CH1 & CH2 & CH3 Review
Based on Darwinian thinking, this concept is the idea that our mental states are influenced by internal physiological and physical functions
What is Functionalism?
When your data distribution is skewed, this is the statistical description (mean, median, mode) that is the most representative of your dataset
What is Median?
Included in the Peripheral Nervous System, this first system is in charge of involuntary responses, whereas the other one mediates behavior based on your goals.
What is the Autonomic and Somatic Nervous Systems?
Name all the 4 major cerebral cortices
What is the parietal lobe, frontal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe?
This is the process that is done when you sever the connection between the frontal lobe and the rest of the brain via the eye
What is a frontal lobotomy?
The field of genetics that looks at the relationship between genetic variation and psychological traits
What is Behavioral Genetics?
The movement of individuals and their genetic material between populations
What is Genetic Flow?
2 main anatomical structures are part of the Central Nervous System
What is the brain and spinal cord?
What is the Amygdala's main function?
What is fear response?
HM had this area of his brain removed because of frequent seizures
Which of the following is NOT considered a mechanism of natural evolution?
A) Gene flow
B) Mutation
C) Genetic drift
D) Genetic manipulation
What is Genetic Manipulation?
Based on the opposing functions of the sympathetic and parasympathetic NS, you are able to utilize guided relaxation to calm yourself from a state of --.
What is Anxiety?
When you accidentally touch a hot stove, this branch of your nervous system is responsible for the reflexive reaction of pulling your hand away.
What is the Spinal Cord System?
Name all the main functions of the 4 cerebral cortices
What is ...
1) Occipital Lobe - visual processing
2) Frontal Lobe - decision-making
3) Parietal Lobe - sensory integration
4) Temporal Lobe - auditory processing
What brain system is overly-activated in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder?
What is the Limbic System?
Subfield of Psychology looks at the idea that the "whole" of anything is greater than its "parts" in order to study human perception
What is Gestalt Psychology?
What and where is the Homunculus?
What - Mental representation of the motor or the sensory distribution that reflects the relative space human body parts occupy
Where - Frontal/Parietal Lobe
Which of the following statements are true about the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic NS? Select all that apply..
A) These two systems are part of the Central Nervous System
B) The Sympathetic NS is responsible for the body's "relaxed" state
C) The Parasympathetic NS stimulates repair mechanisms of the body, such as digestion
D) The Sympathetic NS is a essential for evolution and is considered primal
E) The Sympathetic NS is slow-acting system
C, D
Point to where the 4 main cerebral lobes are on your head!
Frontal - forehead area
Occipital - back of the head, base of skull
Temporal - behind ears
Parietal - top, back of the head
Neuropsychologists work with patients that has what characteristic?
What is Brain Damage?
The formula for the Interquartile Range (IQR) of a dataset
What is (Q3-Q1)?
This task is used to test perseveration errors, which is impaired in people that have undergone prefrontal lobotomies
What is the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task?
When the sympathetic NS is activated (e.g. your safety has been threatened, fight-or-flight mode), there is decreased activity in X region and increased activity in Y system in the brain. What is X and Y?
What is the frontal lobe and the limbic sysstem?
Which of the following statements are true? Select all that apply
A) Language processing tends to be left lateralized
B) Damage to Wernicke's Area results in impaired speech production but intact speech comprehension. This is similar to Broca's Area.
C) The primary cortex is in charge of interpreting the information based on our prior knowledge, while the association cortex processes the actual stimuli
D) Proprioception is the sense that helps us perceive taste
E) Stimuli presented in the left visual field being processed by the right occipital lobe is an example of the brain's contralateral organization
A, E
What effects did HM experience after the removal of his hippocampus (temporal lobe)?
What is Anterograde Amnesia?