The Scientific Method
A self-correcting process for asking questions and observing nature’s answers.
What is the scientific method?
Where is the cerebellum located?
What is the brainstem?
Which part of the neuron sends an action potential to other neurons?
What is the axon?
What is the role of melatonin in sleep?
What is signaling darkness and promoting sleepiness?
Which of the following statements best describes our current understanding of why people dream?
What is we have ideas but no definitive answers?
Reasoning that does not blindly accept available arguments and conclusions.
What is critical thinking?
What allows action potentials to travel up to 15 times faster?
What is the myelin sheath?
$300: Which neurotransmitter pla
Dopamine in the reward system primarily motivates behavior by doing this.
What is helping us anticipate and pursue rewarding activities?
Why is chronic sleep deprivation often underestimated by individuals?
What is because the body adapts to reduced sleep, masking impairment?
Stage 3 (deep sleep) is particularly important for this.
What is memory consolidation and bodily recovery?
Which of the following was a major limitation of structuralism?
What is relying on introspection, which was highly subjective?
What is oxytocin?
Which brain structure relays sensory input (except smell) to higher brain regions?
Which division of the nervous system activates the “fight-or-flight” response?
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
At 3 a.m., you’re fighting sleep. What causes this?
What are Process S (adenosine) and Process C (circadian rhythms)?
Freud’s idea that dreams are symbols to be interpreted belongs to this school of thought.
What is the psychodynamic approach?
A researcher making a prediction without data to back it up is called this.
What is a hypothesis?
Which brain structure relays sensory input (except smell) to higher brain regions?
What is the thalamus?
After neurotransmitters are released into the synapse, what may happen?
What is they dissipate or are reabsorbed through reuptake?
Which definition best captures Walker’s (2017) description of sleep?
What is a periodic, natural loss of consciousness with metabolically active, ordered stages?
REM sleep is especially important for this kind of memory.
What is emotional memory? (sometimes also creative/associative memory)
The biopsychosocial model suggests depression may be linked to this combination.
What are neurotransmitter imbalances, negative thinking, and lack of social support?
If a split-brain patient sees an object in their right visual field, what can’t they do?
What is pick the object using their left hand?
Which lobe of the cerebral cortex is located at the back of the brain?
What is the occipital lobe?
We dream about strange, nonsensical situations because of low activity in this part of the brain.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
Sleep spindles, which help with learning, occur during this sleep stage.
What is Stage 2 sleep?