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Consciousness
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The fact that we can communicate thoughts, perceptions, memories, and feelings. Consciousness and communication go hand in hand.
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Corpus callosum
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Large bundle of nerve fibers that connect the hemispheres of the brain
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Split-brain operation
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Treats epilepsy. Surgeon severs corpus callosum.
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Cerebral hemispheres
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Two symmetrical halves of the brain
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Generalization
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Psychologists...Type of scientific explanation; a general conclusion based on many observations of similar phenomena
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Reduction
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(Physiologists) A phenomenon is described in terms of the more elementary processes that underlie it.
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Reflex
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An automatic, stereotypical movement produced as a direct result of a stimulus.
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Model
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Mathematical/physical analogy for a physiological process
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Doctrine of specific nerve energies
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Muller's conclusion that because all nerve fibers carry the same type of message, sensory infor must be specified by the particular nerve fibers that are active.
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Experimental ablation
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Method in which the function of a part of the brain is interfered by observing animal behaviors after that part is damaged.
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Functionalism
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The principle that the best way to understand a biological phenomenon is to try to understand its useful functions for the organism.
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Natural selection
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Process by which inherited traits that confer a selective advantage become more prevalent in the population
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Mutation
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A change in the genetic in for contained in the chromosomes of sperm/eggs, which can be passed to offspring. Provides genetic variability. Most a deleterious.
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Selective Advantage
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Characteristic of an organism that permits it to produce more than the average number of offspring.
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Evolution
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Gradual change in structure/physiology as a result of natural selection.
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