This nervous system includes all nerves that extend from the spinal cord and carry messages to and from various muscles, glands, and other organs.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
100
A researcher must obtain this in writing from their participants before conducting an experiment.
What is informed consent?
100
This type of scan involves injecting a slightly radioactive solution into the blood and then measuring the amount of radiation absorbed by brain cells.
What is a PET scan?
100
This is how many pounds the average human brain weighs.
What is 3?
100
This is Miss Lane's fiance's name.
What is Julian?
200
This division of the nervous system regulates heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, digestion, hormone secretion, and other functions.
What is autonomic nervous system?
200
Researchers should never cause physical or psychological ______ to their participants.
What is harm?
200
When I touch a sharp object, my hand automatically withdraws because of a prewired _________.
What is a reflex or reflex response?
200
This lobe in the brain contains the motor cortex, and is responsible for many motor movements and cognitive processes.
What is the frontal lobe?
200
Students are expected to write this down at the start of every class period.
What is date and agenda (and daily writing)?
300
This division of the nervous system connects to receptors and muscles that we can move voluntarily, such as muscles in our limbs, back, neck, and chest.
What is the somatic nervous system?
300
This association has published a code of ethics and conduct for psychologists to follow when doing research.
What is the American Psychological Association?
300
These cells can change into and become other cells in the human body.
What are stem cells?
300
This lobe is in the back of the brain and is involved in processing visual information.
What is the occipital lobe?
300
Students created collages on this concept.
What is introspection?
400
This division of the nervous system is responsible for relaxing the body, and is involved in digestion.
What is the parasympathetic division?
400
It is estimated that over this number of animals are used each year in biomedical research.
What is 25 million.
400
This disease includes symptoms of tremors and shakes in the limbs, a slowing of voluntary movements, and problems with balance and coordination.
What is Parkinson's disease?
400
This lobe is involved in hearing, speaking coherently, and understanding verbal and written material.
What is the temporal lobe?
400
This assignment asked students to observe a group in a naturalistic setting.
What is people watching (protocol)?
500
This division of the nervous system would be activated if my body needed to prepare for action.
What is the sympathetic division?
500
This process includes explaining the purpose and method of the experiment, asking the participants their feelings about being a participant.
What is debriefing?
500
This phenomenon occurs when I feel pain in a body part that is no longer there.
What is phantom limb?
500
This lobe contains the somatosensory cortex.
What is the parietal lobe?
500
These are the names of Miss Lane's two little sisters.