Exam 1: What Are the Origins of Brain and Behavior 

Mentalism is:

The encephalization quotient is determined by:

What is the radiator hypothesis? How does it explain the evolution of the human brain?

Which of our human ancestors had the largest brain size?

What does "plasticity" refer to?

Compared with Australopithecus skulls, human skulls contain holes through which blood vessels could pass. This would have led to:

A behavior that is typical of all members of a species is called:

_____ are ideas, behaviors, or styles that spread from person to person in a culture and can be influenced by brain structure.

Research has indicated that the pineal body is responsible for _____ rather than controlling human behavior.

The difficulty in explaining how a nonmaterial mind can influence a material body is called the:

The human cerebellum contains about _____ as many neurons as the cerebrum.

How might the correlation Milton (2003) found in primates between fruit foraging and larger brains be explained in evolutionary terms?

Chordates are any organisms that have a:

The notion that differential success in the reproduction of characteristics results from interactions between organisms and their environment is known as:

Explain and give an example of the concept of embodied behavior.

The notion that the mind resides in the pineal body comes from:

Define species-typical behavior. How does this behavior influence our comparisons of intelligence across species?

How much of the body's resources does the brain use?

The first brain evolved approximately:

The _____ is a nonmaterial entity that is responsible for intelligence, attention, awareness, and consciousness.