PSYB65H3 Midterm: Textbook - Midterm.docx
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Module 1. 1: introduction to neuropsychology: the 10% myth, what is neuropsychology, heart, mind, and brain: the early history of neuropsychology, the mind-body problem. Module 1. 1: introduction to neuropsychology: the 10% myth. [type the document title: what is neuropsychology, heart, mind, and brain: the early history of neuropsychology, the mind-body problem. Module 1. 2: the recent history of neuropsychology: cataloguing the effects of lesions, focus on the neuron, the brain mappers, functional neurosurgery, the paradigm shift in neuropsychology. Myth: humans use only 10% of their brain. Marie-jean-pierre flourens & karl lashley animals were able to perform basic function after almost 90% of their brains were damaged. Neuropsychology the study of the relation between behaviour and the activity of the brain. Assumes that an individual"s behaviour is at least in part the result of the activity in the brain. Reflexive theory of the control of behaviour the flow of animal spirits through valvules within nervous tissue filaments.
