L1: Intro Flashcards
study of the brain and its components
Neuroscience
components of neuroscience?
Structures- cells
Proteins, receptors enzymes
Brain regions
Perception, movement, sleep & waking, reproductive behaviors, emotions, learning and language are what areas of study?
Behavioral Neuroscience
Type of explanation of behavior that relates behavior to the activity of the brain & other organs
Physiological explanation
Type of explanation of behavior that describes development of a structure or behavior (over a life span)
Ontogenic explanation
Type of explanation of behavior that looks at a structure or behavior in terms of evolutionary history (thru natural selection)
Evolutionary Explanation
Who viewed the world as mechanistic; in terms of reflexes elicited by environmental stimuli
Rene Descartes
Who discovered the theory that mind and body are separate entities?
What is that theory?
Rene Descartes
Dualism
Within the Dualism theory; which substances interact and what is the link bw them?
thought substance and physical substance interact
Link = Pineal Gland
theory that the universe consists of one kind of existence
Monism
Category of monism where everything that exists is material; purely mental events don’t exist
Materialism
Category of monism where only the mind really exists; the physical world only exists in our imagination
Mentalism
Category of monism where mental processes are the same as brain processes but described in different terms
Identity
Psychologist involved in experimental ethodology
Johannes Muller- 19th Century
2 components of experimental methodology
- ectomies (removing parts of the body)
- ablation
Johannes Muller founded the “doctrine of ______ ______ ________”
“doctrine of specific nerve energies”
doctrine which states that all nerves carry the basic “message,” but we perceive these messages in different ways
“Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies”
term when related messages to the brain are transmited in specific pathways to specific brain area
sensory
DNA, genes, chromosomes describe?
Genetics
Humans have __ pairs of chromosomes
23
DNA is ________ –> RNA
RNA is ________ –> protein product
DNA is transcribed –> RNA
RNA is translated –> protein product
term describing the estimate of how much of the variance in some characteristic within some population is due; range?
Heritability; 0-1
alterations in DNA (not mutations) that result in altered protein product in future generations; “tags” on genes that are a result of environment and are passed on to future generations
epigenetics
