Neurons
What are the basic building blocks of the nervous system?
What are neurons
What is another term for a neuron firing?
What is action potential
What area of the brain was affected on Phineas Gauge and how did it affect him?
What is the frontal lobe and it affected his personality and thought planning.
What are the three stages of memory?
What is encoding, storage and retrieval.
If you can remember exactly what you did yesterday but have trouble remembering the names of the 50 states, then you have excellent _______ memory but somewhat poor _______ memory.
What is episodic and semantic
Extensions of a neuron that receive messages, from other neurons are?
What are dendrites
What are chemical substances that carry messages from one neuron to the next?
What are neurotransmitters.
What measures brain waves?
What is an EEG.
Yesterday you taught your dog to crawl across the floor while barking. If the dog is to perform this fabulous trick tomorrow, then he will need to _____ the trick, then _____ the trick, then ______ the trick.
What is encode, store, retrieve.
Remembering how to ride a bike is an example of which type of memory?
What is procedural.
What transmits nerve impulses to terminal buttons and vary in length?
What is an Axon.
Narcotics such as heroin and morphine are probably rapidly addictive because they?
What is bind to endorphin receptors.
What is the master regulatory structure and survival motivations?
What is the hypothalamus.
To remember more information ____ can be used to organize information into meaningful units.
What is chunking.
Most forgetting is due to _____ and not ______.
What is decay and interference.
What is the sequence order that reflects how a signal generally travels through a neuron?
What is Dendrite - soma (cell body)- axon - terminal button
What are the four lobes of the brain?
What is the frontal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe and parietal lobe.
What is responsible for planning movement PRIOR to movement occurring?
What is the basal ganglia
Kumar is trying to remember who ran against John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election. Kumars search for information to answer this question is being carried out in his?
What is long term memory
Inattention and shallow encoding can often result in _________, which leads to forgetting.
What is absentmindedness.
What are the four steps of communication between neurons? (neurotransmitters)
-What is released from pre synaptic neuron
-crosses the synapse
-latches onto receptors of the post synaptic neuron
-triggering a response in that neuron
A young child is refereed to Dr. Marco's psychology practice following a severe accident. The child had vision prior to the accident, but because of a blow to the head, she can no longer see. Her eyes are still fully functional. What area of the brain is most likely damaged?
What is the occipital lobe.
What is non-fluent aphasia?
What is damage to the frontal lobe. Can read and understand others but can not form coherent sentences.
Sarah is studying for her English literature exam. For each novel she has read for the course, she tries to think of how the novel relates to her own life. This activity requires that she really think about the themes and characters in the book. Sarah is using the mnemonic strategy of?
What is elaborate rehearsal.
After taking a fall off your horse, you seem to have temporarily lost your memory for past events. The doctor will most likely say that you suffer from?
What is retrograde amnesia.