L1: Intro

Question 1

study of the brain and its components

Answer 1

Neuroscience

Question 2

components of neuroscience?

Answer 2

Structures- cells

Proteins, receptors enzymes

Brain regions

Question 3

Perception, movement, sleep & waking, reproductive behaviors, emotions, learning and language are what areas of study?

Answer 3

Behavioral Neuroscience

Question 4

Type of explanation of behavior that relates behavior to the activity of the brain & other organs

Answer 4

Physiological explanation

Question 5

Type of explanation of behavior that describes development of a structure or behavior (over a life span)

Answer 5

Ontogenic explanation

Question 6

Type of explanation of behavior that looks at a structure or behavior in terms of evolutionary history (thru natural selection)

Answer 6

Evolutionary Explanation

Question 7

Who viewed the world as mechanistic; in terms of reflexes elicited by environmental stimuli

Answer 7

Rene Descartes

Question 8

Who discovered the theory that mind and body are separate entities?

What is that theory?

Answer 8

Rene Descartes

Dualism

Question 9

Within the Dualism theory; which substances interact and what is the link bw them?

Answer 9

thought substance and physical substance interact

Link = Pineal Gland

Question 10

theory that the universe consists of one kind of existence

Answer 10

Monism

Question 11

Category of monism where everything that exists is material; purely mental events don’t exist

Answer 11

Materialism

Question 12

Category of monism where only the mind really exists; the physical world only exists in our imagination

Answer 12

Mentalism

Question 13

Category of monism where mental processes are the same as brain processes but described in different terms

Answer 13

Identity

Question 14

Psychologist involved in experimental ethodology

Answer 14

Johannes Muller- 19th Century

Question 15

2 components of experimental methodology

Answer 15

• ectomies (removing parts of the body)
• ablation

Question 16

Johannes Muller founded the “doctrine of ______ ______ ________”

Answer 16

“doctrine of specific nerve energies”

Question 17

doctrine which states that all nerves carry the basic “message,” but we perceive these messages in different ways

Answer 17

“Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies”

Question 18

term when related messages to the brain are transmited in specific pathways to specific brain area

Answer 18

sensory

Question 19

DNA, genes, chromosomes describe?

Answer 19

Genetics

Question 20

Humans have __ pairs of chromosomes

Answer 20

23

Question 21

DNA is ________ –> RNA

RNA is ________ –> protein product

Answer 21

DNA is transcribed –> RNA

RNA is translated –> protein product

Question 22

term describing the estimate of how much of the variance in some characteristic within some population is due; range?

Answer 22

Heritability; 0-1

Question 23

alterations in DNA (not mutations) that result in altered protein product in future generations; “tags” on genes that are a result of environment and are passed on to future generations

Answer 23

epigenetics