ‘gold’ memory study.

Many years ago researchers investigated the relationship between the brain and behaviour by looking at slices taken from the brains of dead people. Today scanning techniques such as fMRI scans are available.

Explain how modern scanning techniques have improved our understanding of the relationship between brain and behaviour.