This research method involves an in-depth study of a single individual, often used for rare disorders.
What is a case study?
This monoamine is produced from tryptophan and regulates sleep, appetite, and mood; low levels are associated with depression
What is serotonin?
These two photoreceptor types mediate scotopic (low-light) and photopic (daylight/color) vision respectively.
What are rods (scotopic) and cones (photopic)?
This method observes subjects in their natural environments without intervention.
What is naturalistic observation?
what is regulation and cordination of movement, posture and balance
what is the function of the cerebellum
This neurotransmitter is most closely linked to muscle movement and is deficient in Alzheimer’s disease.
What is acetylcholine?
A patient has loss of central vision (a central scotoma) but peripheral vision largely intact. Which structure is likely damaged?
What is the fovea or macula of the retina?
This term refers to the degree to which a test measures what it claims to measure.
What is validity?
This inhibitory neurotransmitter helps reduce anxiety and is increased by benzodiazepines
Gaba
A patient bumps into objects on their right side and reports they don't notice things there; visual fields otherwise intact.
PARIETAL LOBE
Researchers use this procedure to prevent participants' expectations from influencing results.
What is a placebo/control condition?
What is c) four
How many lobes make up the brain a) 3 b)10 c)4
This neurotransmitter is involved in reward, motivation, and motor control; loss of neurons producing it is linked to Parkinson’s disease.
Dopamine
A head injury leads to loss of peripheral vision in both eyes while central vision remains. Which structure is most likely compressed?
What is the optic chiasm?
When neither participants nor experimenters know who receives the treatment, the study is called this
What is a double-blind procedure?
This neurotransmitter acts as both a neurotransmitter and a hormone, increasing arousal and alertness during the fight-or-flight response.
What is norepinephrine?
After walking from a bright sunny street into a dimly lit movie theater, you initially can't see well, but within a few minutes your eyes adjust and you begin to see much better. Name the process that allows this improvement, identify the photoreceptor type primarily responsible, and briefly explain the cellular mechanism involved.
What is dark (or light) adaptation; the rods (primarily rods for improved dim-light vision); and photoreceptors regenerate unbleached photopigment (rhodopsin) increasing rod sensitivity so they respond to lower light levels.