PSY 319 exam 1 practice questions with correct answers

identify general rules that govern behavior across multiple organisms - Answer generalization identify simple causes of complex behaviors - Answer reductionism research in neuroscience should focus on - Answer reductionism and generalization the idea that the mind and body are separate and made up of different matter - Answer dualism experimental ablations were first performed by - Answer Flourens __ believed that the body was controlled by the heart - Answer Aristotle __ is demonstrated by brain differences between different songbird species, larger spatial reasoning areas in the brain in a species that primarily hunts, more activity in the amygdala in an aggressive species - Answer functionalism __ refers to a situation when a particular characteristic allows an organism to be more reproductively successful, causing the characteristic to become more prevalent - Answer natural selection accidental changes in chromosomes of sperm or eggs that result in new characteristics - Answer mutations