Nature vs. Nurture
What is the idea that traits that enables survival and reproduction will be passed on to succeeding generations?
Natural selection
What is a simple, automatic response to a sensory stimulus delivered through the spinal cord?
Reflex
What is the name of a large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carry message between them?
Corpus callosum
What is the biological clock that allows the body to synchronize with the 24h cycle of day and night
Circadian rhythm
What is the name of the stimuli that is below the threshold of conscious awareness?
Subliminal
What is the field of study that studies evolution of behavior and mind using the principle of natural selection?
Evolutionary psychology
What is a molecule that increases neurotransmitter’s action within the synaptic gap?
Agonist
If you injured this part of the brain, you won't be able to form new long term memories
Hippocampus
What is the study of brain activity linked with cognition?
Cognitive neuroscience
What is the activation, often unconsciously, of a certain association, thus predisposing one’s perception, memory, or response?
Priming
What is the study of relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior?
Behavior genetics
What is the bundles of millions of axons in a single cable that carries messages from the eye?
Optic nerve
What is a brain region that processes sensory input, coordinates movement output, balance, and manages nonverbal learning and memory?
Cerebellum
During night, SCN increases the production of _____
Melatonin
What is the type of processing method that allows you to read "yuo cna raed tihs"?
Top down processing
This study is done in order to scientifically tease apart the influence of environment and heredity
Twin and adoption study
What are the alternative names for sensory and motor neurons?
Afferent neurons: it carries messages FROM the body TO the brain
Efferent neurons: it carries messages FROM the brain TO the body
This part of the brain allows facial recognition
Right temporal lobe
Sleep pressure is a term that describes our necessity to sleep in order to clear THIS type of neurotransmitter
Adenosine
What are the 3 stages of transduction?
Receive, transform, and deliver
What is the study of how environment affects genetic expression without a DNA change
Epigenetics
What is the cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect the neuron? They may also play a role in learning, thinking, and memory
Glial cell
What is a nerve network that travels through the brainstem into the thalamus? it filters information and controls arousal
Reticular formation
What is the theory that states dream is a result of brain’s attempt to synthesize random neural activity?
Activation synthesis theory
What is the name of a receptor that is located in the retina and is responsible for peripheral and twilight vision?
Rods