PSB 2000 FSU Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Hippocampus - ANSWERSMemory
Amygdala - ANSWERSEmotion
Why study Brain and Behavior? - ANSWERSHow the brain produces both behavior and human consciousness are major unanswered scientific questions
A question of the relationship between ph...
Why study Brain and Behavior? - ANSWERSHow the brain produces both behavior and human
consciousness are major unanswered scientific questions
A question of the relationship between physics and psychology
Chambers "hard problem" - ANSWERSGiven a universe f matter and energy, why is there such a thing as
consciousness?
Biological Psychology - ANSWERSThe study of physiological, evolutionary and developmental
mechanisms of behaviors and experience; a strong emphasis is placed upon brain functioning
Central Nervous System (CNS) - ANSWERSBrain and Spinal Cord
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) - ANSWERSall of the processes radiating out beyond the brain and
spinal cord; sensory receptors in the skin, muscles and internal body organs
Cortex ("bark") - ANSWERSHeavily folded outer layer of brain tissue composed of neurons
Forebrain - ANSWERSProminent in mammals and birds, responsible for most conscious behaviors
Brainstem - ANSWERSSource of behavior in simpler animals, responsible for most of our unconscious
behaviors
, Cerebellum ("little brains") - ANSWERSMore neurons than Cerebrum
Cerebrum - ANSWERSBig brain
Dorsal view - ANSWERSFrom above
Ventral view - ANSWERSFrom below
Sagittal - ANSWERSCut along the mid-line
Locked-in syndrome - ANSWERSCondition in which a patient is aware and awake but cannot move or
communicate verbally because of complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles
Neurons live to _____ and their special _____ is what lets them do that - ANSWERSCommunicate; Shape
Behavior - ANSWERSConsists of patterns in time; movements, vocalizations and thinking
Animals produce behaviors that are - ANSWERSInherited ways of responding and Learned
Relatively fixed (innate) behaviors - ANSWERSDepend on heredity
Relatively flexible behaviors - ANSWERSdepend on learning
Mentalism - ANSWERSAn explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial mind
Psyche - ANSWERSMind; an entity once proposed to be the source of human behavior
Dualism - ANSWERSBoth a nonmaterial mind and the material body contribute to behavior
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