This neurotransmitter is responsible for sleep, appetite, and mood.
What is serotonin?
100
This part of the brain is responsible for heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, and relaxation.
What is the brain stem (pons and medulla)?
100
The two parts of the nervous system.
What are the central and peripheral nervous system.
100
Great amplitude corresponds with these types of colors (A) and sounds (B).
What are bright colors and loud sounds?
100
This involves attending to, organizing, and interpreting stimuli that we sense.
What is perception?
200
This neurotransmitter excites the nervous system, memory, and autonomic nervous system reactions.
What is glutamate?
200
Sue was pulled over in a routine DUI stop. The cop asked her to walk a straight line and monitored her closely for balance and coordination. The cop was assessing whether this part of the brain had been affected by alcohol.
What is the cerebellum?
200
This part of the nervous system regulates activity of the organs, glands, and other physiological processes (A) and makes up one half of this part of the nervous system (B).
What is the autonomic nervous system and the peripheral nervous system?
200
This theory explains our experience of pain as an interaction between nerves that transmit pain messages and those that inhibit these messages.
Bonus (100 points): Name the activity of the nerve pathways that respond to uncomfortable stimulation.
What is gate-control theory?
Bonus: What is nociception?
200
The minimum amount of energy or quantity of a stimulus required for it to be reliably detected at least 50% of the time.
What is the absolute threshold?
300
Sally has just witnessed a crime. Her attention is heightened to important stimuli and she is committing as many details to memory as possible. There is an increase in this neurotransmitter.
What is norepinephrine?
300
This part of the brain is the go between for sensory and motor information for voluntary movements.
What is the midbrain?
300
This part of the peripheral nervous system transmits sensory information and controls movement of the skeletal muscles.
What is the somatic nervous system?
300
The difference in relative position of an object as seen by both eyes. This difference provides cues to the brain about depth.
What is retinal disparity?
300
Using signal detection theory, Ella demonstrates this type of sensory judgment outcome when she thought she heard reveille and jumped out of bed at midnight.
What is a false alarm?
400
John is participating in a hockey game. He is moving a lot and his attention is heightened as he watches for cues to score goals. He is really hoping to be recognized by the talent scout. This neurotransmitter is activated.
What is dopamine (reward-seeking)?
400
This part of the brain is responsible for directing visual and auditory sensory information to the right part of the brain.
What is the thalamus?
400
Following a beat session in Basic training, Bill is slowly starting to calm down after getting yelled at for not knowing his buddy's hometown. This part of the nervous system is activated to return Bill's body functions to normal.
Bonus 50 points: This part of the brain is responsible for regulating these changes.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Bonus: What is the brain stem? Medulla and Pons...
400
This system functions in the sensation and perception of taste (A) and works hand-in-hand with this system to give use the experience of flavor (B).
Bonus (50 points): Name the 5 primary tastes.
What is (A) gustatory system and (B) olfactory system?
Bonus: salty, sweet, bitter, sour, and umami.
400
This psychological approach states that individual parts of an image might have little meaning on their own, but take on a significant, perceived form when put together as a whole.
What is Gestalt psychology?
500
Brian's ability to process new information seems to be slowing down. He seems to be less alert and very sleepy. This neurotransmitter is likely engaged.
What is GABA (gamma-amino butyric acid)?
500
Barney is in the woods and hears something large coming through the bushes. He instantly feels fear as a result of this part of the brain (A) and runs for his life using this part of the brain (B).
What are the (A) Amygdala and (B) Hypothalamus?
500
The pathway of neurotransmission through one neuron.
What is the dendrites receive impulses from other neurons/neurotransmitters, the impulse is sent from the soma through the synapse into the axon. The axon is wrapped in a myelin sheath which speeds the signal (+50 points). The axon transports the message to the next neuron?
500
The pathway of sound to your brain.
Bonus (50 points): Which type of hearing damage is easiest to correct using cochlear implants?
What is eardrum, bones/ossicles, cochlea, hair, nerve (auditory), Thalamus.
Bonus: Sensorineural damage
500
This type of processing occurs when prior knowledge and expectations guide what is perceived.