Title: Psychology / Biopsychology / 01_Intro
Tags: Biopsychology::01_Intro Biopsychology::Semester_1

Q: What is the difference between Monoism and Dualism?
A: Dualism: The mind and body are separate entities.
Monoism (Materialism): What we know as mind is simple brain activity  -> Biopsychology (biological structures can produce complex behaviors)

Q: What is the basic difference between grey matter and white matter?
A: Grey: High concentration of nerve cell bodies
White: Mostly nerve fiber

Q: The nervous system is split into the [...] and the [...].
A: central nervous system; peripheral nervous system

Q: What belongs to the central nervous system?
A: The brain and the spinal cord
all other nerves belong to the peripheral nervous system

Q: How did Hippocrates' and Aristotle's view of the brain differ?
A: Hippocrates: Brain is the seat of intelligence and involved in thinking
Aristoteles: Brain is cooling the blood, heart is center of intellect.

Q: What gives the white matter its name?
A: The myelin sheaths insulating the nerve fiber.