Past Scholars
He believed that the brain functioned as a cooling system for blood from the heart.
Aristotle
A general term used to describe the manipulated aspect of any experiment.
What is an independent variable?
This type of cell regenerates throughout the life cycle.
What is a glial cell?
This system prepares the body to “rest and digest”.
What is the parasympathetic system?
This orientation refers to "toward the belly".
What is "ventral"?
He proposed a mechanism for the production of spinal reflexes.
René Descartes
This approach is when the experimenter manipulates body structure or function and looks for resultant changes in behavior.
What is somatic intervention?
This is the continual remodeling of synapses on a neuron’s dendrites and cell body.
What is neural plasticity?
There are 12 of spinal nerves in this region.
What is the thoracic region?
These are also referred to as ridges of the cortex.
What are gyri?
He authored the book that signaled the beginnings of a modern approach to biological psychology.
William James
This group is used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects in a research study compares.
What is a control group?
This type of neuron has a single dendrite and axon.
What is a Bipolar neuron?
The cranial nerves, the spinal nerves and the autonomic nervous system.
What are the three principal components of the PNS?
The temporal lobes are separated from the frontal and parietal lobes by this.
What is the Sylvian fissure?
This famed physician noted the behavioral changes associated with head injuries in gladiators.
Galen
The experimental approach in which behavior is the independent variable, and the change in the body is the dependent variable.
Behavioral intervention
This type of stain can be used to label all types of cell bodies.
What is a Nissl stain?
The postganglionic projections of the sympathetic division release this neurotransmitter.
What is norepinephrine?
Part of this major lobe of the cerebral cortex is involved in hearing.
What is the temporal lobe?
He proposed a hypothesis that explains how neurons strengthen their connections as a consequence of experiences.
Donald O Hebb
In order to study a system, this scientific strategy breaks it down into increasingly smaller parts in order to better understand it.
Reductionism
These cells perform the process of myelination.
What are oligodendrocytes?
This root gives rise to the motor fibers innervating muscles and glands.
What is the ventral root?
The cortex, thalamus, basal ganglia and limbic system originate in this brain area during development.
What is the forebrain?