History and Content Flashcards
(12 cards)
What is Biopsycholpgy?
How our brain, neurotransmitters and other aspects of our biology influence our behaviours thoughts and feelings.
What is Dualism and who introduced it?
- Belief that the mind and body are two separate entities (assumes existence of a soul)
- Aristotle, Renée Descartes
- Cartisian dualism
What is Monism and who suggested it?
- Belief that mind and body are one
- Christian von Wolff
- Mind is product of the brain
- Most common view of biopsychologists
What Hippocrates a monoist or a dualist?
Monoist
What did Galvani discover?
Experimented on frog with electrode and found that muscles contractors with electricity
What did Műller discover?
Doctoring of specific nerve energy- that we interact with the outside world through nerves. There’s no direct connection to brain
What did Flourens do and why?
Experimental ablation- cutting out or wounding certain parts of the brain to see how organism functions. Intended to find specific functions.
What did Broca discover?
Aphasia-where a person knows what they want to say but is unable to say it. (Different from Wernickes cuz there the person doesn’t know of their spoken mistakes)
What did Fritsch & Hitzig discover?
Specific areas of the brain control specific parts of the body (found this by stimulating the cortexes of live dogs)
What did Darwin and Wallace discover?
- Theory of evolution and common descent
- Theory of Natural Selection
What is natural selection?
Process by which selected traits that confer a selected advantage become more prevalent in the population
What did Earnest Weber do?
Nerves, nervous system and brain form the biological foundation of psychological processes
-Noticable Difference-we only understand the environment through these (smallest perceivable Difference between two similar stimuli)
