The type of research when a scientist seeks knowledge for knowledge sake.
What is basic research?
100
A type of research when a researcher observes or measures (without manipulating) two or more variables to find relationships between them, without inferring a causal relationship.
What is correlational research?
100
The branches of the neuron that receive neural impulses from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
100
The part of the nervous system that relays neural information from the body to the brain, and from the brain to the body.
What is the spinal cord?
100
Stimulating this part of the brain causes an increase in aggressive behavior.
What is the amygdala?
200
This is the first step on the scientific method.
What is performing a literature review?
200
A type of research that allows researchers to obtain data about natural behavior.
What is naturalistic observation?
200
When a neuron is at this potential, the fluid inside the axon has more negatively charged ions than the fluid outside the axon.
What is resting potential?
200
The part of the nervous system that allows a student to raise his or her hand when the student wants to answer a question asked by an instructor.
What is the somatic nervous system?
200
The primary function of this part of the brain is to control automatic bodily functions such as respiration and heart rate.
What is the medulla?
300
When a scientist performs a study that was already performed by another scientist and uses the same procedures to see if he or she gets the same results.
What is replicating a study?
300
The type of research used to study someone with a rare disorder such as a photophobia (the fear of light).
What is a case study?
300
The type of cell that in the future may be used to treat injury, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, epilepsy, and strokes.
What is a stem cell?
300
The part of the nervous system that would cause someone to have a stomach ache after dinner when an argument occurred during dinner.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
300
A lobe that governs motor control, speech production, thinking, personality, emotion, and memory.
What is the frontal lobe?
400
When data from studies has been compiled, and researchers have developed a set of concepts to explain the interrelated data.
What is a theory?
400
The variable in an experiment that is manipulated.
What is an independent variable?
400
The gap between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite of the receiving neuron.
What is the synapse?
400
The type of neuron that carries messages to the central nervous system.
What is a sensory neuron?
400
The structure at the top of the brain stem involved in respiration, movement, waking, sleep, and dreaming.
What are the pons
500
When the sample of participants in a research study is not representative of the larger population.
What is sample bias?
500
A type of study in which neither the patient nor the physician knows whether a patient is getting the drug or the placebo.
What is a double-blind study?
500
The communication within a neuron is this type, whereas the communication between neurons is chemical.
What is electrical?
500
The type of neuron that carries messages away from the central nervous system.
What is a motor neuron?
500
A diffuse set of neurons in the core of the brain stem that screens incoming sensory information and arouses the cortex.