This is the outer area of the brain. It is broken down into 4 lobes, 2 hemispheres and is where problem solving, memory and other "human" type behaviors are controlled.
What is the cerebral cortex?
100
These are the chemical messengers in your brain.
What are neurotransmitters?
100
This guy had a pole go through his frontal cortex and then he became a big jerk.
Who is Phineas Gage?
100
MZT stands for this
What are Monozygotic Twins raised together?
100
Has an independent variable, dependent variable and controlled conditions. This is also the only way to prove cause and effect.
What is an experiment?
200
When damaged, loss of this brain part prevents subjects from creating any new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
200
This is what we call the system of glands responsible for hormone production.
What is the Endocrine System?
200
This man had surgery to reduce his seizures and ended up unable to make new memories after they removed his hippocampus.
Who is H.M?
200
This man was responsible for the famous Minnesota Twin Study.
Who is Dr. Bouchard?
200
Often used when researching rare and/or unusual biological conditions.
What is a case study?
300
This technology allows doctors to see which areas of a subjects brain are active by injecting a radioactive glucose into the bloodstream.
What is a PET scan.
300
This chemical messenger is necessary for the creation of new memories to take place and for learning to occur.
What is acetylcholine (Ach)?
300
This doctor thought gender identification did not happen until after two years of age and was due to the environment, not genetics.
Who is Dr, Money?
300
Bailey and Pillard studied MZ twins and DZ twins looking for concordance rates for this self-reported behavior.
What is homosexuality?
300
Brain imaging techniques give us great insight into how the brain is working in a living person, but it cannot prove cause and effect, it can only suggest this.
What is a correlation?
400
The concept that, although localization of function occurs, the specific location of a function is not necessarily fixed for all individuals, and the area of brain dedicated to certain function s can be redistributed according to environmental demands.
What is neuroplasticity?
400
Also known as the "cuddle hormone", when this hormone is released increased levels of trust are also present as shown in Morhenn's trust game experiment.
What is oxytocin?
400
These MZA's were unique in that they had a freaky number of things in common, even though they grew up apart.
Who are the Jim Twins?
400
This mutated gene was found to indicate a higher tendency towards developing depression.
What is the 5-HTT gene?
400
Twin studies are very beneficial to researchers because MZ's have 100% of the same genetics, allowing one twin to serve as this
What is the controlled condition?
500
The specific part of your brain that is responsible for the ability to produce understandable speech.
What is Broca's area?
500
The flight-or-fight response prepares the body for action by releasing adrenaline into the bloodstream and signaling this nervous response system:
What is the sympathetic response?
500
This study was completed by Brefczynski-Lewis and examined differences in brain activity that might have resulted from having engaged in meditation over a long period of time. The researchers studied monks from this specific religious group-
Who are Tibetan Buddhists?
500
This is one potential ethical issue with genetic testing of both twins and rare disorders.
What is confidentiality/ anonymity?
500
Name three ethical principles of psychological research:
1. confidentiality
2. informed consent
3. debriefing
4. right to withdrawl
5. no harm
6. avoid deception