Chapter 18: Psychobiology (Test 3)

Where did Lashley go to school?

John Hopkins University

Who inspired Lashley?

John Watson

What promoted gestalt psychology and cognitive neuroscience?

Lashley’s “Brain mechanisms and intelligence”

Where did Donald Hebb go to school?

University of Chicago and Harvard

What did Donald Hebb emphasize?

Cell assembly and phase sequences

What is essential for development of connectionism? (AI)

Hebb’s rule

Where did Roger Sperry go to school?

Oberlin College and University of Chicago

What is split brain preparation

ablating corpus colosseum and optic chiasm

What does split brain help with?

seizures

Who is associated with ethology?

Karl Frische, Konrad Lorenz, and Niko Tinberg

What did Niko Tinberg receive recognition from?

Stickleback fish and the four aims of the ethological approach

What is the most important question in ethology?

How much behavior is due to instinct and how much to learning?

What is Konrad Lorenz known for?

imprinting in geese and an ethology approach to social psychology

Who was the founder of sociobiology?

Edward Osborne Wilson

Leash principle

biological disposition to create culture for survival

Who gave nativist explanations recognition?

Wilson, Breland, and Seligman

Bouchard confirmed what?

monozygotic twins are identical on physical characteristics

Operant conditioning on animals was due to who?

Breland’s work at Animal Behavior enterprises