Physiological Psychology - Module 1

Question 1

Dualism

Answer 1

Dual nature of reality, mind and body are separate, mind is not made up of ordinary matter

Question 2

Monism

Answer 2

everything in universe consists of matter and energy, mind is made up of nervous system

Question 3

Consciousness

Answer 3

wakefulness, aware of thoughts, perceptions, memories and feelings
-Can be changed by structure/chemistry

Question 4

Blindsight

Answer 4

• Damage to a part of the brain
• Behaviour can be guided by sensory information we are unaware of
• We have a primitive brain and a mammalian brain
• Primitive: controls eye movement, visceral information producing behaviour without consciousness
• Mammalian: perceives the sight we see

Question 5

Split Brains

Answer 5

brain is split into two by cutting corpus callosum, thus stops the signalling between the two hemispheres
- left controls speech thus people only converse using the the left side of the brain. what the right side sees cannot be expressed

Question 6

Perception of self

Answer 6

The rubber hand illusion showed that what the person saw was percieved as their own

Question 7

Unilateral Neglect

Answer 7

• Dont pay attn to things on the left
• Damage to right cortex of parietal lobe
• Percieves body and position, auditory and visuals

Question 8

Reflex

Answer 8

automatic movement produced as a result of a stimulus

Question 9

Model

Answer 9

analogy using math or physical things for physiological processes

Question 10

Doctrine of specific nerve energies

Answer 10

Müller’s conclusion that, because all nerve fibers carry the same type of message, sensory information must be specified by the particular nerve fibers that are active.

Question 11

Experimental ablation

Answer 11

research method in which the function of a part of the brain is inferred by observing the behaviors an animal can no longer perform after that part is
damaged.