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1.1 What is psychology? Read Online
1.2 History of psychology Read Online
Clive Wearing is an accomplished musician who lost his ability to form new memories when he became sick at the age of 46. While he can remember how to play the piano perfectly, he cannot remember what he ate for breakfast just an hour ago (Sacks, 2007). James Wannerton experiences a taste sensation that is associated with the sound of words. His former girlfriend’s name tastes like rhubarb (Mundasad, 2013). John Nash is a brilliant mathematician and Nobel Prize winner. However, while he was a professor at MIT, he would tell people that the New York Times contained coded messages from extraterrestrial beings that were intended for him. He also began to hear voices and became suspicious of the people around him. Soon thereafter, Nash was diagnosed with schizophrenia and admitted to a state-run mental institution (O’Connor&Robertson, 2002). Nash was the subject of the 2001 movie A Beautiful Mind . Why did these people have these experiences? How does the human brain work? And what is the connection between the brain’s internal processes and people’s external behaviors? This textbook will introduce you to various ways that the field of psychology has explored these questions.
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Question: This theory suggests that many behaviors, such as thinking, are only partly controlled by mechanical or logical forces
Choices:
materialism
trepination
vitalism
cell doctrine
Question: This person said the heart controlled everything
Choices:
galen
descartes
aristotle
hippocrates
Question: This is an ancient surgical operations that involves cutting, scraping, chiseling, or drilling a pluglike piece of bone from the skull
Choices:
trephination
localization
phrenology
aphasia
Question: This person was the first to realize the contralateral control of brain
Choices:
Galen
Descartes
Aristotle
Hippocrates
Question: Neuropsychology is the study of _________
Choices:
the brain
brain-behavior relationships
nature
Question: This area is found in the frontal lobe and plays an important role in speech
Choices:
brocas area
lurias area
wernickes area
vesalius area
Question: This person believed that the ventricles of brain are where all mental processes take place which is called _______.
Choices:
Galen, cell doctrine
descarted, cardiac hypothesis
aristotle, cell doctrine
hippocrates, cardiac hypothesis
Question: This theory suggests that logical forces, such as matter in motion, determine brain-behavior functions.
Choices:
materialism
vitalism
trepination
cell doctrine
Question: this person was responsible for the theory that said the brain just cooled the warm blood coming from the heart
Choices:
galen, cell doctrine
descartes, cardiac hypothesis
aristotle, cell doctrine
hippocrates, cardiac hypothesis
Question: Luria says each area of the nervous system is involved in one of 3 functional units, what are the three sections of the nervous system and what are the three functional units they correspond to.
Choices:
brainstem, arousal and muscle tone posterior area, executive panning frontal/prefontal, sensory/processing
brainstem, sensory/processing posterior, arousal and muscle tone frontal/prefontal, executive planning
brainstem, arousal and muscle tone posterior areas, sensory/processing frontal/prefrontal, executive planning
Question: This person found the area of the brain in the temporal lobe that has to do with understanding language.
Choices:
Paul Broca
Luria
Muriel Lezak
Carl Wernicke