CHAPTER 1

Question 1

What does the Cerebrum do?

Answer 1

Responsible for conscious behaviors

Question 2

What are embodied movements?

Answer 2

Movements we make to understand (gestures)

Question 3

What does the Cerebellum do?

Answer 3

Learning and coordinating our movements

Question 4

locked in syndrome

Answer 4

a condition in which the brain is intact, functioning, and sensitive to the extra world

Question 5

Persistent vegetative state (PVS)

Answer 5

are alive and show signs of wakefulness, but are unable to communicate.

Question 5

Minimally conscious state (MNS)

Answer 5

severe but not complete impairments of awareness

Question 6

Brains Plasticity

Answer 6

its ability to change in response to a learning experience

Question 7

Aristotle suggested?

Answer 7

all human intellectual functions are produced by a persons psyche

Question 8

Mentalism?

Answer 8

Aristotles idea
a persons mind (psyche) is responsible for behavior

Question 9

Descartes

Answer 9

placed the seat of the mind in the brain and linked the mind to the body

Question 10

Dualism

Answer 10

Descartes ides that behavior is controlled by two entities, a mind and a body.

Question 11

mind boy problem?

Answer 11

descartes idea- people who have damaged pineal body still show intelligent behavior

Question 12

Darwin

Answer 12

animals have traits in common because these traits are passed from parents to offspring

Question 13

Materialms

Answer 13

Darwins idea
the idea that the workings of the brain and the rest of the nervous system alone fully explain behavior

Question 13

natural selection

Answer 13

the theory explaining how species evlove and how existing species change over time

Question 14

phenotype

Answer 14

the characteristics we can see or measure

Question 15

epigenetic

Answer 15

studies how how gene expression is tuned on and off at different times and how environment and experience influence our behavior through their effects

Question 16

taxonomy

Answer 16

naming and classifying species by grouping representative organisms (hierarchy)

Question 17

Nerve Net

Answer 17

has no structure that resembles a brain or spinal cord but consists entirely on neurons that receive sensory information and connects directly to other neurons that move muscles.

Question 18

Bilateral symmetry

Answer 18

the nervous system on one side of the animal mirror that on the other side

Question 19

spinal cord

Answer 19

a single nervous system pathway that connects the brain with sensory receptors and muscles.

Question 20

Ganglia

Answer 20

clusters of neurons that resemble primitive brains and functions somewhat like them in that they are command centers

Question 21

chordates

Answer 21

a flexible rod that runs the length of the back.
In humans, the notochord (chordate) is present only in the embryo

Question 22

what happens as chordates evloved limbs

Answer 22

their brains become larger

Question 22

Cladogram

Answer 22

a chart that displays groups of related organisms as branches on a tree.

Question 23

Hominid

Answer 23

refers to primates that walk upright, including all forms of humans, living and extinct

Question 24

EQ (Encephalization quotient)

Answer 24

Jettisons quantive mesure that provides a rough estimate of comparative brain size

Question 25

Topographic maps

Answer 25

LEFT represent the different functional areas (visions, hearing touch, etc)

Question 26

connectome maps

Answer 26

RIGHT represent the connections through which each of these regions influence each other

Question 27

neoteny

Answer 27

process in which juvenile stages of predecessors become adult features of descendants

Question 28

complex culture

Answer 28

learned behaviors passed from generation to generation through teaching and experience

Question 29

Founding fathers

Answer 29

Nikolas tinbergen Konrad Zacharias lorenz Karl ritter frisch

Question 30

Animals with Both a bran and spinal cord are called?

Answer 30

chordates

Question 31

howler monkeys have smaller brains than equally sized spider monkeys. This is because

Answer 31

howler monkeys eat less fruit than spider monkeys

Question 32

the first humanlike brain evolved

Answer 32

6 million years ago

Question 33

the encephalization quotient is determined by

Answer 33

relating actual brain size to expected brain size

Question 34

the study of how genetic expression is related to the environment and experience is known as

Answer 34

epigenetic