 | Term | Definition |
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Sacks |
Had a patient called Dr P who had visual agnosia (unable to distinguish objects) |
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Sperry |
Conducted experiments on patients with severed corpus callosums due to severe epilepsy. Observed differences between the left and right hemispheres |
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Schacter & Singer |
Tested the two-factor theory of emotion using 184 male participants by injecting them with adrenalin but telling them that this was suproxin. |
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Raine |
Compared murderer's brains who had brain injury with normal people. |
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Descartes |
Famous for Dualism - that the mind and body are separate entities. |
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De La Mettrie |
Found that having a physical condition affected the mind ie a physical condition affects the nonphysical. |
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Darwin |
Formulated the "theory of evolution" based on "natural selection" and mechanism of survival of the fittest. |
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Lamarck |
Presented the theory that traits are obtained from the environment. for example, giraffes have long necks because they have to stretch their necks. |
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Lorenz |
Found that many avian organisms create a social bond between themselves and the first moving object they see when they are just hatched. |
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Siffre |
Extended the circadian rhythm to 25 hours instead of 24 hours by staying in a cave with controlled lighting. |
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Me |
Sucks |
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Broca |
Found by autopsy that a person couldn't speak because of damage to a part of the brain. |
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Wernicke |
Found an area of the brain related to comprehension of speech. |
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Lashley |
Attempted to find 'memory' area by creating lesions in rats. Didn't find one particular part |
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Olds and Milner |
Rats with electrodes in their hypothalamus activated a lever 100x/min to receive pleasure; ignored food and water |
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Delgado |
Cats given EBS can initiate predatory aggression depending on the stimulated part of the brain |
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