Trivia for Psychology/neuroscience Nerds

[felixthecoach]

1. Who is this?

2. Who is the Father of Behaviorism?

3. What is this pink area of the brain and what does it do?

4. What is diffusion of responsibility?

Add more if you like. (oh, and if you can get away with not using Wiki to answer these, you win a cookie)

 

[AntiSkill42]

1. the "homunculus" usually displayed along the related brain regions.
2. I'ld say it bases on pawlows work but I'ld have to look that one up
3. this is above fissura lateralis sylvii. Language processing region (Wernicke region)
4. Because its natural to try to reap the rewards of time and energy invested in studying by demonstrating knowledge. (You're showing off...)

 

[felixthecoach]

Damn you're fast. although i'm pretty sure number 2 is BF Skinner

and number 3 might be Broca's area. i cant remember the locations

4, yes you win. i'm showing off, now i changed the question.


man i need to make harder questions

 

[AntiSkill42]

sry... that wasn't really showing off. Nice quiz!

I just looked this here up: Skinner developed & promoted it. The basics were developed by Edward Thorndike and John B. Watson.

could be broca area, too.
I suck in neuroanatomy. let me just get a real book...
...I was definitely wrong about wernicke, hes a bit down at the end of the fissura lateralis sylvii
Brodman are 3,1,2. Primary sensory region is more like it.
but hard to tell on that picture. sry.

 

[felixthecoach]

Yeah, well, maybe you can answer this, is the language center mirrored on the other side of the brain or on just a single hemisphere?

 

[AntiSkill42]

my first reply (without thinking and looking up) -yes it is.

But first I'd have to look up some things.
Language center...
first there would be the processing of acoustic information in Area41 ("Heschlsche querwindungen... gyri?). and secondary 42.
Then the Wernicke sensory region (Brodman Area 39, 40) -processing incoming information related to language.

Since there is always a dominant hemisphere you might argue against that.

wikipedia says:

"The left hemisphere is usually dominant in right-handed people, although bilateral activations are not uncommon in the area of syntactic processing. It is now accepted that the right hemisphere plays an important role in the processing of suprasegmental acoustic features like prosody.

Most areas of speech processing develop in the second year of life in the dominant half (hemisphere) of the brain, which often (though not necessarily) corresponds to the opposite of the dominant hand. 98 percent of right-handed people are left-hemisphere dominant, and the majority of left-handed people as well."