The Brain
The Nervous System
Important Psychologists
Neurons
Looking Ahead
100

What are the three major sections of the brain?

What are forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain?

100

What are the two main parts of the central nervous system?

What are the brain and spinal cord?

100

Who is the “Father of Psychology”?

Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

100

What part receives messages from other neurons?

What are dendrites?

100

What is marked by low levels of physical activity and reduced sensory awareness?

What is sleep?

200

Which lobe is involved with hearing, memory, motion, and some language?

What is the temporal lobe?

200

Which nervous system controls all the involuntary muscles, organs, and glands?

What is the autonomic nervous system?

200

Who discovered the concept of classical conditioning?

Who is Ivan Pavlov?

200

What is the fatty substance that coats the axons to insulate, protect, and speed up the neural impulse?

What is a myelin sheath?

200

What is the hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle?

What is melatonin?

300

Which area of the brain is involved in our experience of emotion and fear?

What is the Amygdala?

300

Which nervous system reacts to stressful events and bodily arousal?

What is the sympathetic nervous system?

300

Psychoanalysis is therapy based on who’s ideas?

Who is Sigmund Freud?

300

What blocks or reduces the effects of a neurotransmitter?

What is an antagonist?

300

What is the state with high levels of sensory awareness, thought, and behavior?

What is wakefulness?

400

Which lobe is involved in processing various sensory and peripheral info?

What is the parietal lobe?

400

Which nervous system relays sensory and motor information to and from the CNS?

What is the somatic nervous system?

400

Who is known for the Little Albert Study?

Who is John Watson?

400
What is the process by which neurotransmitters are taken back into the synaptic vesicles?

What is reuptake?

400

What is it called when a person has problems falling asleep, staying asleep, and quality of sleep?

What is insomnia?

500

What is the structure called that connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain?

What is the corpus callosum?

500

What are the two divisions of the autonomic nervous system?

What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic divisions?

500

Who developed client-centered therapy?

Who is Carl Rogers?

500

The level of charge in the membrane that carries the neuron to become active?

What is the threshold?

500

What is the biological rhythm that occurs over approximately 24 hours?

What is circadian rhythm?

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