The Brain
The lobe responsible for higher order thinking and executive functioning, such as making plans and judgements, impulse control, logical and abstract thinking.
What is the frontal lobe?
The two parts of the central nervous system.
What are the brain and the spinal cord?
This neurotransmitter plays a key role in motivation and reward. Decreased activity of this neurotransmitter is associated with ADHD.
What is dopamine?
Compared to humans, cats have a ________ (choose one: lower or higher) absolute threshold for detecting sounds.
What is lower?
All devices must be shut. Each team will submit a wager. Each team can wager up to the amount of points they have. (You can also wager 0 points). I will tell you the category first. Then each team will decide how much to wager.
The category is: Perspectives in Psychology
The ability of the nervous system, particularly the brain, to change in response to experience such as training or trauma.
What is neuroplasticity?
What is the suspension bridge effect? (Will also accept the misattribution/misinterpretation of arousal).
The part of the neuron that receives incoming signals.
What are dendrites?
The process by which new memories are converted from short-term to long-term storage.
What is memory consolidation?
Final Jeopardy Question
Name any 4 of the 7 perspectives in psychology that we discussed. For ONE of those perspectives, give a brief description/definition or an example.
The brain's ability to perform a cognitive task using fewer resources to achieve the same or better performance.
What is neural efficiency?
The three types of neurons that can be found throughout our nervous system.
What are sensory neurons, motor neurons, and interneurons?
Also known as adrenaline, this neurotransmitter plays a key role in the body's fight-or-flight response.
What is epinephrine?
Our sense of the passage of time.
What is chronoception?
This structure in the brain is part of the limbic system. It is linked to emotion and plays an important role in threat perception and fear learning.
What is the amygdala?
This division of the peripheral nervous system controls the voluntary movement of the body's skeletal muscles and carries sensory information to the central nervous system.
What is the somatic nervous system?
The layer of fatty tissue encasing a neuron which enables greater transmission speed of neural impulses
What is myelin?
The stage of sleep where (most) dreaming and emotional processing occur.
What is REM sleep?
The wide band of neural fibers connecting the two hemispheres of the brain and carrying messages between them. Severing this structure results in a split-brain condition.
What is the corpus callosum?
A psychology principle stating that performance improves with mental arousal/stress up to an optimal point. Beyond that point, too much arousal/stress causes performance to drop.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson law/curve?
This inhibitory neurotransmitter plays a key role in calming and relaxing the body by preventing neurons from firing.
What is GABA?
The law that states: for an average person to perceive a difference, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage (not a constant amount).
What is Weber's Law?