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BehavNeuro1
Terms for the 1st exam
Question | Answer |
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Neuroscience | The study of the brain and its components |
Physiological Explanation for Behavior | relates behav. to activity in the brain |
Ontogenic Explanation for Behavior | relates behav. to development of a structure |
Evolutionary Explanation for Behavior | relates behav. to evolutionary history |
Dualism | Mind and body are separate entities (Descartes) |
Descartes believed mind & body were linked by... | the pineal gland! |
Monism | Universe consists of one kind of existence |
Materialism (Monism) | everything existing is material; just mental events dont exist |
Mentalism (Monism) | only mind exists; other things dont exist |
Identity (Monism) | mental process same as brain process but described differently |
Johannes Muller | Experimental Methodology (ectomies/ablation) |
"doctrine of specific nerve energies" | Muller |