Chapter 1: Environment

Question 1

Cognitive Neuroscience

Answer 1

Study of the brain relating to cognition (memory, language, etc.)

Question 2

Physiologists

Answer 2

Physiological responses to psychological experience and stimuli

Question 3

Psychopharmacologists

Answer 3

Study of the brain with drug use/psychoactives

Question 4

Context

Answer 4

How we interact with our environment, internally and externally

Question 5

Natural Selection

Answer 5

Species that adapt to the environment have a greater chance of survival

Question 6

Adaptation

Answer 6

Biological changes that enhance survival (either ultimate or proximal causes)

Question 7

Rosenzweig & Bennett (1972)

Answer 7

Studied context through neural connections related to enrichment of environment
Realized that enrichment correlates to thicker cortexes
Instrumental to deinstitutionalization efforts

Question 8

Lambert et al.

Answer 8

Studied effects of natural vs. artificial environments
Found DHEA went up (hormone related to emotional resilience) in natural setting, which buffered effects of stress hormone corticosterone

Question 9

Loh & Kanai (2014)

Answer 9

Studied that media multitasking is associated with smaller gray-matter density in the anterior cingulate cortex