Biopsychology
The Brain, Spinal Cord, and Imaging
A New Sensation
Perceive or Not to Perceive?
Boo!
100
The area where neurotransmitters are released and attached to receptors.
What is the Synaptic Cleft?
100
This process involves moving a neurotransmitter from the "space" back into the axon terminal from which it was released.
What is Reuptake?
100
The six 6 groupings of taste.
What are:
1.Sweet
2.Salty
3.Sour
4.Bitter
5.Umami
6. Taste for the fatty content
100
These "communications" are presented below the threshold of conscious awareness.
What are Subliminal Messages?
100
The fictional town where the "bogeyman," Michael Myers is from.
Where is Haddonfield?
200
A series of glands that produce hormones to regulate normal body functions.
What is the Endocrine System?
200
CT (CAT) and PET scans involve the use of this technique.
What is Radiation?
200
This is an example of this type of Gestalt principle:
What is a Figure-Ground Relationship?
200
The lower the amplitudes, the __________ the sounds
What are Quieter [sounds]?
200
In the 1982 movie, E.T., the alien E.T. has a popular scene eating this candy.
What are Reese's Pieces?
300
These serve as interconnected information processors that are essential for all of the tasks of the nervous system.
What are Neurons?
300
These nerves send messages out to the muscles and organs.
What are Motor Nerves?
300
This sense relies on the ability to maintain body posture.
What is the Vestibular Sense?
300
When you are trying to sleep at night and hear a car alarm consistently go off. You are aware of the alarm but over time you no longer perceive the sound of it, even though it is still going off.
What is Sensory Adaptation?
300
Jason Voorhees, slasher in the Friday the 13th series, used a variety of masks throughout the movies. Which movie did Jason debut his popular hockey mask?
What is Friday the 13th Part III?
400
A drug which mimics or strengthens the effects of a neurotransmitter can be considered.
What is an Agonist Drug?
400
The medulla, pons, and cerebellum combined are known as this?
What is the Brain Stem?
400
Your ears receive sound waves and convert this energy into neural messages that travel to your brain and are processed as sounds.
What is [Auditory] Transduction?
400
I was in the middle of watching a movie at the theater when all of a sudden someone pulled out their phone and it distracted me!
What is Just-Noticeable Difference?
400
What is the name of the spacecraft the crew is aboard in Alien?
What is The Nostromo?
500
This part of the autonomic nervous system is involved in stress-related activities and functions.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
500
This concept explains how the nervous system can change and adapt through a variety of ways including personal experiences, developmental processes, or in response to some sort of damage or injury that has occurred.
What is Neuroplasticity?
500
The two long, red lines are equal in length; however, their perspectives make us perceive one as longer than the other.
What is the Muller-Lyer Illusion?
500
The smallest amount of detectable stimulus energy is needed for your sensory system to notice it.
What is the Absolute Threshold?
500
In The Exorcist (1973), what nickname does Regan give the demon she brings into the house through the Ouija board?
Who is Captain Howdy?
