Heredity, the Environment, and the Nervous System
Neurons
The Brain
Sleep
Sensation
100
A long-standing debate about the degree to which our inherited genetic and biological qualities or our environment/surroundings influence and shape us
What is the nature vs. nature debate?
100
The part of the neuron which passes messages to other cells or neurons
What is the axon/terminal branches of the axon? (Either acceptable)
100
The oldest and central part of the brain which controls automatic survival functions, such as breathing and heartbeat
What is the brainstem?
100
The paradoxical stage of sleep where muscles are relaxed but brain waves are as active as wakefulness
What is REM sleep?
100
The law which states that the difference threshold is a constant minimum percentage
What is Weber's Law?
200
The part of the nervous system made up of the brain and spinal cord
What is the central nervous system?
200
"Natural opioids" which cause a runner's high
What are endorphins?
200
List the 4 lobes of the brain and point to their approx. location on your head. (YOUR ANSWER MUST STILL BE IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION)
What is the frontal lobe? (Blue)
What is the parietal lobe? (Yellow)
What is the occipital lobe? (Red)
What is the temporal lobe? (Yellow)
200
A sleep disorder which is characterized by walking or performing other behaviors while in deep sleep
What is somnambulism?
200
The process in which the eye's lens changes shape to focus on near or far objects
What is accommodation?
300
Artificial Reproduction to produce desired traits
What is eugenics?
300
The principle stating that a neuron either fires or does not fire
What is the all-or-nothing principle?
300
The part of the brain which is vital for turning short-term memories into long-term ones
What is the hippocampus?
300
The type of large, slow waves which occur in NREM 3 sleep
What are delta waves?
300
The theory in which individual neural fibers in an auditory nerve respond to one or another stimulus in rapid succession and out of phase with one another.
What is volley theory?
400
Chance of developing a disease based on genetic variance or family history
What is genetic predisposition?
400
Drugs that prevent axon terminals from reabsorbing neurotransmitters, such as cocaine
What are reuptake inhibitors?
400
How motor control of each hemisphere is mainly responsible for the opposite side of the body
What is Contralateral Hemispheric Organization? (CHO)
400
20,000 cell clusters in the hypothalamus that cause the pineal gland to decrease melatonin in the morning and increase melatonin in the evening.
What is the SCN?
400
The taste which indicates proteins that grow and repair tissue
What is umami?
500
The two parts of the autonomic nervous system. The first one deals with fight-or-flight and the second one deals with relaxing the body after a period of stress (MUST BE IN THE CORRECT ORDER)
What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems?
500
A neurotransmitter related to muscle action, learning, and memory. A lack of this NT can cause myasthenia gravis (MG)
What is ACh (Acetylcholine)?
500
Two language processing areas of the brain. The first area deals with the producing words to speak. The second one mainly deals with comprehending written and spoken language. (MUST BE IN THE CORRECT ORDER)
What are Broca's and Wernicke's Area?
500
Two major theories of dreaming. The first theory states that sleep turns short-term memories into long-term ones through dreams. The second one states that during the night, brain stem activity in REM sleep causes the release of random neural activity, which is made sense of through dreams. (MUST BE IN THE CORRECT ORDER)
What are the consolidation dream and activation-synthesis dream theories?
500
The names of our visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile organs. (MUST BE IN CORRECT ORDER)
What are the eyes, ears, nose, taste buds, and and skin?