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What are the two main differentiating terms associated with Nature and Nurture?
What are genetics and environment?
What system involves only the brain and spinal cord?
What is the central nervous system?
What is multiple sclerosis?
When the myelin sheath is damaged, resulting is the disruption of electrical signals
Jordin talks, kicks, and punches while she sleeps acting out the contents of her dream. What sleep disorder does she suffer from?
Define transduction
What is the conversion of one form of energy to another.
What is epigenetics the study of?
What is the study of how the environment affects our genes and how they work.
What system connects the Central Nervous System to the rest of the body?
What is the peripheral nervous system?
Agonist vs. antagonist drug
agonist: increase the effectiveness of neurotransmitters (Xanax)
antagonist: decrease the effectiveness of neurotransmitters (meds for schizo, or alc)
Define consciousness
What is awareness of environment and self.
Emory is met with new information and uses her previous knowledge to better understand the new information. Is this an example of top-down processing or bottom-down processing?
What is top down processing
what are identical twins that develop from the same egg, monozygotic or dizygotic?
What are monozygotic?
What system prepares for the fight or flight response?
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
which brain structure is responsible for maintaining wital autonomic functions like heart rate and breathing?
Medulla oblongata
What does NREM sleep stand for?
What is Non rapid eye movement sleep
Do wavelengths determine hue, amplitude, or both?
What is both
What are fraternal twins who develop from seperate eggs and share a prenatal environment?
What are dizygotic twins?
What system calms the body and brings it back down to a normal resting state after a fight or flight respnse?
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
what is wernicke's aphasia?
damage to Wernicke's area that causes an individual to lose their ability to produce meaningful speech and may have difficulty producing spoken language
Isabella suffers from uncontrollable random attacks of overwhelming sleepiness during the day, these attacks are more common when experiencing low emotions. Is this statement true or false?
What is false
What part of the ear does transduction for sound waves into neutral impulses occur?
What is the cochlea
what is the principle that the inherited traits enabling an
organism to best survive and reproduce in a particular environment
will (in competition with other trait variations) most likely be passed
on to succeeding generations?
What is Natural Selection?
What is the purpose of the nervous system?
What is to serve as a electrochemical communication network?
what is the correct order for the reflex arc pathway?
Sensory neuron -> interneuron -> motor neuron
carries impulse, process signal, carries impulse to trigger response
What are five major sleep disorders?
What is narcolepsy, somnambulism(sleepwalking), Insomnia, REM sleep behavior disorder, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, circadian rhythm disorder.
(Any order will be taken)
Luminosa is running in the hallways and eats it, she immediately feels pain. What kind of sensory receptors specialized to pain receive and send these signals to the brain?
What is nociceptors?