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What is neuropsychology? |
-Psychology that is concerned with understanding normal and abnormal brain function and how it influences and cognitions. -Scientific study of the neuralinfrastructure of human behaviour, perception, cognition and emotion. |
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What is genomics? |
-Thecharacterization of body tissue using DNA as the ‘generator’ (the “Genome”). |
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What is connectomics? |
-Thecharacterization of the connections amongst nervoussystemelements (the “Connectome”) |
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Why do we have a central nervous system? |
-Provide an increase in the chance of producing adaptive behaviours. |
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What are some nervous system functions? |
-To monitor and control body functions. -To extract information from the external environment. -Interact with the environment by controlling the actions of muscles. |
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What is an advantage and disadvantage of the CNS? |
-Advantage: Central information processing makes use of common processing elements and avoids duplications of functions in different structures. -Disadvantage: Damage (caused by things like trauma) can affect many functions. |
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What is natural selection and who contributed to it? |
- Structural and functionalcharacteristics that allow an organism to reproduce more successfully arepassed on to offspring. -Variance in structure and function is required to make this possible. Genetic mutation provides variance. -Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace both independently came up with evolution. |
