Lecture 1: Intro and origins of neuropsychology Flashcards
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definition of neuropsychology
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the scientific study of the neural basis of human experience, cognition and behaviour
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what is clinical neuropsych
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evaluation and treatment of brain abnormalities affecting experience and behavior
- you need a license
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what is behaviour
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- output from the nervous system
- PURPOSFUL and deliberate action
- behaviour is the way we explain the nature of experience
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what is cognition
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- capacity to acquire and store information
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what is experience
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- neural information that came from sensation and then stored in memory
- awareness of the ongoing present of internal and external environments of thoughts and emotional states
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origins of nauropsychology
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- foundation of materialism
- matter is the fundamental substance in nature and that human behaviour have a purely material basis
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neurobehavioral disabilities
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- disturbance of cognition, mood and behaviour constitute the most debilitating aspects of brain injury
- this affects the person, family, friends, finances etc
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traumatic brain injury
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- TBI
- caused by a rapid acceleration or deceleration of the head
- you hit something
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non-traumatic brain injury
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- caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain, viral or bacterial infection metabolic abnormality
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what is materialism
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- the philosophy of neuropsychology
- matter is the fundamental natural substance
- behaviour and consciousness are results of material interactions of the nervous system
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psychophysics
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- relation between the physical world and experience
- functional relationships between physical stimulus and psychological response
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mental chronometry
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measuring human reaction percisely
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electrophysiology
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-recording brain function
- electrodes strapped to your head
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gunshot wound neurology
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- open brain injury
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who is wilhelm Wundt
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- founded the first psychology lab in 1879
- ## originally called it psychophysiology
