Brain Anatomy
What are the 3 main parts of the brain?
cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem
What type of signals do neurons transmit?
electrical signals
In which university was Zimbardo's Prison experiment conducted?
Stanford
What are technological innovations that alter or serve as subsitutes for brain functioning?
neurotechnology
Name 1 career in neuroscience that requires an M.D.
neurosurgeon, neurologist, neuropathologist, psychiatrist
Name at least 1 function of the medulla oblongata.
controls heartbeat and breathing
What part of the cell controls the entire neuron?
nucleus
What experiment demonstrates social conformity (actors vs subject)?
Asch Conformity Study
What are devices that can substitute a motor, sensory or cognitive modality in the nervous system that might have been damaged as a result of an injury or a disease?
neural prostheses/neuroprosthetics
What is the tiny space between the axon terminal of the sending neuron and a dendrite of the receiving neuron?
synaptic gap
Name at least 1 function of the reticular formation.
helps control arousal from sleep, filters incoming sensory stimuli
DAILY DOUBLE
Bet a certain number of points less than or equal to how many points you have. If you get it right, you add that bet to your score. If you get it wrong, you lose all the points you bet.
resting state, depolarization, repolarization, hyperpolarization, return to resting state
The removal of what brain structure caused HM to be unable to form new memories?
hippocampus
What is the field that studies the implications of new technologies in neuroscience and how this new knowledge can be used ethically?
neuroethics
What device is sometimes used as a lie detector because it measures someone's levels of arousal while answering questions?
polygraph
Which structure connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain?
corpus callosum
What is the fatty layer covering the axon of the neuron?
myelin sheath
Which case study showed that speech is localized in a specific part of the brain?
Hint: The man in question had a lesion in his posterior inferior frontal gyrus, causing him to only be able to say 1 word.
Tan
In which type of brain scan are electrodes placed on a patient's scalp?
electroencephalogram (EEG)
What is the other name for adrenaline?
epinephrine
What is the relay station for incoming and outgoing sensory information?
thalamus
What are the 3 parts of an electrical impulse?
reception, conduction, transmission
In which experiment were 2 groups of dogs exposed to shocks, with one group able to stop the shocks and the other group unable to?
Seligman's learned helplessness experiment
What is a method used to treat Parkinson's or epilepsy in which an electrode is inserted into the brain to deliver a regularly pulsed current?
deep brain stimulation
What is the name for a test in which the subject is shown ink blots of ambiguous shapes and asked what they see?
Rorschach Inkblot Test