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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
Q

What is Neuropsychology?

A

assessment and treatment of patients with brain injury or disease.
Application of standardized measures in the study of brain-behaviour relationships

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What is the brain hypothesis?

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behaviour results from brain activity

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3
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What is the Cardiac hypothesis?

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Behaviour results from heart activity

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4
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Who was the first person to develop a formal theory of behaviour?

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Aristotle

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5
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Who believed that the pineal gland was the decision maker?

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Descartes

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Who believed in Materialism view of the brain-behaviour relationship?

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Darwin

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Who came up with Phrenology?

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Spurzheim & Gall

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What is phrenology?

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The map of relations between the skull’s surface and brain function

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What are the two types of cells that make up the nervous system?

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Neurons and Glial cells

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10
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Who proposed that new or strengthened connections are the structural basis of memory

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Donald Hebb

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What does Plasticity mean?

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The brain undergoes ongoing, dynamic reorganization

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What does cognition mean?

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The process of taking sensory information and using it (transform, store, and elaborate)

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13
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What is the Binding problem?

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separate pieces of info but experience one whole

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Describe Luria’s Hierarchical Model of Cortical Funtion

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Three Units:
Unit I: 
- Reticular Activating System
- Tone & Arousal
Unit II: 
- Sensory Unit
- Reception, Analysis and storage of info
Unit III:
- Motor Unit
- Programming, regulating, and verifying conscious activity
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15
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Name the 12 cranial nerves.

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I = Olfactory
II = Optic
III = Oculomotor
IV = Trochlear
V = Trigeminal
VI = Abducens
VII = Facial
VIII = Auditory Vestibular
IX = Glossopharyngeal
X = Vagus
XI = Spinal Accessory
XII = Hypoglossal
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16
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What are the three basic functions of the brain?

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  • Creating a sensory reality
  • Integrating information
  • Producing behaviour
17
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What are the three layers in the Meninges?

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  • Dura Mater
  • Arachnoid Mater
  • Pia Mater
18
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What are the principle structures found in the forebrain?

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  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Basal Ganglia
  • Limbic System
19
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What are the principle structures found in the Midbrain?

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  • Tectum
  • Tegmentum
  • Substantia Nigra
  • Red Nucleus
20
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What are the principle structures found in the Hindbrain?

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  • Cerebellum
  • Pons
  • Medulla Oblongata
  • Reticular formation
21
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What are the three interconnected nuclei that make up the basal ganglia?

A

Caudate Nucleus
Putamen
Globus Pallidus

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