Chapter 1 Flashcards
Neuropsychology
Study of the relation between behaviour and activity of the brain
Clinical Neuropsychology
Concerned with psychological assessment, management, and rehabilitation of nurological disease and injury
Examples of Clinical Neuropsychology
IQ tests, Speech tests
Experimental Neuropsychology
Focuses on how human behaviour arises from brain activity
Cardiocentric Hypothesis
Heart controls behaviour
Cephalocentric Hypothesis
Brain + Mind controls behaviour
Mind is seperate from body (Dualism)
Monism
Solely Brain controls behaviour
What does cardiocentric hypothesis say about heart
Brain is served as a cooling unit for the blood to regulate the temperature of the heart
Trephination
Drilling holes in the skull
In cephalocentric hypothesis what was responsible for behaviour
Pineal Gland
Phineas Gage
Change in Personality after injury
What does the medulla control
Breathing
Cranioscopy
Scientific examination, observation, and description of human skull
phrenology
Measuring bumps on the skull
Equipotentiality
If one part of the brain is dead then the alive parts take over
Topographic
Representations of the external world mapped onto cortex
Cytoarchitectonics
Neurons of similar shape and size tend to group together
Leucotomy
Cutting white matter
Cut connections between frontal cortex and thalamus
Small hole drilled in side of skull
Alleviate symptoms of psychosis depression
Used conservatively
Lobotomy
Putting a stick in the eye
Not used conservatively
