Brain Biology
This lobe is responsible for the general senses such as temperature, touch, etc.
What is the Parietal Lobe.
This term refers to the sense of smell, which involves receptors in the nasal cavity sending information directly to the brain’s olfactory bulb.
What is olfaction?
This part of the motor neuron is responsible for receiving messages from other cells.
What are dendrites.
Anything that causes a change in the results or interferes with the IV of the experiment are called...
What are confounding variables?
External influences such as family, culture, and education.
What is environment/nurture?
This brain connector is responsible for the left and right brain communicating with each other.
What is the corpus callosum.
Influence the perception of pain or pleasure. Opiates can suppress it.
What are endorphins?
The process when excess neurotransmitters are reabsorbed by their sending neuron?
What is an Reuptake?
What is the mean, median and mode of the following list of numbers: 1,1,3,3,3,3,4,6
mean:3 median:3 mode: 3
This explains the genetic transfer of characteristics from parents to their offspring.
What is heredity.
This former railroad worker was impaled when a reaction cause a metal bar to go through his cheek, behind his eye, through the frontal lobe, and out the top of his head
Who is Phineas Gage.
The process involves converting stimulus energies, such as light or sound waves, into neural impulses that the brain can interpret.
What is transduction?
This acts as protection for the axon. And as a bonus, this thing also helps speed up the process.
What is the myelin sheath.
This is any effect on behavior caused by expectations alone.
What is placebo effect?
Approach or perspective in psychology that considers the role of adaptability and natural selection
What is evolutionary?
This area is associated with language expression and speech.
What is Broca's Area?
This concept is defined as the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time.
What is the absolute threshold?
This chemical helps us learn and recall/memory. Come on now, this chemical REALLY needs to kick in right about now for this table!
What is glutamate.
This is the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.
What is hindsight bias?
Also known as paradoxical sleep because the muscles are relaxed but other body systems are active. Better known as the primary sleep stage.
What is REM sleep?
Your brain will process things based on how routine or how new and difficult it is. 2+2 is a type of this processing, while quantum physics is this type of processing.
What are parallel and sequential processing.
According to this theory, the spinal cord contains a neurological mechanism that can block or allow pain signals to pass to the brain, explaining why psychological factors can influence pain perception.
What is the gate-control theory of pain?
This part of the nervous system is most immediately activated by sudden fear (heart rate, blood pressure, flight or fight, etc.)
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
A statistic that describes the direction and strength of the relationship between two sets of data
What is the correlation coefficient?
The brain's ability to change by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience.
What is plasticity?