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What is Physiological Psychology |
The relationship between the brain and behavior. |
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True or False: Now that you are an adult you are losing neurons constantly and they don't grow back at all? |
False |
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True or False: The human brain has approx 100 billion neurons |
True |
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True or False: The adult cerebral cortex is 77% of the total brain volume |
True |
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True or False: You only use 10% of your brain. |
False |
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Galen |
1. Concluded that sensory nerves all entered the brain. 2. Agreed with Plato who believed the brain was the seat of mental processes. |
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Descartes |
First to propose a theory about mind/body interactions, Dualist Believes in innate ideas |
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John Locke |
Tabula Rasa Rejects innate ideas. |
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Darwin |
Characteristics have a functional significance Adaptive behaviors are not inherited but the brain that carries out these behaviors is inherited. Functionalism |
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Functionalism |
Characteristics of living organisms perform useful functions. |
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Phreneology |
Gall (1808) - the shape of the skull reveals a persons mental functions & character traits |
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Phineas Gage |
brain damage that led to personality change with no change in intellectual ability. |
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Broca |
discovered patients with damage to a particular area of the brain have language problems. |
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Physiological Psychologists |
1. Descartes 2. Muller 3. Helmholtz |
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Behavior Neuroscience |
the branch of psychology that studies the relationship between behavior and the brain. |
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Natural Selection |
Characteristic becomes more prevalent in a population |
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Evolution |
a gradual change in the structure and physiology of plant and animal species as a result of natural selection. |
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Evolution of Larger Brains |
1. Humans have very large brains when brain size is considered in relation to body size. 2. Humans have the most neocortex in relation to brain size. |
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Evolution (Brain) |
Influences the genes that are inherited that lead to the development of the nervous system, |
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Genetics (Brain) |
1. Gives us a nervous system 2. Governs Behaviors 3. Gives us predispositions, |
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Environment (Brain) |
Predispositions can alter how different individuals react to their environment. |
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Biology of Behavior Diagram |
Will This be on the Test Slide # 26 |
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Empiricism |
information through observation |
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Observation |
Naturalistic, case study, survey, experimental Objective |
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Experimental Method Manipulation |
Researcher manipulates an independent variable and this IV is expected to affect behavior. |
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Experimental Method Measures |
Research measures the dependent variable (DV) which serves to measure the effect of the IV on behavior. Causality. |
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Hypothesis |
a statement about the expected relationship between two or more variables |
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Theory |
integrates and interprets diverse observations in an attempt to explain some phenomena. |
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Chromosomes |
contain DNA and are situated in the nucleus of a cell. |
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Genes |
Segments of DNA, that make proteins to determine our development |
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Cells can perform different biological function |
Selective Expression of DNA/Synthesis of Protein |
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Protein |
The functional unit of Biology |
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Neurons are distinguishable by the |
proteins they make. |
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Twin Studies |
a method for examining the influence of heredity of a particular trait |
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Adoption Studies |
Another method to examine the heritability of a trait |