Nervous System
The Brain
Endocrine System
Ways Psychologists Study the Brain
Important Terms and Concepts
100
What are the two parts of the Nervous System and their functions?
What are the CNS (Central Nervous System) and the PNS (Peripheral Nervous System). They both act as a communication link between the body and the brain.
100
What are the "3 Brains"
What are the forebrain, hindbrain, and midbrain
100
What is the endocrine system?
What is alternate mode of communication in the body that uses chemicals throughout your body to control the body.
100
What are lobotomies?
What is Removal of sections of the brain
100
What are hormones
What is chemical substances produced by the endocrine system that carry messages through the body in the blood.
200
Explain the difference between the somatic and autonomic systems and give an example of both.
What is Somatic are voluntary muscle movement and autonomic are involuntary muscle movement. Answer will vary.
200
which of the "3 Brains" controls lifes most basic processes? What parts make up this Brain?
What is the hindbrain. What is the medulla, pons, cerebellum, spinal cord
200
What is the importance of the pituitary gland?
What is it is the center of command for the endocrine system. It controls other glands throughout the system it is the "master gland"
200
Explain how the EEG works
What is Nodes are attached to the head which are used to monitor millions of neurons at a time to record neuron activity.
200
What is the job of the Broca's Area?
What is movement of mouth and our ability to speak grammatically and fluently
300
What are the three different types of neurons and what are their jobs?
what are afferent-sensory (connect organs to spinal cord), efferent-motor (Connects spinal cord to organs) and interneuron-connect all types of neurons
300
Explain the importance of the "limbic system". Name the two most important parts of this system and their jobs.
limbic system is important to controlling emotion, motivation, and learning. The amygdala and hippcompus.
300
What is the job of the Adrenal Glands?
What is Sudden arousal reaction , such as increased heartrate, blood pressure, especially in stressful situations
300
Explain how the PET scan works
What is Radiation is injected and then absorbed into the neurons in the brain, which show where most brain activity is taking place during different processes.
300
what is the job of the Wernicke's Area?
What is part of the brain that is involved in language comprehension.
400
How can damages to the NS or inconsistencies with neurotransmitters in the Nervous system alter behavior?
What is damage to nervous system can cause paralysis, as well as a number of neurological diseases. Also depression, schizophrenia, etc. can be caused from chemical imbalances.
400
What are the 4 lobes of the brain and what are their functions?
What is frontal-thinking and understanding, parietal-processing sensory informtion. temporal-auditory processing and emotions and occipital-visual processing
400
What is the difference between neurotransmitters and hormones?
Neurotransmitters are absorbed throughout the nervous system through neurons and are communicated much more quickly throughout the body, but their effects do not last very long. Whereas hormones are chemicals that are released and travel throughout the blood and communication take more time, but their effects last much longer.
400
Explain how an MRI Works
What is magnetic and radio frequency waves show the activity and structure of the human brain.
400
What is the job of the hypothalamus?
What is controls body temperature, sexual desires, hunger and thirst.
500
Go up to the board and draw and label a neuron and tell the jobs of each part of the neuron.
Check the Board
500
How can damage and trauma to the brain alter an individual's behavior? give at least 3 examples
Answers will vary
500
How can damage to and inconsistencies in the endocrine system alter behaviors? Give 2 examples
Answers will vary
500
Bonus: You get an extra 200 points if you get this correct An insufficient amount of _________________ in the bloodstream causes laziness and lethargy.
What is thyroxin (hormone produced by the thyroid gland)
500
In a grand mal seizure. a. impulses are not transmitted to the corpus callosum b. the reticular formation is destroyed c. the endocrine system overwhelms the cerebellum d. uncontrolled electrical activity in one hemisphere of the brain spreads across both hemispheres
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