Quizlet- Behavioral Neuroscience

Psychophysics

not neuroscience, investigates relationship between physical stimuli and how they affect sensations

Descriptive explanation of behavior

what does behavior look like

Behavioral Neuroscience

application of biology to the study of behavior in humans and animals

Behavioral neuroscience examines how_

experience or environment modify the brain and behavior

Neuroscience

study of the nervous system

biological psychology/ biopsychology/ psychobiology

Synonyms for behavioral neuroscience

Neurobiology

same as neuroscience, but used more in biology

Neurology

branch of medicine that studies brain and nervous system and their diseases

Neuropsychology

more about the use of tests/imaging to diagnose disorders

4 biological explanations of behavior

descriptive, evolutionary, developmental, mechanistic

Evolutionary explanation of behavior

how behavior/function diversified from earlier/less complex species

Developmental explanation of behavior

biological characteristics over the life span

Mechanistic explanation of behavior

relate a behavior to an activity/circuit/cell/ molecule in the brain

Neurons

basic elements for connectivity in the brain

The _ of neurons are critically important

spatial relationships

Reductionism

reduce the nature of complex things to their interactions or more fundamental parts (complex system is just a sum of its parts)

Emergentism

system is more than a sum of its parts (new properties emerge from the sum of others)

Minde-body problem

reconciling the relationship between mental processes and bodily processes

Dualism

different substances that exist independently, one substance for mind and the other for body

Monism

universe is only made of one substance

3 types of monism

materialism, mentalism, identity position

Materialism

everything that exists in physical/material

Mentalism

both physical and psychological phenomena are mentally constructed- everything is the mind

Identity Position

mental processes and brain processes are the same but described in different terms

Localization Theory

different parts of the brain have different functions

Holism

brain function is distributed throughout brain/ not localized

Thomas Willis

seminal book in history of brain sciences, understood functions of different parts of the brain

Descartes

dualism, brain is a reflexive machine

Bell- Magendie Law

dorsal= sensory, ventral= motoe

Dorsal Roots

sensory

Vental Roots

motor

Phrenology

skull features were indicative of brain development

Broca

proved cortical localization