Genes, Experience & Brain Research
The passing of genetic information from biological parents to children is called this.
What is Heredity
This lobe at the back of the brain processes visual information.
What is the Occipital Lobe
This structure helps coordinate balance and smooth movement.
What is the Cerebellum
These neurons carry information from sensory receptors toward the CNS.
What are Sensory Neurons.
This neurotransmitter is associated with reward, motivation, and movement.
What is Dopamine
This method uses electrodes on the scalp to record electrical activity in the brain.
What is an EEG
You feel your phone vibrate in your pocket. Which lobe processes this body sensation?
What is the Parietal Lobe
This sensory “mailroom” directs incoming information to appropriate areas of the cortex.
This division controls voluntary movement of skeletal muscles.
What is the Somatic Nervous System
This neurotransmitter is involved in muscle contraction as well as learning and memory.
This inherited likelihood raises someone’s chance of developing a condition without guaranteeing it.
What is genetic predisposition
This area, usually in the left frontal lobe, is important for producing speech.
What is Broca's Area
A patient can hold a conversation but has difficulty forming new memories of people they meet. Which structure is most closely linked to the difficulty?
What is Hippocampus
After a scare passes, this division helps slow the heart rate and return the body toward rest.
What is the Parasympathetic Nervous System
This is the CNS’s primary excitatory neurotransmitter and is important for learning and memory.
What is Glutamate
A psychologist studies people with damage to a particular brain area to learn what that area does. What research approach is this?
What is Lesion Research
A patient speaks fluently, but the words make little sense and the patient struggles to understand questions. Which disorder best fits?
What is Wernicke's Aphasia
The hypothalamus sends signals to this “master gland,” which helps regulate hormone release throughout the body.
What is the pituitary gland
This is the minimum stimulation needed to trigger an action potential called?
What is threshold
One chemical helps transmit pain signals; another helps reduce the perception of pain. Name both.
What is Substance P and Endorphins
A trait runs in a family. Why can’t a family study alone show that genes caused it?
Family members often share both genes and environments.
A split-brain patient can select an object shown only in the left visual field but struggles to name it aloud. Why?
The right hemisphere receives the image, but the severed corpus callosum limits sharing that information with the typically language dominant left hemisphere.
A student hears a fire alarm, becomes alert, and feels afraid. Name one structure especially involved in alertness and one especially involved in fear.
What is the RAS and Amygdala
A neuron has just fired and briefly cannot fire again while it resets. What is this period called?
What is Refractory Period
During a threat, one messenger helps prepare the body for action, while another is especially associated with alertness and attention. Name them in that order.
What is Adrenaline and Norepinephrine