Nervous System
What are the two main communication systems that make up the nervous system?
Central and Peripheral Nervous System
True or false: Explicit memories are episodic memories.
True
Each sleep cycle is about how many minutes in length?
90 min
The central nervous system has two main parts.
Brain and Spinal Cord
This controls memories tied to emotion.
amygdala
Amino acids, peptides, or steroids are examples of what?
hormones
Name the four lobes of the brain.
Frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal.
True or false: Lateralization of function involves only one hemisphere of the brain.
False: It involves both left and right.
Afferent nerves carry information to the _____.
Which part of the brain is involved with converting short term memory to long term memory?
hippocampus
Epinephrine and norepinephrine are released from the adrenal medulla in the PNS: True or False?
True
These three parts make up the Brain Stem
midbrain, pons, and medulla
Delta waves occur primarily in this sleep stage.
Stage 4
Name the two main components of the peripheral nervous system.
somatic and autonomic
This part of the brain is involved in remembering to do certain tasks in sequential order.
Prefrontal cortex
Microtubules help package neurotransmitters. True or False?
True
This is the outermost grey matter of the brain
cerebral cortex
Most research on the neural mechanisms of sexual behavior has focused on which part of the brain?
hypothalamus
parasympathetic system
What is post-traumatic amnesia
Amnesia that is produced by a blow to the head that does not penetrate the skull
This neurotransmitter is known to be deactivated in the synaptic cleft by enzymatic action
acetylcholine
This is the central hub of the brain, relaying sensory information to the rest of the brain.
Thalamus
According to this sleep theory, "sleep does the job of explaining why there are such large differences in the amount of time that species spend sleeping".
Adaptation theory