perspective and study
Definition of biological psychology
What is a field of study combining the theories and methods of psychology with those of biology and other related areas?
One continuous tissue protected by bone, extending down the back
What is the central nervous system or brain and spine?
Your brain and spinal cord (one continuous tissue)
What is the central nervous system
A microscopic building block responsible for sending and receiving neural messages.
What is a neuron?
Largest organ on the human body
What is skin?
Behaviour can be explained by biological factors (i.e. genes)
What is one fundamental assumption of psychology?
Just above medulla, manages sleep, arousal, facial expression
What are the Pons?
Criteria for the peripheral nervous system
What is nerves extending anywhere outside the spinal cord
About how many neurons does the human brain have
What is 100 billion?
What is about 1 in 1 million?
The first psychologist, founded structuralism
Who was Wilhelm Wundt?
A bundle of axons connecting two cerebral hemispheres
What is the corpus callosum?
Responsible for fight-or-flight phenomenon
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
What is cortisol
Number one cause of death global
What is cardiovascular disease?
To measure the degree of similarity between two subjects/subject groups
What is the Degree of Concordance?
The area of the brain in which Phineas Gage sustained irreversible damage, causing social defects.
What is the left frontal lobe or frontal lobe?
Forms long term memories and stores/retrieves memories located elsewhere.
What is the hippocampus?
The protective layer of lipids and proteins wrapped around the axon body of a neuron
What is the myelin sheath?
What is the only letter of the alphabet not present in the name of any US state?
What is Q
injecting radioactive tracers to study brain function
What is a PET scan?
The processing that the parietal lobe is PRIMARILY responsible for.
What is primary somatosensory cortex?
The lobes that work together to fully process visual stimulus.
What is frontal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe?
How does a synapse occur?
Synaptic vesicles are released after action potential reaches the terminal, and they release neurotransmitters to be received by the receptors on the other neuron's axon terminal.
Largest tree on earth by volume
What is the General Sherman Tree (a giant sequoia)?