AN INTRODUCTION TO - (Lecture Notes Only) Catherine Smith For AN INT...

Instructor’s Resources (Lecture Notes Only) Catherine Smith For

AN INTRODUCTION TO

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Sixth Edition Bryan Kolb Ian Q. Whishaw

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Contents Preface CHAPTER 1 What Are the Origins of Brain and Behavior?CHAPTER 2 What Is the Nervous System’s Functional Anatomy?CHAPTER 3 What Are the Nervous System’s Functional Units?CHAPTER 4 How Do Neurons Use Electrical Signals to Transmit Information CHAPTER 5 How Do Neurons Communicate and Adapt?CHAPTER 6 How Do Drugs and Hormones Influence Brain and Behavior?CHAPTER 7 How Do We Study the Brain’s Structures and Functions?CHAPTER 8 How Does the Nervous System Develop and Adapt?CHAPTER 9 How Do We Sense, Perceive, and See the World?CHAPTER 10 How Do We Hear, Speak, and Make Music?CHAPTER 11 How Does the Nervous System Respond to Stimulation and Produce Movement?CHAPTER 12 What Causes Emotional and Motivated Behavior?CHAPTER 13 Why Do We Sleep and Dream?CHAPTER 14 How Do We Learn and Remember?CHAPTER 15 How Does the Brain Think?CHAPTER 16 What Happens When the Brain Misbehaves? 2 / 4

C H A P T E R

1 What Are the Origins of Brain and Behavior?

LECTURE OUTLINE

THE BRAIN IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

• Why Study Brain and Behavior?

II. What Is the Brain?III. What Is Behavior?

PERSPECTIVES ON BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

• Aristotle and Mentalism

II. Descartes and Dualism III. Darwin and Materialism

• Evolution by Natural Selection
• Natural Selection and Heritable Factors
• Interplay of Genes, Environment, and Experience
• Summarizing Materialism

IV. Contemporary Perspectives on Brain and Behavior

• The Separate Realms of Science and Belief

EVOLUTION OF BRAINS AND OF BEHAVIOR

• Origin of Brain Cells and Brains 3 / 4

II. Evolution of Nervous Systems in Animals III. Chordate Nervous System

EVOLUTION OF THE HUMAN BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

I. Humans: Members of the Primate Order

II. Australopithecus: Our Distant Ancestor

III. The First Humans IV. Relating Brain Size and Behavior

• Estimating Relative Brain–Body Size
• Counting Brain Cells
• Brain Cell Connections
• Why the Hominid Brain Enlarged
• Climate and the Evolving Hominid Brain
• The Primate Lifestyle
• Changes in Hominid Physiology
• Alerted Maturation
• The Human Genome

MODERN HUMAN BRAIN SIZE AND INTELLIGENCE

• Meaning of Human Brain Size Comparisons

II. Acquisition of Culture

SUMMARY

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Identify the structures of the brain.
• Define behavior.
• Explain the relationship between the nervous system and behavior.
• Describe the structure of the nervous system.
• Describe the contributions of Aristotle, Descartes, and Darwin regarding

the relationship between the brain and behavior.

• Describe the two tests used by Descartes to determine the possession of a

mind.

• Describe the concept of materialism as proposed by Darwin.
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