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Nervous System
The Brain
The Endocrine System
How Psychologists Study the Brain
Miscellaneous
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The brain and the spinal cord.
What is the Central Nervous System?
100
Which side of the body does the left brain control?
The right side.
100
What does the endocrine system send throughout the body?
Hormones
100
What is the full name for an EEG?
Electroencephalograph
100
A split-brain operation is used to treat what?
Severe or chronic siezures.
200
When neurons form a bond, one neuron's axon terminals communicate with another neuron's ____________.
What is Dendrites?
200
Name the four lobes of the brain.
Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, Occipital
200
Which gland controls metabolism?
The Thyroid
200
During and EEG, wires are placed into the brain. What are these wires called?
Electrodes
200
Kaidel tested how the halves of the brain reacted to what?
Anxiety
300
Neurons pass information across a synapse using these chemicals.
What are Neurotransmitters?
300
This part of the brain includes the cerebellum, the medulla, and the pons.
What is the hindbrain?
300
What is the difference between a hormone and a neurotransmitter?
A neurotransmitters is released beside a neuron to excite or inhibit it. A hormone is released into the blood stream.
300
This study method shows which areas of the brain function during certain tasks and can treat pain.
Stimulation
300
What did scientists learn about the brain because of Phineas Gage?
That the frontal lobe controls mood, behavior, and personality.
400
What does the parasympathetic nervous system do?
Works to conserve energy and to enhance the body’s ability to recover from strenuous activity—brings body back to resting state.
400
This part of the brain engages in higher level thinking?
What is the forebrain?
400
Which chemical acts as both a hormone and a neurotransmitter?
Norepenephine.
400
List three methods psychologists use to study the brain.
Recording, Stimulation, Lesions, Studying the results of accidents, Imaging
400
Name three things that allow for the sending of messages from the brain to the organs and back.
(At the discretion of the questioner.)
500
List the six divisions of the nervous system that we studied.
Central, Peripheral, Autonomic, Somatic, Sympathetic, Parasympathetic
500
What does the Corpus Callosum do?
Communicates between the spheres and lobes of the brain.
500
Controls urine and estrogen production.
What is the pituitary gland?
500
Explain how a PET scan works.
Psychologists inject a dye into the blood and measure how much is absorbed. Active neurons absorb more than non-active neurons, and this shows which part of the brain is active during certain tasks
500
What was Phineas Gage's job?
He worked building railroads.