Exam 1 Review
PSB2000
Chapter 1: Biopsychology as a Neuroscience
Know your celebrities. Who was Donald O. Hebb? Who was Rene Descartes? Why are they
so super famous?
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Donald O. Hebb: wrote
Organization of Behavior
(1949)
Proposed that psychological phenomena (perceptions, emotions, thoughts,
memories) might be produced by brain activity
Publication credited as Birth of Biopsychology
His work helped discredit the notion that psychological functions were too
complex to be derived from physiological activities
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Rene Descartes:
Be able to describe different disciplines within neuroscience.
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Neuroanatomy: structure of the nervous system
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Neurophysiology: functions and activities of the nervous system
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Neurochemistry: chemical bases of neural activity
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Neuropsychology: effects of brain abnormalities on behavior
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Neuropharmacology: effects of drugs on neural activity
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Neuroendocrinology: interactions between the nervous system and the endocrine
system
Compare and contrast using human or non-human subjects in research.
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Why use humans?
Can follow instructions
Make subjective reports
Cheaper
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Why use nonhumans?
Species differences are often more quantitative than qualitative
Comparative approach
Studying species with frontal lobe and comparing to species without
frontal lobe
What are the key components that differentiate an experiment from a non-experiment? Under what conditions can you draw “causal” conclusions versus “associations”?
How do the concepts of “Converging Operations” and “Preponderance of evidence” contribute to scientific discovery?
