Brain 1
This part of the brain that controls sleep
What is pons?
This part of the brain is mainly responsible for aggression and fear
What is the amygdala
The biochemical unit of heredity that make up the chromosomes: segments of DNA capable of synthesizing a protein
What is a gene
The principle that information is often simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks.
What is dual processing
Sleep disorder characterized by repeated stoppage of breathing while sleeping
What is sleep apnea?
Part of the brain linked to emotion and reward
What is the hypothalamus?
This part of the brain includes the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, amygdala, and hippocampus
What is the limbic system
studies the influence on gene expression that occur without changes in DNA
what is epigenetics?
Part of the brain that is severed in split brain patients
What is the corpus callosum?
Our biological clock - helps explain jet lag
What is circadian rhythm?
Part of the brain affected when a gymnast falls and hits her head and later has trouble maintaining balance
What is the cerebellum?
Which part of the brain is involved in making plans and judgment?
What is the frontal lobe?
What type of psychologist would be most likely to predict that environmental influences are more deterministic than genetic influences?
Who are evolutionary psychologists
The concentration of glucose in active regions of the brain underlies the usefulness of ____ scans.
What are PET scans
Stage of sleep in which we experience sleep paralysis
What is REM sleep?
Name 3 parts of the brain stem and their functions
Pons, Medulla, Reticular Formation
Define brain plasticity AND neurogenesis
Brain plasticity: brain's ability to change and adapt
Neurogenesis: the formation of new neurons
Who are the Jim twins and what did they help psychologists understand?
Twins - personality similar regardless of different upbringings
an amplified recording of the waves of electrical activity that sweep across the brain's surface - uses a shower-cap-like hat filled with electrodes
What is an EEG?
Cocaine and nicotine are this type of psychoactive drug
What is a stimulant?
Give an example of what would happen if each of the following were stimulated:
motor cortex
sensory cortex
- involuntary movement
- sensation of touch
A picture of a cat is flashed in the left visual field and a picture of a mouse is flashed in the right visual field of a split brain patient. The individual will be able to use her right hand to indicate she saw a ______
What is a mouse
The result of the evolutionary process that preserves traits that enhance the adaptation of an organism and suppresses traits that do not is called
What is natural selection?
Explain the difference between an MRI and an fMRI
MRI - anatomy
fMRI - function
Name 3 reasons why we sleep
sleep protects
sleep helps us recuperate
sleep helps restore and rebuild memories
sleep feeds creative thinking
sleep supports growth