The Brain and Behavior Flashcards
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What were the Egyptians and Greek (Aristotle) focused on?
The heart
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What do Hippocrates and Galen focus on?
the brain
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How did leonardo da vinci impact neuroscience?
He drew picture of the brain that got more advanced/accurate as knowledge became more sophisticated
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Who explained the control of behavior in terms of a machine?
Rene Descartes
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Who proposed the concept of spinal reflexes and neural pathways?
Rene decartes
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What is an example of spinal reflexes
burning your hand and moving it before your brain registers
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What is the significance of Hebb (1949)
proposed the psychological phenomena might be produced by brain activity
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When was the decade of the brain?
1990-2000
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Levels of analysis
8 points
- social level
- organ level
- neural systems level
- brain region level
- circuit level
- cellular level
- synaptic level
- molecular level
True or False:
You should reduce everything to the lowest level to gain understanding
False
you could lose understandng
Define:
Phylogeny
studying changes in species during evolution
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Phylogeny
studying the evolutionary relationships
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models of research
2 points
- human models
- non-human models
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parts of an experimental/causal claim study
3 points
- covariance
- temportal precedence
- internal validity
Define
Correlational study/ assocaiation claim
study to measue how closely the body and behavior measures covary
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Somatic intervention
alteration of a sturcture or function to see how behavior is altered
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- independent variable in somatic intervention
- dependent variable in somatic intervention
- body changes (IV)
- behavioral responses (DV)
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Behavioral intervention (experimental design)
intervention of behavior to see how structure or function is altered
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- independent variable in behavioral intervention
- dependent variable in behavioral intervention
- behavior (IV)
- body changes (DV)
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correlational design
Compares how much a body measure varies with a behavioral measure
True or False:
A correlational study has an independent variable
False
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Types of correlations
3 points
- positive
- negative
- zero
