What are the branch-like extensions of the neuron which are the reception part of the structure?
What is the dendrites
100
Jeremy can just barely hear the music coming out of his headphones. What does this mean sensation-wise?
What is the sound has passed the absolute threshold
100
What is at least one characteristic of frontal lobe damage?
What is irritability, poor judgement, poor decision making
100
The mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating…what's this?
What is cognition
100
Jim has been deprived of sleep in the past week. What would you expect to see in relation to the amount of REM he has in the nights following his sleep deprivation period?
What is he would have a REM sleep rebound, where his REM sleep would increase
200
What is the name of the excitatory or inhibitory signals present in the neuron?
What is neurotransmitters
200
What allows us to create mental images in 3-D?
What is depth perception
200
A split-brain patient is presented with a picture of a ball to his left hemisphere. Will he be able to say that he sees a ball? If not, what WILL he be able to do?
What is he will be able to say that he sees a ball because the left hemisphere is responsible for language.
200
A scientist has been working on a chemical problem for a year. He is stuck on one specific point of composition and hasn't been able to take a step back from it since he encountered the problem. He is experiencing what phenomenon?
What is fixation
200
What are two effects of sleep loss?
What is weight gain, irritability, high blood pressure, memory impairment, slow movement, less creativity, impairs communication
300
After a neuron fires a signal onto the next neuron, what stage does it enter/re-enter?
What is resting state
300
Alot of commercials in the past flashed words during the airtime in an attempt to influence the consumer. What is this called?
What is subliminal messaging
300
Maggie has brain damage in a car accident at the age of four. By year five, she has regained half of her functioning that was lost in the car accident. What brain concept is responsible for this?
What is brain plasticity
300
This person believed there is a universal grammar – e.g., nouns, verbs, adjectives that all humans possess. He also posed that humans are built with a built-in readiness to learn language. Who was this?
What is Chomsky
300
What did Freud mean by manifest content of our dreams? What did he mean by latent content?
What is manifest content: remembered story of the dream
latent content: underlying meaning of the dream
400
What are the main three functions of myelin sheaths?
What is
1. Insulate the axon
2. Protect the axon
3. Speed up neural impulse
400
Individuals passing through the city of Kaukauna notice a bothersome odor. On the contrary, residents of Kaukauna are known to say that they no longer even notice the odor. What is the phenomena called?
What is sensory adaptation
400
John has had alot to drink and is stumbling around trying to find his way home. He keeps falling over and can't seem to stay on his feet. Which brain part is probably responsible for this?
What is the cerebellum
400
If a test is testing exactly what you want it to be assessing, what factor is it high in? If said test comes up with the same results over and over, through multiple testing scenarios, what factor is it high in?
What is validity; reliability
400
Joey is working on his homework and all of a sudden falls dead asleep. What does he suffer from?
What is narcolepsy
500
What's the function of a glial cell?
What is produce myelin to coat the axon of a neuron
500
People are more likely to rate someone as _______ after holding a ______ drink.
What is warm; warm.
500
Amy is walking to her car when she hears a twig crack in the woods behind her. She becomes scared and now realizes her heart is racing and her breathing is rapid. What part of the brain is responsible for this change in affect?
What is the medulla
500
Marvin is worried about his performance in his upcoming basketball game. He feels that others believe he is only good at basketball, among his other sports, because of his race. This belief is part of the concept called __________.