Brain
A neuron's reaction of either firing at full strength or not firing at all is described as
What is the all-or-none response?
The ________ is similar to the nervous system in that both produce molecules that act on receptors elsewhere in the body.
What is the endocrine system?
What refers to all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating?
What is cognition?
The point where the optic nerve leaves the eye, where there are no receptor cells, is called the .
Which of the following brain areas enables judgment, planning, social interactions, and processing of new memories?
What is the frontal lobe?
Reabsorption of excess neurotransmitter molecules by the PRE-synaptic neuron
What is reuptake?
The speedy nervous system zips messages by way of neurotransmitters. Endocrine messages, however, are delivered more slowly because hormones travel through
What is the bloodstream?
________ may lead us to ignore other relevant information as we intuitively compare something with a particular prototype.
What is the representative heuristic?
The thin surface of the back of the eye where light-sensitive receptors are house
What is the retina?
The parietal lobes help in processing .
What is sensations?
An electrical signal that travels down the axon of a neuron is called the
What is an action potential?
Which nervous system is responsible for gathering information and transmitting decisions from the CNS to other parts of the body?
Intrinsic motivation is thought to be an important component of
What is creativity?
Santiago is at home playing a video game. He has no problem making out the movement of the ninjas as they battle for control. Converting the physical energy from the game into neural impulses involves a process called
What is transduction?
The temporal lobes help us with...
What is hearing?
The capacity of a brain area to develop new ________ as it adjusts to damage is known as neuroplasticity.
What is neural pathways?
While Javier is sitting in class, he is taking in information from what his professor says and does. This information is then carried from his sensory neurons to the spinal cord and brain, or ________, for processing.
What is the central nervous system?
Advertising by insurance companies encourages people to imagine their homes being destroyed by fire. By doing this, they improve their salespeople's success at selling expensive homeowners' policies. They are most clearly exploiting the influence of
What is the availability heuristic?
Blake is attending a light show and enjoying all the beautiful colors being projected against the wall. Which of the following helps give rise to the color sensations that Blake sees?
What are cones?
Researchers have found that after working on a task and sleeping on it, people tend to solve difficult problems more insightfully compared with those who stayed awake after working on the task. This demonstrates that sleep
What is helps creative thinking?
Sherry has been somewhat depressed lately. Her physician believes that the neurotransmitter that influences alertness and arousal is the root of her depression. Which neurotransmitter may be the culprit?
What is norepinephrine?
One of the videos we watched in class talked about how the effects of ________ from the endocrine system last longer than neural/chemical messages from the nervous system.
What are hormones?
This problem-solving strategy is fast and intuitive but can lead to stereotypes.
What are heuristics?
The iris is not only the color part of the eyes. It also a muscle that controls the size of the .
What is the pupil?
The brain's thin surface layer, which serves as your body's ultimate control and information processing center, is the
What is the corpus callosum?