CH. 1 Flashcards
Left/ right hemisphere; conscious behavior
cerebrum
learning; movement (motor)
cerebellum
spinal cord and brain
central nervous system
everything outside of brain and spinal cord
peripheral nervous system
W/o ___ and ___, the brain can’t function
sensation and movement
w/o stimulation, there is no function in regard to ___
embodiment
stuck in body
locked-in syndrome
alive, but completely unaware (i.e. coma)
persistent vegetative syndrome
pattern in time (movement, thinking, vocalization)
behavior
brain doing diff. things
variety
innate; fixed behavior
heredity (genetic)
ability to learn new things
plasticity
Aristotle; behavior driven by psyche (i.e. sense, conscience); independent of body
mentalism
Descartes; believed that mind and body worked through pineal gland; believed that mind told glen to expand fluid to muscles to move
dualism
Darwin; natural selection or evolutionary theory; all consciousness= nervous system; species= brain= behavior related
materialism
better adaptation to environment , or survival of the fittest
natural selection
allowed animals to move
neurons (brain cells), or muscles
complex net of nerves to sense/move; no brain (i.e. jellyfish)
nerve net
sections of body that repeat (i.e. things of spinal cord)
segmentation
gang of nerves; command center
ganglia
from brain to sensory receptors and muscles
spinal cord
animals with brain and spinal cord
chordates
