Summary: Biological Psychology
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Lecture 1 - Background
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What did the Hippocrates claim?
That the brain controlled intelligence and it was involved in sensation. -
How does Aristotle's argument differ from today's view?
Aristotle: the heart is affected by emotion
Today: the brain is central to emotional processing and production
Aristotle: The brain is not connected with the sense organs
Today: Sensory connections are neural, not vascular -
What was Descartes main argument?
Dualism - the philosophical position that behaviour is controlled by two entities i.e mind and body are separate. -
What did Gall argue in terms of the mind and brain?
The brain is the organ of the mind -
What did Gall argue in terms of the shape of the brain?
The shape determined your personality (although there was a lack of scientific proof for this). -
What did Karl Kleist develop?
A functional map of the cerebral cortex from case notes of WW1 head-wound casualties. -
What did Golgi and Cajal disagree on?
Golgi - the nerve cells acted like the blood vessels of the body (wrong view)
Cajal - nerve cells are separate entities with their own functions (correct view) -
What did Bailey & von Bonin find?
Different parts of the brain are connected. -
What does the frontal lobe do in terms of our behaviour?
It is the 'breaks' of our behaviour.
(Phineas Gage had damage to his frontal lobe = he couldn't control his behaviour - he showed that the brain did control personality) -
What does fMRI study?
Studies brain function by tracking blood flow in the brain
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