Chapter 1

Question 1

Neuropsychology

Answer 1

Study of the relation between behaviour and activity of the brain

Question 2

Clinical Neuropsychology

Answer 2

Concerned with psychological assessment, management, and rehabilitation of nurological disease and injury

Question 3

Examples of Clinical Neuropsychology

Answer 3

IQ tests, Speech tests

Question 4

Experimental Neuropsychology

Answer 4

Focuses on how human behaviour arises from brain activity

Question 5

Cardiocentric Hypothesis

Answer 5

Heart controls behaviour

Question 6

Cephalocentric Hypothesis

Answer 6

Brain + Mind controls behaviour
Mind is seperate from body (Dualism)

Question 7

Monism

Answer 7

Solely Brain controls behaviour

Question 8

What does cardiocentric hypothesis say about heart

Answer 8

Brain is served as a cooling unit for the blood to regulate the temperature of the heart

Question 9

Trephination

Answer 9

Drilling holes in the skull

Question 10

In cephalocentric hypothesis what was responsible for behaviour

Answer 10

Pineal Gland

Question 11

Phineas Gage

Answer 11

Change in Personality after injury

Question 12

What does the medulla control

Answer 12

Breathing

Question 13

Cranioscopy

Answer 13

Scientific examination, observation, and description of human skull

Question 14

phrenology

Answer 14

Measuring bumps on the skull

Question 15

Equipotentiality

Answer 15

If one part of the brain is dead then the alive parts take over

Question 16

Topographic

Answer 16

Representations of the external world mapped onto cortex

Question 17

Cytoarchitectonics

Answer 17

Neurons of similar shape and size tend to group together

Question 18

Leucotomy

Answer 18

Cutting white matter
Cut connections between frontal cortex and thalamus
Small hole drilled in side of skull
Alleviate symptoms of psychosis depression
Used conservatively

Question 19

Lobotomy

Answer 19

Putting a stick in the eye
Not used conservatively