Brain Structures
Vocabulary
Hormones/Neurotransmitters
Learning Principles
Studies
100
The term for the individual areas of the brain having specific functions.
What is Localization?
100
Functional MRI scan, brain scanning technique that captures the activation of brain structures while performing an activity.
What is fMRI?
100
A short branched extension of a nerve cell along which impulses received from other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.
What are dendrites?
100
Bailey and Pillard is an example of this learning principle
What is the interaction of physiology and the enviroment?
100
A longitudinal case study studying the role of the hippocampus in memory consolidation.
HM: Milner
200
A part of the brain where long term meories are stored
What is the hippocampus
200
An important neurotransmitter for learning and memory
What is acetylcholine
200
These are gaps between two neurons, which is where communication from one neuron to the other occurs
What are synapses?
200
Martinez & Kesner (1991) is an example of this learning prinicple
What is the priciple that animal research may inform our understanding of human behaviour
200
An experiment studying the role of stress hormones on memory.
Meaney et al (1988)
300
A brain structure that is associated emotion and memory
What is the amygdala?
300
These are blood borne chemicals that aggect behaviour
What are hormones
300
This is a hormone associated with trust, love and bonding.
What is oxytocin?
300
Bailey & Pillard (1990) an example of this learning principle
What is behaviour can be inherited?
300
An experiment studying the role of oxytocin on trust using a trust game.
Baumgartner et al (2008)
400
A brain structure that is responsible for the coordination of our muscles
What is the cerebellum
400
When neurotransmitters are reabsorbed by the terminal buttons and cleared from the synapse.
What is reuptake?
400
In the dark this hormone is secreted, because it helps us to sleep.
What is melatonin?
400
Meaney et al (1988) is an example of these 2 learning principles
What is an example of behaviour is a product of the interaction of physiology and environment
400
A classic study in neuroplasticity and environment on male rats.
Rosenzweig, Bennet & Diamond (1972)
500
A brain structure that connects the left hemisphere to the right hemisphere?
What is the corpus callosum
500
A group of genes that play an important role in the immune system by making molecules that allow the immune system to recognize pathogens. In general, the more diverse that parents MHC genes are, the stronger the immune system of the offspring.
What are MHC genes?
500
This hormone increases the flow of oxygen and blood to the brain by increasing the activity of the heart and dilating blood vessels?
What is adrenaline?
500
The evolutionary theory belongs to this learning principle
What is behaviour is inherited
500
A study in evolutionary psychology that studies the role of MHC on attraction
Wedekind (1995)
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