Heredity/Environment (1.1)
Neuron/Neural Firing (1.3)
Body Parts (1.2/1.4)
Sleep (1.5)
Sensation (1.6)
100
The classic dilemma between someone's biology and someone's life experiences (Extra 50 points to name the actual psych terms for these)
What is Nature versus Nurture? (or heredity and environment for +50 points)
100
Four words that can describe neurotransmitters
What are agonists, antagonists, inhibitory, and excitatory?
100
The different nervous systems
What are the central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, including the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system which includes the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system?
100
The two different theories of why we dream
What are the consolidation theory (Dreams consolidate daily experiences into memories) and activation-synthesis theory (brain making sense of random neural firings)?
100
Weber's Law
What is that the just noticeable difference is not a fixed amount, but is proportional to a signal's intensity?
200
The study of how one's biology and environment interact
What is Behavioral Genetics?
200
What are (from top to bottom) the nucleus, the cell body, dendrites, a glial cell, the axon, and the axon terminal?
200
The difference between the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems
What is the sympathetic nervous systems is the "emergency response" system, responding to anxiety and causing the fight/flight/freeze response while the parasympathetic system returns one to homeostasis?
200
The effects of sleep deprivation
What are memory impairment, moodiness, disordered eating, and if having chronic sleep deprivation, chronic irritability, minimal motivation, anxiety, and decreased cognitive and immune functions?
200
The difference between cones and rods
What are that cones transmit detail and color while rods transmit shape and movement?
300
Two different types of studies that help determine what aspects of one's behavior are environmental or biological
What are Twin studies and Adoption studies?
300
The stages of a neuron firing
What are starting at resting potential, receiving a signal (acting potential), getting past the threshold, depolarizing to send the signal to the next neuron, and going through a refractory period to repolarize?
300
The location of Broca's and Wernicke's area
What is the frontal lobe and the temporal lobe respectively?
300
The stages of the sleep that the brain proceeds through throughout one sleep cycle
What is stage 1, stage 2, stage 3, stage 2, REM?
300
The different parts of the eye
What are the cornea (outermost part of eye), the iris (the colored part), the lens (focuses light), the retina (detects light), the fovea (where most cones are) and the optic nerve (sends signals to brain from retina)?
400
The difference between sensitive and critical periods
What is sensitive periods are when it is best to progress developmentally but can be accomplished later and critical periods are periods of time where you must progress developmentally and cannot do so outside of that period?
400
All of the neurotransmitters we need to know and one or two keywords to remember their function
Glutamate - Excitatory
GABA - Inhibitory
Norepinephrine - Anxiety
ACh - Muscle movement
Endorphins - Reduce pain
Serotonin - Mood balancer
Dopamine - Pleasure
400
The four lobes of the cerebral cortex and their functions
What are the
Occipital lobes - Visual processing
Temporal lobes - Auditory processing
Parietal lobes - Sensory processing
Frontal lobes - Executive functioning
?
400
The reason that REM sleep is called the paradoxical stage
What is that there is high brain activity but the body is paralyzed?
400
Four different types of visual disorders
What are monochromatism (one working cone), dichromatism (two working cones), prosopagnosia (face blindness), and blindsight (you aren't able to see things, but your brain still responds to stimuli)?
500
The difference between a genotype, genome, and adaptive trait
What is
- Genotypes are genes being expressed as traits
- A genome is one's full hereditary information
- An adaptive trait is a specific trait beneficial for survival that gets past down
?
500
The operations of the endocrine system (including 5 hormones we need to know)
The hypothalamus sends a signal to the pituitary gland to release either adrenaline (fight/flight), leptin (hunger suppressant), ghrelin (hunger stimulant), melatonin (sleep stimulant), and oxytocin (love)
500
The different parts of the brainstem and their functions
What is
- Medulla oblongata - maintains heart rate & bodily functions
- Reticular formation - carries messages throughout the brain
- Reward center - responds to dopamine
- Limbic system - Includes the thalamus, hippocampus, amygdala, and hypothalamus to regulate emotions
500
The 5 different sleep disorders we need to know and what they do to someone
What are
- Insomnia - the inability to fall asleep or stay asleep
- Narcolepsy - Suddenly falling into REM sleep during waking hours
- Sleep apnea - Breathing stopping and starting suddenly during sleep
- Somnambulism - Sleepwalking
- REM sleep behavior disorder - Not being paralyzed during REM sleep
?
500
Three different theories of why we hear different pitches outside of detection range
What are
- Place theory - Here different pitches because different places are triggered along cochlea
- Frequency theory - Different frequencies trigger a signal at the same frequency as the sound
- Volley theory - Neural cells alternate as they fire to pick up higher frequencies