PSCH 366- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 46 pages long!)
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Each part of the brain functions only 1 thing. Franz gall: became convinced that the brain was the organ of the mind and that innate. Localization of function faculties were localized in specific regions of the cerebral cortex. Aggregate field: the whole brain participated in behavior. Gall"s phrenology: character could be divined through palpating the skull hypothesized that if a person used one of the faculties with greater frequency, the part of. All sensations, all perceptions, and all volitions occupy the same seat in these (cerebral) organs. The faculty of sensation, perception and volition is then essentially one faculty. Ramon y cajal (father of modern neuroscience: identify the unitary nature of neuron. The neuron doctrine is the concept that the nervous system is made up of individual. It disputed syncytium- brain seen as a continuous mass of tissue that shares a common cells.
