Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is biological psychology?
Biological psych is a branch of neuroscience that focuses on the biological bases of behavior
What is phrenology?
The belief that specific behaviors, feelings and personality traits were controlled by certain regions of the brain. Some believed that you could read a persons character by feeling the bumps on a person’s head (localization of function)
What are the three general research perspectives?
The 3 general research perspectives are correlation, somatic intervention and behavior intervention
Biological psychology is conducted at what?
Biological psychology is conducted at levels of analysis ranging from molecular events to the functioning of the entire brain and complex social systems.
What is dualism?
Dualism is an idea from Rene Descartes believing that the mind has an immaterial aspect that is separate from the body and brain
Who was responsible for the brain on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
Michaelangelo in the Vatican
Who was responsible for the old drawings of the brain that showed fluid filled ventricles as a balloon connected to the eye?
Leonardo da Vinci
What is neuroscience?
Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system
What scientist believed that behavior resulted from “animal spirits” from the brain through the nerves?
The Father of Medicine, Galen
Explain the localization of function?
The concept that different brain regions specialize in specific behaviors
What scientist found that damage to specific regions of the brain cause predictable impairments–specifically that damage to the left side of the brain causes speech problems?
Paul Broca
What is ontogeny?
The process of growing up and growing old
What is a neuron?
The basic unit of the nervous system; also called a nerve cell
What is neuoplasticity?
the ability of the nervous systems to change in response to experience or environment
What is adult neurogenesis?
The creation of new neurons in the adult brain
