Brain and Behaviour Flashcards
Who are the 3 people associated with ;
-Mentalism
-Dualism
-Materialism
Mentalism - Aristotle
Dualism - Descartes
Materialism - Darwin
What does Mentalism mean?
Mentalism - An explanation for behaviour as a function of the nonmaterial mind (psyche)
What does Embodied behaviour mean?
Theory that the movements we make and the movements we perceive in others are central to communication with others
What are the stages of the evolution of the nervous system in animals?
1) Neurons and muscles
2) Nerve net (nervous system with no centre but neurons connecting with one another)
3) Bilateral symmetry
4) Segmentation
5) Ganglia
6) Spinal cord
7) Brain
What does the key term encephalisation mean?
- Having the ganglia in the head
Ganglia - collection of nerve cells that act somewhat like a brain
The greatest degree of encephalisation would be having a brain
What is a Chordate ?
- An animal with a brain and a spinal cord
What is taxonomic classification?
-scientific study of naming, defining and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics
What are the difference between these key words;
- Cladogram
- Clade
- Cladistic
Cladogram -Phylogenetic tree ( lines of evolutionary descent of different species, organisms, or genes from a common ancestor) . branches repeatedly, suggesting a taxonomy of organisms based on the time sequence in which evolutionary branches arise. Looks at the complexity of evolution
Clade. - group of animal that derive from the same monophyletic origin (they are derived from a single ancestral species)
Cladistic - a system of classification that groups taxa( ranks such as species ) together according to the characteristics that have evolved most recently
What components of the brain are involved in the Limbic system?
- hippocampus
- hypothalamus
- amygdala
- thalamus
- basal ganglia
- cingulate gyrus
