Chapter 1

Question 1

Biophsychology

Answer 1

The study of behavior, mental processes, and biological factors

Question 2

Neuroscience

Answer 2

The science of the nervous system

Question 3

Edwin Smith

Answer 3

Wrote surgical papyrus in 1700
1st recorded writing of the brain

Question 4

Trepanation

Answer 4

First attempt at brain surgery
Boring holes into the head to relieve pressure, drain puss, or let out evil spirits

Question 5

Renaissance

Answer 5

Famous artists began depicting the brain and nervous system
*andreas Vesalius

Question 6

Andreas Vesalius

Answer 6

Created a detailed anatomy book in 1954
Illustrator of De Humani Corporis Fabrica

Question 7

Scientific revolution

Answer 7

Age of Enlightenment
Empiricism
Scientific method

Question 8

Rene Descartes

Answer 8

Believed the nervous system worked like a machine

Question 9

Dualism

Answer 9

Mind and brain are separate

Question 10

Monism

Answer 10

The mind is what the brain does. They are one

Question 11

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 11

The first to start studying the mind as a science separate from philosophy, religion, or biology.
Considered the first physiological psychologist

Question 12

Phrenology

Answer 12

Pseudoscience about reading the bumps on the skull

Question 13

Holistic approach to psychology

Answer 13

Investigates the whole picture
Whole is greater than its parts
Social psych, dev psych, industrial psych

Question 14

Reductionist approach

Answer 14

Investigate small, elemental components
Neurobiology, associative learning, psychophysics

Question 15

Applied approach to psychology

Answer 15

Focused on creating solutions
Psychoactive drugs
Clinical approach

Question 16

Basic approach

Answer 16

Discovery
Theory building
Understanding fundamental principals

Question 17

Physiological psychology

Answer 17

Animal models
Biology and physiology of behavior
Invasive
Anatomy, chem, genetics, neurology

Question 18

Psychophysiology

Answer 18

Human participants
Imaging
Recording
Noninvasive

Question 19

EEG

Answer 19

Measures electrical activity of the brain’s waves

Question 20

EEG

Answer 20

Measures electrical activity of the brain’s waves

Question 21

Psychopharmacology

Answer 21

Effects of psychoactive drugs

Question 22

Behavioral neuroendocrinology

Answer 22

Hormones influence on behavior

Question 23

Psychoneuroimmunology

Answer 23

Psychology, the nervous system, the immune system

Question 24

Cognitive neuroscience

Answer 24

Brain, memory, attention, language, decision making

Question 25

Behavioral genetics

Answer 25

Influence of genes in behavior and mental processes

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Evolutionary psych

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How natural selection and evolution influences behavior

Question 27

Comparative psych

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Study of how different species of animals learn, make decisions, and create and use memories

Question 28

Clinical neuroscience

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Researches causes, symptoms, treatments of neurophysiological issues. PHD

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Psychiatry

Answer 29

Doctor Therapy and drugs

Question 30

Neurologist

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Doctor Focuses on neuro disorders such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and concussions

Question 31

Homeopathy

Answer 31

Pseudoscience Expensive Changes are placebo Has no relevant chemicals that work on the nervous system

Question 32

Nanotechnology

Answer 32

Science of machines, devices, and materials that are very small

Question 33

Emergent property

Answer 33

An idea that something unique and unpredictable develops from small things working together

Question 34

Ethology

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Members of biology or zoology departments within a university and use techniques to conduct research on animal behavior in the wild

Question 35

Species specific behavior

Answer 35

Unique behaviors that animals naturally show

Question 36

Neural dust

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Can record and transmit the activity of neural signals