The Brain and Behavior

Question 1

Answer

What were the Egyptians and Greek (Aristotle) focused on?

Answer 1

The heart

Question 2

Answer:

What do Hippocrates and Galen focus on?

Answer 2

the brain

Question 3

Answer:

How did leonardo da vinci impact neuroscience?

Answer 3

He drew picture of the brain that got more advanced/accurate as knowledge became more sophisticated

Question 4

Answer:

Who explained the control of behavior in terms of a machine?

Answer 4

Rene Descartes

Question 5

Answer:

Who proposed the concept of spinal reflexes and neural pathways?

Answer 5

Rene decartes

Question 6

Answer:

What is an example of spinal reflexes

Answer 6

burning your hand and moving it before your brain registers

Question 7

Answer:

What is the significance of Hebb (1949)

Answer 7

proposed the psychological phenomena might be produced by brain activity

Question 8

Answer:

When was the decade of the brain?

Answer 8

1990-2000

Question 9

List:

Levels of analysis

8 points

Answer 9

• social level
• organ level
• neural systems level
• brain region level
• circuit level
• cellular level
• synaptic level
• molecular level

Question 10

True or False:

You should reduce everything to the lowest level to gain understanding

Answer 10

False

you could lose understandng

Question 11

Define:

Phylogeny

Answer 11

studying changes in species during evolution

Question 12

define:

Phylogeny

Answer 12

studying the evolutionary relationships

Question 13

list:

models of research

2 points

Answer 13

• human models
• non-human models

Question 14

List

parts of an experimental/causal claim study

3 points

Answer 14

• covariance
• temportal precedence
• internal validity

Question 15

Define

Correlational study/ assocaiation claim

Answer 15

study to measue how closely the body and behavior measures covary

Question 16

define:

Somatic intervention

Answer 16

alteration of a sturcture or function to see how behavior is altered

Question 17

List:

• independent variable in somatic intervention
• dependent variable in somatic intervention

Answer 17

• body changes (IV)
• behavioral responses (DV)

Question 18

Define:

Behavioral intervention (experimental design)

Answer 18

intervention of behavior to see how structure or function is altered

Question 19

List:

• independent variable in behavioral intervention
• dependent variable in behavioral intervention

Answer 19

• behavior (IV)
• body changes (DV)

Question 20

define:

correlational design

Answer 20

Compares how much a body measure varies with a behavioral measure

Question 21

True or False:

A correlational study has an independent variable

Answer 21

False

Question 22

List:

Types of correlations

3 points

Answer 22

• positive
• negative
• zero