Heredity & Environment
Genetic predispositions that influence one's behaviors.
What is Heredity (or nature)?
Division that includes brain and spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System (CNS)?
The lobe that is responsible for visual processing.
What is the occipital lobe?
The stage of sleep that is known for vivid dreams.
What is REM sleep?
The minimum stimulation needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time.
What is the Absolute Threshold?
The process by which neurotransmitters are reabsorbed into the sending neuron.
What is reuptake?
The structure in the brain that connects the right and left hemisphere.
What is Corpus Callosum?
This phenomenon occurs when REM sleep increases after deprivation.
What is REM Rebound?
Theory that states color vision is based on opposing color pairs.
What is Opponent-Process Theory?
The minimum level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse.
What is threshold?
This neural pathway involves sensory, interneurons, and motor neurons to allow rapid response.
What is a Reflex Arc?
The Broca's area, responsible for producing speech, is located in this lobe.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
A sleep disorder that involves repeated interruptions in breathing during sleep.
What is Sleep Apnea?
What are Cones?
The principle stating that a neuron either fires completely or not at all.
What is all-or-none principle?
A type of neuron that carries information from the body to the brain.
What is a sensory neuron?
The right hemisphere controls movements and receives sensory input from the left side of the body, and vice versa.
What is Contralateral Control?
What is Activation-Synthesis Theory?
The type of hearing loss that resulted from damage to the inner ear or auditory nerve.
What is Sensorineural Deafness?
This concept explains behavioral similarity, supported by the finding that identical twins raised separately showed similar personality traits, while adoptive siblings raised together do not.
What is Heritability (genetic influence on behavior)?
A drug that slows heart rate and stimulates digestion will activate this branch of nervous system.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
The 4 core components of the limbic system. (must get all 4)
What are Pituitary Gland, Hypothalamus, Hippocampus, and Amygdala?
Three benefits of sleep.
What is protecting immune system?
What are restoring and consolidating memories?
What is supporting growth?
What is feeding creative memories?
What is repairing brain tissues?
What are Pressure, Temperature (hot/cold), Pain, and Vibration?