Biological Bases
Brain Parts
Brain Parts
Biological Bases
Neurons
Neurons
Biological Bases Lobes
Sensation
Other (all units)
100
Controlling voluntary movements of the body
What is the Motor Cortex?
100
Number 48 can be identified as
What is the nucleus?
100
What is the yellow (51) part of the brain?
What is frontal lobe?
100
Information Processing that analyzes raw stimuli through various systems
What is bottom up processing?
100
_____ is Interpreting sensory information based on the larger context, prior knowledge, and expectations.
What is Top-Down Processing?
200
This part of the brain regulates someone's sense of fear
What is amygdala?
200
Number 49 can be identified as
What is Axon?
200
What is the purple (54) part of the brain?
What is cerebellum?
200
Walking into a person's home for the first time, you notice a peculiar smell, when you mention it to the owner, they don't seem to notice, this is known as
What is sensory adaptation?
200
when our eyes move inward toward each other to focus on a close object.
What is the convergence?
300
Brain part that stores long term memories
What is hippocampus?
300
The term for chemicals that travel from one neuron to another, affecting nearby neurons.
What is neurotransmitters?
300
What is the green part of the brain?
What is temporal lobe?
300
The minimum amount of stimulation required for a stimulus to be detected by a sensory system.
What is absolute threshold?
300
short-term memory used for temporarily holding and manipulating information. Short-term and long-term memories combine.
What is working memory?
400
Injury to this part of the brain is likely to cause someone to have great difficulty maintaining their balance and coordinating their movements
What is cerebellum?
400
The central control system of the body
What is the Central Nervous System (CNS)
400
What is the blue (53) part of the brain?
What is occipital lobe?
400
This ________ can open to allow pain signals to be transmitted to the brain or close to block them.
What is Gate Control Theory?
400
the possibility that a third, unmeasured variable may be influencing the relationship between the two variables of interest.
what is third variable problem?
500
The _____ side of the brain is responsible for recognizing faces and the _____ side of the brain is responsible for language
What is the right side and the left side?
500
The "Support Cells" of the nervous system
What are Glial Cells?
500
What is the red (52) part of the brain?
What is parietal lobe?
500
A theory proposing that color vision is based on three types of cone receptors, each sensitive to different wavelengths of light (red, green, and blue). The brain combines signals from these cones to create the perception of a wide range of colors.
what is Trichromatic Theory?
500
During this sleep stage, your brain experiences sleep spindles and you can still be awakened without difficulty
What is NREM stage 2?
600
Temperature, sexual behavior, drinking, and eating are most strongly influenced by the
What is the hypothalamus?
600
Number 46 can be identified as
What is dendrite?
600
Explain how the case study of Phineas Gage impacted what psychologists know about certain regions of the brain
When Gage's frontal lobe was destroyed, psychologists were able to determine it plays a major role in personality and executive functioning
600
The sense of body movement and position, including the awareness of muscle and joint sensations.
What is Kinesthesis
600
people tend to look for, interpret, or remember information in a way that confirms what they already believe.
What is your conformation bias?