There are alternating periods of wakefulness and sleep which are internally generated, but connected to earth's rotation.
What are circadian rhythms?
100
This is the ability to recall the first and last items in a series...
What is serial-position effect?
100
The primary visual cortex is located in this lobe of the brain.
What is the occipital lobe?
100
These neurons function as photoreceptors in the retina, allowing us to see in black and white and in color.
What are rods and cones?
100
In Freud's proposed psychic structure, this represents the physiological drives and is fully unconscious.
What is the id?
200
Although often not met, the National Sleep foundation recommends that adults in the US should get this daily.
What is 8 hours of sleep?
200
Infantile amnesia, until the age of 2 or 3 years, is a result of immaturity of this structure in the limbic system.
What is the hippocampus?
200
Another name for the sensory neurons which transmit sensory information to the brain and spinal cord.
What are afferent neurons?
200
This is a disruption of the ability to understand or produce language.
What is aphasia?
200
The autonomic nervous system stimulates production of both of these chemicals to prepare the body for fight-or-flight.
What are adrenaline & noradrenaline OR epinephrine & norepinephrine?
300
Typically this occurs during the fifth stage of sleep; when 80% of sleep subjects report dreaming.
What is REM sleep?
300
This is diagnosed when a person cannot remember events that occurred after a physical trauma.
What is anterograde amnesia?
300
If we stimulated this area of your brain, you may become very aggressive, angry or fearful.
What is the amygdala?
300
High levels of this neurotransmitter have been associated with schizophrenia and Parkinson's disease.
What is dopamine?
300
These are faulty perceptions in the absence of sensory stimulation...
What are hallucinations?
400
These brain waves consist of brief bursts of brain activity during stage 2 sleep.
What are sleep spindles?
400
This is the shaping of bogus or slanted memories by being provided inaccurate information.
What is the misinformation effect?
400
This part of the hind brain is vital to the functioning of attention, sleep and arousal; damage to this area may result in a coma.
What is the reticular formation?
400
A neuron which is ready for firing, has created an internal negative change in relation to the body fluid outside the cell membrane is ____.
What is polarized?
400
Depression and learned helplessness are often connected with lower levels of this neurotransmitter.
What is serotonin?
500
In this model, acetylcholine and the pons stimulate the reticular formation and the memory cortex which then weave together these sources and yield dreams.
What is the activation-synthesis model?
500
This model proposes that there are three stages of memory: sensory, short-term, and long-term memory.
What is the Atkinson-Shiffrin Model?
500
A patient who has just been in a car accident and cannot identify letters which the doctor traces on his hand while his eyes are closed has probably damaged this part of the brain.
What is the somatosensory cortex?
500
This gaseous neurotransmitter mediates hemodynamic erections in men.
What is nitric oxide?
500
Research suggests low levels of this neurotransmitter are involved with intraversion, social conflict and lack of guilt; all factors characterized with antisocial personality.