Psychobiology & Cognitivism

Attempts to explain psychological phenomena in terms of their biological foundations, especially with the study of nervous systems and neurons

• Psychobiology

• Evolutionary Psychology

• Genetic Approach

• Cognitive Psychology

Karl Lashley thought that our brain operate in the way that behaviorists suggested

• True

• False

Mass action finding by Karl Lashley suggested that ...

• Loss of ability is linked to the location of cortex damage, so the cortex operates parts-by-parts

• Loss of ability is linked to the location of cortex damage, so the cortex operates as a whole

• Loss of ability is linked to the amount of cortex damage, so the cortex operates as a whole

• Loss of ability is linked to the amount of cortex damage, so the cortex operates parts-by-parts

To destroy a brain function (for example, visual function of the brain), one must destroy all parts of the brain associated with that function. This is called as ....

• Engram

• Multipotentiality

• Milgram

• Equipotentiality

When we look at a table, our attention shifts from the wood surface, to the pointy sides, to the leg of the table. Each shift of attention causes different neurons to fire, and, at first, these neurons fire independently of the others. Eventually, they become neurological package which experience table.

This concept is called as ...

• Cell unity

• Cell cooperation

• Cell assembly

• Cell blast

According to Hebb, adult learning is characterized by associationism principles, while child learning is characterized by gestalt principles

• True

• False

What is corpus callosum?

• mass of fibers connecting the eyes and the cortex diagonally

• mass of fibers connecting two halves of the cortex

• mass of fibers connecting neurons together in a complex assembly

• mass of fibers connecting the cortex with lymbic systems

Optic chiasm is the discovery by Roger W. Sperry. He found that information coming from .... is projected to the side of the cortex opposite to that organ

• Hand

• Ear

• Eye

• Leg

According to the findings by Sperry, some people are dominated by left-brain while others by right-brain. These parts of the brain hemisphere have different function.

• True

• False

According to David Buss, the primary goal in life is to perpetuate copies of our genes into the next generation. This approach is called ...

• Genetic & Hereditary Approach

• Human Sociobiology

• Evolutionary Psychology

• Cognitive Neuroscience