Background

Question 1

Biopsych

Answer 1

Study of biological bases if psychological processes and behavior

• interdisciplinary
• bidirectional
• multiple levels of analysis (micro-macro)

Question 2

Ancient Egyptians/Greeks viewed ______ as the center of thought

Answer 2

Heart

Question 3

Hippocrates (~400BCE)

Answer 3

Claimed brain’s critical role in thoughts/emotions

One of the first to do so

Question 4

Galen (2nd century ACE)

Answer 4

Physician, looked at impacts of head injury to behavior

Question 5

Da Vinci (1452-1519)

Answer 5

Dissection informed his anatomical illustrations, allowing them to become more and more anatomically correct

Question 6

Michaelangelo

Answer 6

Painted Sistine chapel, looks similar to anatomical brain

Question 7

Descartes (1596-1650)

Answer 7

Dualism- brain and mind are separate entities, material body vs immaterial soul (souls governs body through point of contact in body-pineal gland)

-basic reflex physiology attributed to brain

Question 8

Frank Joseph Gall (1758-1825)

Answer 8

Phrenology- parts of brain have specific functions, can be found by examining bumps on skull

-neophrenology- new and updated phrenology, specific brain parts are linked to specific things (says phrenology isn’t all wrong bc it got localization right)

Question 9

Ontegeny

Answer 9

Process by which an individual changes in the course of its lifetime

Question 10

Phylogeny

Answer 10

Evolutionary history

Question 11

Somatic intervention

Answer 11

Manipulating the body to impact behavior

Question 12

Behavioral intervention

Answer 12

Manipulating ones behavior to impact the body

Question 13

Within-subjects

Answer 13

All subjects receive the same treatment, comparison is between their before/after states

(Ex. Me on placebo vs. me on given drug)

Question 14

Between-subjects

Answer 14

Some subjects get the treatment, others do not. Comparison between two groups.