The neuron
A fatty substance that speeds the signal traveling down the axon
What is myelin sheath?
The Central nervous system is made up of?
What are the brain and spinal cord?
The stem or base of the brain is known as the?
What is the brain stem?
The large band of axons connecting the two hemispheres of the brain.
What is the corpus callosum?
The study of people or animals in their own environment.
What is naturalistic observation?
Sensory neurons carry information toward or away from the CNS?
What is toward?
This system includes limbs and organs.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
The part of the brain that is ridged and bumpy and packed full of neuronal connections.
What is the cerebral cortex?
This structure in the limbic system is essential for the fight or flight response.
What is the amygdala?
A person who takes part in an experiment as a subject.
Who is the participant?
The narrow space between a transmitting neuron's terminal buttons and a receiving neuron's dendrites.
What is the synaptic cleft?
These cells keep neurons in place, create myelin, provide nutrition and insulation.
What are glial cells?
The part of the brain that regulates cardiac and respiratory function.
What is the medulla?
This part of the brain is essential for creating and storing new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
Something in an experiment that the experimenter can manipulate or change.
What is the independent variable?
The cell body of a neuron.
What is the soma?
This system is critical for human emotion, motivation and some forms of emotional and social learning.
What is the limbic system?
The brain stem is responsible for these kinds of functions?
What are survival functions?
This lobe of the brain is involved in visual processing.
What is the occipital lobe?
This group establishes ethical guidelines for psychological research.
What is the APA or American Psychological Association?
Structures at the ends of the axon's branches.
What are terminal buttons?
A process in which neurontransmitters are released back to a pre-synaptic neuron.
What is reuptake?
This part of the brain coordinates muscle movement and maintains equilibrium.
What is the cerebellum?
This lobe of the brain is involved in auditory processing.
What is the temporal lobe?
The post-experiment explanation of any deception used in the experimental research.
What is debriefing?