BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR AN INTRODUCTION TO
BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY SHEET 2026 SOLVED
QUESTIONS PREMIUM BUNDLE
◉ Behavioral neuroscience examines how ____.
Answer: experience or environment modify the brain and behavior
◉ Neuroscience.
Answer: study of the nervous system
◉ biological psychology/ biopsychology/ psychobiology.
Answer: synonyms for behavioral neuroscience
◉ neurobiology.
Answer: same as neuroscience, but used more in biology
◉ neurology.
Answer: branch of medicine that studies brain and nervous system
and their diseases
,◉ neuropsychology.
Answer: more about the use of tests/imaging to diagnose disorders
◉ psychophysics.
Answer: not neuroscience; investigates relationship between
physical stimuli and how they affect sensation
◉ 4 biological explanations of behavior.
Answer: descriptive, evolutionary, developmental, mechanistic
◉ descriptive explanation of behavior.
Answer: what does behavior look like
◉ evolutionary explanation of behavior.
Answer: how behavior/function diversified from earlier/less
complex species
◉ developmental explanation of behavior.
Answer: biological characteristics over the life span
◉ mechanistic explanation of behavior.
,Answer: relate a behavior to an activity/circuit/cell/molecule in the
brain
◉ neurons.
Answer: basic elements for connectivity in the brain
◉ the ____ of neurons are critically important.
Answer: spatial relationships
◉ reductionism.
Answer: reduce the nature of complex things to their interactions or
more fundamental parts (complex system is just a sum of its parts)
◉ emergentism.
Answer: system is more than a sum of its parts (new properties
emerge from the sum of the others)
◉ minde-body problem.
Answer: reconciling the relationship between mental processes and
bodily processes
◉ dualism.
, Answer: different substances that exist independently; one
substance for mind and other for body
◉ monism.
Answer: universe is only made of one substance
◉ 3 types of monism.
Answer: materialism, mentalism, identity position
◉ materialism.
Answer: everything that exists is physical/material
◉ mentalism.
Answer: both physical and psychological phenomena are mentally
constructed --> everything is the mind
◉ identity position.
Answer: mental processes and brain processes are the same but
described in different terms
◉ localization theory.
Answer: different parts of the brain have different functions;
structures that look same/different have same/different functions
BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY SHEET 2026 SOLVED
QUESTIONS PREMIUM BUNDLE
◉ Behavioral neuroscience examines how ____.
Answer: experience or environment modify the brain and behavior
◉ Neuroscience.
Answer: study of the nervous system
◉ biological psychology/ biopsychology/ psychobiology.
Answer: synonyms for behavioral neuroscience
◉ neurobiology.
Answer: same as neuroscience, but used more in biology
◉ neurology.
Answer: branch of medicine that studies brain and nervous system
and their diseases
,◉ neuropsychology.
Answer: more about the use of tests/imaging to diagnose disorders
◉ psychophysics.
Answer: not neuroscience; investigates relationship between
physical stimuli and how they affect sensation
◉ 4 biological explanations of behavior.
Answer: descriptive, evolutionary, developmental, mechanistic
◉ descriptive explanation of behavior.
Answer: what does behavior look like
◉ evolutionary explanation of behavior.
Answer: how behavior/function diversified from earlier/less
complex species
◉ developmental explanation of behavior.
Answer: biological characteristics over the life span
◉ mechanistic explanation of behavior.
,Answer: relate a behavior to an activity/circuit/cell/molecule in the
brain
◉ neurons.
Answer: basic elements for connectivity in the brain
◉ the ____ of neurons are critically important.
Answer: spatial relationships
◉ reductionism.
Answer: reduce the nature of complex things to their interactions or
more fundamental parts (complex system is just a sum of its parts)
◉ emergentism.
Answer: system is more than a sum of its parts (new properties
emerge from the sum of the others)
◉ minde-body problem.
Answer: reconciling the relationship between mental processes and
bodily processes
◉ dualism.
, Answer: different substances that exist independently; one
substance for mind and other for body
◉ monism.
Answer: universe is only made of one substance
◉ 3 types of monism.
Answer: materialism, mentalism, identity position
◉ materialism.
Answer: everything that exists is physical/material
◉ mentalism.
Answer: both physical and psychological phenomena are mentally
constructed --> everything is the mind
◉ identity position.
Answer: mental processes and brain processes are the same but
described in different terms
◉ localization theory.
Answer: different parts of the brain have different functions;
structures that look same/different have same/different functions
