Chapter 1

Question 0

What are the 4 biological explanations for behavior?

Answer 0

Physiological

Ontogenetic

Evolutionary

Functional

Question 1

Biopsychology

Answer 1

Study of the physiological (what is going on in the brain), evolutionary (how did we get to this point), and developmental (how did we get from this to this) mechanisms of behavior and experience

Question 2

Physiological explanation

Answer 2

Relates behavior to the activity of the brain

What is it about the brain that results in certain behavior

Question 3

Ontogenetic explanation

Answer 3

Describes the development of a structure or behavior

DNA, nutrition, first experience

Question 4

Evolutionary explanation

Answer 4

Examines a structure or a behavior in terms of evolutionary history

(Must reproduce to pass down genes)

Question 5

Functional explanation

Answer 5

Describes why a structure of behavior developed as it did

What is the advantage and what gives them advantage of attracting a mate?

Question 6

Dualism

Answer 6

Idea that we have mental and physical events separately

Question 7

Monism

Answer 7

Idea that universe exists of only one kind of existence

Question 8

3 types of monism

Answer 8

Materialism

Mentalism

Identity position

Question 9

Materialism

Answer 9

Everything is physical

No mental events

Question 10

Mentalism

Answer 10

Only the mind exists

Physical world is in our imagination

Question 11

Identity position

Answer 11

Mental processes and brain processes are the same they are jus explained differently

Question 12

David Chalmers- easy problems

Answer 12

Easy to address

Wakefulness/sleep and how we focus attention

Question 13

David Chalmers- hard problems

Answer 13

Why and how brain activity is associated with consciousness

Question 14

Research fields

Answer 14

1. Neuroscientist
2. behavioral neuroscientist
3. cognitive neuroscientist
4. neuropsychologist
5. psychophysiologist
6. neurochemist
7. comparative psychologist

Question 15

Neuroscientist

Answer 15

Studies anatomy, biochemistry, or physiology of the BRAIN

Question 16

Behavioral neuroscientist

Answer 16

Investigates how functioning of the brain and other ORGANS influences behavior

Question 17

Cognitive neuroscientist

Answer 17

Uses brain research to analyze and explore people’s KNOWLEDGE, THINKING, & PROBLEM SOLVING

Question 18

Neuropsychologist

Answer 18

Conducts behavioral tests to determine the abilities and disabilities of people with various BRAIN DAMAGE

Question 19

Psychophysiologist

Answer 19

Measures HEART RATE, breathing rate, brain waves, and other body processes and how they vary from person to person

Question 20

Neurochemist

Answer 20

INVESTIGATES the chemical reactions in the brain

Question 21

Comparative psychologist

Answer 21

relates behaviors to the functions they serves and therefore the presumed selective pressures that caused them to evolve