Sociology
The process by which a small number of people/corporations control what info is presented to the media.
Gatekeeping.
______ : A nerve and all of the muscle fibers it stimulates
What is a Motor Unit
The secretion of this hormone is stimulated by low blood sugar levels, promoting the breakdown of glycogen into glucose.
Glucagon.
If you read a C as an O this would be an example of this Gestalt Principle.
Closure.
Name the three parts of the brain stem.
Pons, Midbrain, Medulla oblongata.
All of the beliefs, assumptions, objects, behaviors, and processes that make up a shared way of life. Has a pervasive effect on worldview.
Culture
What is the name and function of cranial nerve VIII?
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve, with function in hearing (cochlear) and balance (vestibular).
There are several ways cells can influence themselves/their surrounding cells by secretion of molecules. ___crine signaling is when the cell targets it's own receptors, ____crine signaling targets neighboring cells, and _____crine signaling targets distant cells via the bloodstream.
What is auto, para, endo.
Mental representations or frameworks of the world.
Schema
The ____ contains the bodies photoreceptors, responsible for reacting to light stimuli. This includes the more abundant ____, which are sensitive to light but cannot see color, and the fewer ____ which are less sensitive to light, but are responsible for color vision.
Retina, rods, cones
What is a Cohort study?
Following a subset of a population over a lifetime
Name of the organs of the central nervous system (ANS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS)
ANS: Brain (cerebrum, cerebellum,brainstem etc.) and spine
PNS: Most everything else. The 12 cranial nerves, 31 spinal nerves.
Name 4 of the 7 hormones produced by the anterior pituitary gland.
Possibilities:
Follicle stimulating hormone
Leutinizing hormone
Adrenocorticotropic hormone
Thyroid stimulating hormone
Prolactin
Endorphins
Growth Hormone
Removal of unpleasant stimuli in response to desired behavior.
Negative reinforcement.
The common misconception of negative reinforcement being the addition of unpleasant stimuli in response to undesired behavior is actually Positive Punishment.
Recite the flow of blood through the heart (Vessells, chambers, and valves).
Vena cava- right atrium- tricuspid valves - right ventricle-pulmonary valve-pulmonary artery-lungs-pulmonary veins- left atrium-bicuspid valve-left ventricle-aortic valve-aorta
Term - A negative social label that changes a person's social identity by classifying the labeled person as abnormal/tainted
Stigma
The gray matter contains which part of the neuron?
Soma body. White matter contains the myelinated axons.
These classes of hormones require a carrier in the blood, but do not require cell surface receptors.
Steroid hormones, derived from cholesterol.
What traits constitute the Big 5 Model?
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extroversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
Ascending limb of the loop of Henle
_____ is when there is a conflict in society's expectations for multiple statuses held by the same person, while ______ is when a single status results in conflicting expectations
Role conflict, role strain
_fferent nerves carry signals _____ the CNS, while _fferent nerves carry signals _____ the CNS.
Afferent (sensory) nerves carry signals from receptors towards the CNS, while Efferent (motor) nerves carry signals from the CNS to muscles.
The levels of this hormone peak a week after ovulation, during the luteal phase.
Progesterone
Level 3 of Kohlberg's Theory of Development, containing stages 5 (Social contract) and 6 (Universal ethics) is referred to as:
Level 3: Post-conventional morality
Name the organs that derive from these developmental layers:
Mesoderm:
Ectoderm:
Endoderm:
Endoderm: Form the Internal linings of the: GI tract, lungs, liver, pancreas. Also go on to become organs such as colon, stomach, intestines, lung, liver and pancreas.
Ectoderm: Epidermis, hair, central and peripheral nervous systems.