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What is Behaviour?
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Animals produce behaviours that are either _____ or _____
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What are Innate behaviours
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 ‣ Relatively Fixed (Innate) Behaviours ‣ Dependent on heredity ‣ Eating, for crossbills, is a xed behavioural pattern that is inherited and does not require much modi cation through learning |
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What are Learned Behaviours
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 ‣ Relatively Flexible Behaviours ‣ Dependent on learning ‣ Roof rats can eat pinecones e ciently only if they are taught to do so by an experienced mother eg learned social or cultural passing down of info from on generation to the next |
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How does complexity of behaviour differ?
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At what levels can neural function be defined?
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-The brain-Neural Cells (neurons and glia)
-neurotransmitters --> we can now record neural function at all of these different levels |
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What brain structure is responsible for most conscious behaviours?
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Forbrain
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What brain structure is the source of behaviour in simpler animals?
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Brainstem
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What are the four lobes of the brain and their general function
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All nerve processes and neurons outside the CNS connect to:
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 Sensory receptors muscles Internal organs |
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Which age group is most likely to suffer head injuries due to falls?
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Children and older adults
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Does neural function cause behaviour or does behaviour cause neural function?
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Both!
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Which age group is most likely to suffer head injury?
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 Males between 15-30 -especially from motorcycle or car accidents |
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What is the most common form of brain damage in people younger than 40?
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Head injury
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Movement of the brain within the skull (eg during coup and contre coup action in head injuries) ,may cause
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