Biological Bases
Brain Parts
Brain Parts
Biological Bases
Neurons
Neurons
Biological Bases Lobes
States of Consciousness - Sleep
Sensation
100
The primary connection between the left and the right hemispheres
What is the corpus callosum?
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
The recommended amount of hours of sleep adolescents need.
What is 6-8 hours?
100
Information Processing that analyzes raw stimuli through various systems
What is bottom up 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
The 24 hour clock in our bodies that regulates our sleep/wake cycle
What is the circadian rhythm?
200
The ability to recall information near the end of a list
What is the Recency effect?
300
Brain part that stores long term memories
What is hippocampus?
300
Number 50 can be identified as 
What is the Myelin sheath?
300
What is the green part of the brain?
What is temporal lobe?
300
Patient feels excessively sleepy during the day. She sometimes cannot tell if she is dreaming or hallucinating. When she wakes up in the morning she feels glued to her bed as if she cannot move. She mentions that she feels weak when she laughs or is being tickled.
What is narcolepsy?
300
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?
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 term for chemicals that travel from one neuron to another, affecting nearby neurons.
What is neurotransmitters?
400
What is the blue (53) part of the brain?
What is occipital lobe?
400
The literal content of your dream
What is manifest content?
400
According to trichromatic theory, these three colors combine to create millions of combinations of color that we experience every day
What are red, green, and blue?
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
Number 46 can be identified as
What is dendrite?
500
What is the red (52) part of the brain?
What is parietal lobe?
500
During this sleep stage, your brain experiences sleep spindles and you can still be awakened without difficulty
What is NREM stage 2?
500
Annette begins staring at the red, white, and blue colors on the flag hanging at the front of her classroom. When she shifts her gaze to the wall she perceives green, black, and yellow afterimages of this flag. This is due to which theory?
What is opponent process theory?
600
Temperature, sexual behavior, drinking, and eating are most strongly influenced by the
What is the hypothalamus?
600
Number 47 can be identified as
What is the terminal button?
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 hidden meaning of your dream.
What is your latent content?
600
These types of skin receptors have their own fiber that travels up the spine, to the brain in order to trigger a reaction sooner than any other receptor.
What are pain receptors?