PSYC 375 Midterm 1 Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
What are the 5 reasons its important to study Brain and Behavior? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. how brain produces behavior is an important
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unanswered question |
2. its the most complex organ and found in many different groups of
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animals
3. behavioral disorders can be explained and cured
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4. gives a better understanding of diversity
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5. brings insight to other fields of knowledge
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what is behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-action, observable but
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fleeting. patterns in time (thinking)
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what is the brain - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-living tissue and organ, can be
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conscious in the absence of much overt behavior or cues from the
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environment
how does temporal isolation affect the brain? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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still able to maintain a clock, even in total isolation. the sun is not the
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,clock, behaviors are internally timed, therefore does not require
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external stimulus, though it does help.
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What is the Clive Wearing case? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-contracted
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encephalitis, creating damage to his hippocampus. he is unable to
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develop new memories (7-30 seconds), aware of history, but
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facts/details are unable to be held in his memory. part of brain still
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processing implicit memory- play piano by memory
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explain the mentalism perspective on brain and behavior - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial | | | | | | | | |
mind (Aristotle 384-322BCE). believed the brain cooled the blood and
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has no role in producing behavior. psyche is an entity once proposed to
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be the source of human behavior
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explain the dualism perspective on brain and behavior - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-two types of stuff (physical and non physical). Rene | | | | | | | | |
Descartes (1595-1650) he believed that both a nonmaterial mind and
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the material body contributed to behavior, and the mind is unique to
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humans. proposed that information between the mind and body passes
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through the brain, via pineal gland. mind regulated behavior b directing
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the flow of ventricular fluid to the muscles
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what are the issues with dualism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the pineal
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gland is involved in biological rhythms, but not in intelligence or
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behavioral control. movement is not elicited via the flow of fluid from
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, ventricles. nonmaterial influences on the body would violate the law of
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conservation of energy | |
explain the materialism perspective on brain and behavior - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-behavior can be fully explained by the workings of the | | | | | | | | | |
nervous system, without explanatory recourse to an immaterial mind.
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supported by the evolutionary theory of Alfred Wallace and Charles
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Darwin, many similarities among species. all concepts of mind can be
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reduced to the workings of the brain by orchestrated firing of neurons
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what is survival of the fittest - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-differential
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success in the reproduction of different characteristics results from the
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interactions of organisms with their environment, new species evolve
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and existing species change over time
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how does theory of evolution relate to brain and behavior? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-kanzi learned faster than mom through observation, | | | | | | |
dualism would say kanzi doesn't have a mind, only a brain
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what are the three implications for brain and behavior? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-1. because all species are related, their brains must be | | | | | | | | | |
related (use simpler animals to understand humans)
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2. because all animal species are related, their behavior must be related
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(emotional expression is similar) | | |
With Correct Answers
What are the 5 reasons its important to study Brain and Behavior? -
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. how brain produces behavior is an important
| | | | | | | | |
unanswered question |
2. its the most complex organ and found in many different groups of
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
animals
3. behavioral disorders can be explained and cured
| | | | | | | |
4. gives a better understanding of diversity
| | | | | |
5. brings insight to other fields of knowledge
| | | | | | |
what is behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-action, observable but
| | | | | | | |
fleeting. patterns in time (thinking)
| | | |
what is the brain - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-living tissue and organ, can be
| | | | | | | | | | |
conscious in the absence of much overt behavior or cues from the
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
environment
how does temporal isolation affect the brain? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | | |
still able to maintain a clock, even in total isolation. the sun is not the
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
,clock, behaviors are internally timed, therefore does not require
| | | | | | | | |
external stimulus, though it does help.
| | | | |
What is the Clive Wearing case? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-contracted
| | | | | | | | |
encephalitis, creating damage to his hippocampus. he is unable to
| | | | | | | | | |
develop new memories (7-30 seconds), aware of history, but
| | | | | | | |
facts/details are unable to be held in his memory. part of brain still
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
processing implicit memory- play piano by memory
| | | | | |
explain the mentalism perspective on brain and behavior - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-explanation of behavior as a function of the nonmaterial | | | | | | | | |
mind (Aristotle 384-322BCE). believed the brain cooled the blood and
| | | | | | | | | |
has no role in producing behavior. psyche is an entity once proposed to
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
be the source of human behavior
| | | | |
explain the dualism perspective on brain and behavior - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-two types of stuff (physical and non physical). Rene | | | | | | | | |
Descartes (1595-1650) he believed that both a nonmaterial mind and
| | | | | | | | | |
the material body contributed to behavior, and the mind is unique to
| | | | | | | | | | | |
humans. proposed that information between the mind and body passes
| | | | | | | | | |
through the brain, via pineal gland. mind regulated behavior b directing
| | | | | | | | | | |
the flow of ventricular fluid to the muscles
| | | | | | |
what are the issues with dualism? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the pineal
| | | | | | | | | |
gland is involved in biological rhythms, but not in intelligence or
| | | | | | | | | | |
behavioral control. movement is not elicited via the flow of fluid from
| | | | | | | | | | | |
, ventricles. nonmaterial influences on the body would violate the law of
| | | | | | | | | | |
conservation of energy | |
explain the materialism perspective on brain and behavior - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-behavior can be fully explained by the workings of the | | | | | | | | | |
nervous system, without explanatory recourse to an immaterial mind.
| | | | | | | | |
supported by the evolutionary theory of Alfred Wallace and Charles
| | | | | | | | | |
Darwin, many similarities among species. all concepts of mind can be
| | | | | | | | | | |
reduced to the workings of the brain by orchestrated firing of neurons
| | | | | | | | | | |
what is survival of the fittest - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-differential
| | | | | | | | |
success in the reproduction of different characteristics results from the
| | | | | | | | | |
interactions of organisms with their environment, new species evolve
| | | | | | | | |
and existing species change over time
| | | | |
how does theory of evolution relate to brain and behavior? - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-kanzi learned faster than mom through observation, | | | | | | |
dualism would say kanzi doesn't have a mind, only a brain
| | | | | | | | | |
what are the three implications for brain and behavior? - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-1. because all species are related, their brains must be | | | | | | | | | |
related (use simpler animals to understand humans)
| | | | | |
2. because all animal species are related, their behavior must be related
| | | | | | | | | | | |
(emotional expression is similar) | | |
