Section 1 - Biological Basis of Behaviour & Cognition

Question 1

What’s the mind-body argument?

Answer 1

The extent to which the mind & body are separate or the same thing

Question 2

Who came up with the mind-body argument?

Answer 2

Rene Descartes

Question 3

Dualism

Answer 3

Mind and brain are separate but can interact

Question 4

Reductionism

Answer 4

All psychology can be reduced to physiology

Question 5

Planes of Section

Answer 5

Ways in which to divide the brain up

Question 6

What are the different Planes of Section?

Answer 6

Sagittal, coronal & axial

Question 7

What are the 4 anatomical directions?

Answer 7

Dorsal, Ventral, Caudal & Rostral

Question 8

What are the common terms for the 4 anatomical directions?

Answer 8

dorsal = top
ventral = bottom
caudal = front
rostral = back

Question 9

What’s a callosotomy?

Answer 9

Separation of the corpus callosum for patients with serve epilepsy so information isn’t bale to be sent from one hemisphere to the other.

Question 10

What are commissural pathways?

Answer 10

Myelinated axons interconnecting regions or structures in the left and right sides of the brain

Question 11

How many Brodman areas are there?

Answer 11

52

Question 12

What is the order of the brain divisions?

Answer 12

Tel, Di/Mes/Met, My (encephala)

Question 13

What’s a synapse?

Answer 13

Gap between the axon terminal & the next neutron

Question 14

Do female sex organs require hormones for development?

Answer 14

No

Question 15

Do male sex organs require hormones for development?

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

What’s the Model of Biological basis of behaviours?

Answer 16

evolution develops genes which interacts with experiences to come up with the current organism.

Question 17

What are epigenetic processes?

Answer 17

Early life stresses and social interaction can change the biology of someone

Question 18

What is a Epigenetic mechanism?

Answer 18

Histone proteins function for DNA & change their shape