AP Biology
A brief electrical charge that travels down its axon.
According to the textbook, how many percent of college and university students say they feel tired several times per week?
A. 60%
B. 67%
C. 69%
D. 70%
E. 75%
C. 69%
Awareness of ourselves and our environment.
What is consciousness?
Argued that natural selection shapes behaviors as well as bodies.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Can hypnosis force people to act against their will?
Yes
Pea-sized structure located in the core of the brain, where it is controlled by an adjacent brain area.
What is pituitary gland?
Associated with obesity. Some warning signs are snoring and daytime sleepiness.
What is Cognitive Neuroscience?
A. The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with our mental processes
B. The interdisciplinary study of the brain linked with our mental processes
C. The interdisciplinary study of the mental activity linked with our brain processes
D. The interdisciplinary study of the activity linked with our brain processes
A. The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with our mental processes
The first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D.
Margaret Floy Washburn
What are the two proposed explanations of hypnosis?
Hypnosis as a Social Phenomenon.
Hypnosis as Divided Consciousness.
How does the Central Nervous System and the Peripheral Nervous System work together?
PNS transmits CNS decisions to other body parts.
Which of the following statement is true? Which of the following is false?
A. When people dream of performing some activity, their limbs often move in concert with the dream.
B. Older adults sleep more than young adults.
C. Sleepwalkers are acting out their dreams.
D. Sleep experts recommend treating insomnia with an occasional sleeping pill.
E. Some people dream every night; other seldom dream.
F. Everyone needs around 8 hours of sleep.
True: None
False: A,B,C,D,E,F
What are the main differences between selective attention, inattentional blindness, and change blindness?
selective attention: focus on a particular stimulus.
inattentional blindness: fail to see visible objects when attention is directed elsewhere.
change blindness: fail to notice changes in the environment.
Believed the mind was in the heart, which pumps warmth and vitality to the body.
Who is Aristotle?
Type of hypnosis that helped alleviate headaches, asthma, and stress-related skin disorders.
What is Posthypnotic suggestion?
Amygdala and Hypothalamus
Causes depression, suppress your immune system, lead to weight gain.
What is the cocktail party effect?
Name one of the three psychologists who demonstrated inattentional blindness through a one-minute video in which three black-shirt men tossing a basketball were superimposed over the images of three white-shirted players.
Ulric Neisser, Robert Becklan, and Daniel Cervone.
What are the 3 factors that influences hypnosis? Briefly explain how.
Biological influence: distinctive brain activity, unconscious information processing.
Psychological influence: focused attention, heightened suggestibility
Social-cultural influences: presence of an authoritative person in legitimate context.
What are the 6 neurotransmitters? (Name 5) Choose 3 and explain their functions and what happens if they malfunction.
Acetylcholine (ACh)
Function: enables muscle action and learning
Malfunction: Alzheimer's disease
Dopamine
Function: influences movement, learning, emotion
Malfunction: Schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease
Serotonin
Function: affects mood, hunger, arousal, sleep
Malfunction: depression
Norepinephrine
Function: control alertness and arousal
Malfunction: depress mood
GABA
Function: inhibitory neurotransmitter
Malfunction: seizures, tremors, insomnia
Glutamate
Function: excitatory neurotransmitter, involved in memory
Malfunction: migraines, seizures
What are the 5 dream theories? Choose 3 and explain their critical considerations.
4. Neural activation: Individual's brain is weaving the stories.
5. Cognitive development: Does not address the neuroscience of dreams.
Perception, memory, thinking, language, and attitudes all operate on two levels - a conscious, deliberate "high road" and an unconscious, automatic "low road."
What is dual processing?
Who used the method of unscrambling word in his/her experiment? What did he/she try to prove?
Richard Goranson used the method to prove that overconfidence affect people in the way they solve their problem.
Social Influence: the subject is so caught up in the hypnotized role that she ignores the cold.