The Brain
Heredity vs. Environment
Nervous system
Sleep
Sensation
100
One of the four lobes that is associated with vision
What is the occipital lobe?
100
Refers to genetic traits inherited from biological parents.
What is heredity?
100
What is the central nervous system?
100
Insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, REM behavior disorder, sleepwalking
What are sleep disorders?
100
The perceptual quality of sound determined by the frequency or wavelength of air molecule vibrations.
What is pitch?
200
Part of the brain that is associated with emotion control
What is the amygdala?
200
Refers to all external factors that influence development, such as family, culture, and education.
What is environment?
200
This handles the automatic stuff like heartbeat and digestion
What is the autonomic nervous system?
200
A sleep disorder characterized by repeated interruptions in breathing during sleep.
What is slee apnea?
200
Individuals with a higher number of taste receptors on their tongue, making them more sensitive to tastes.
What are suertasters?
300
The lobe that deals with planning, reasoning, and decision making
What is the frontal lobe?
300
A research method that compares similarities and differences between identical and fraternal twins to determine the effects of genes on behavior and mental processes.
What is twin studies?
300
The central organ of the central nervous system that processes information and controls body functions.
What is the brain?
300
A biological cycle that repeats approximately every 24 hours, regulating sleep-wake patterns and other physiological processes.
What is circadian rythym?
300
What is the pupil?
400
The major sensory processing hub for your brain.
What is the parietal lobe?
400
The process by which traits that increase survival and reproductive success become more common in a population over time.
What is natural selection?
400
The bundle of nerves extending from the brain through the vertebral column that is part of the central nervous system.
What is the spinal cord?
400
REM sleep stands for
What is Rapid Eye Movement?
400
The sense of taste, which detects chemical compounds through taste receptors on the tongue.
What is gustation?
500
What is "There's something wrong with his Medulla Oblongata?"
500
A discriminatory application of evolutionary principles that seeks to improve human populations through selective breeding or genetic manipulation.
What is eugenics?
500
The division of the autonomic nervous system responsible for the 'fight or flight' response that contributes to feelings of anxiety.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
500
The number of sleep stages that we experience at night
What is 4?
500
Photoreceptor cells located in the fovea of the eye that process color and detail, including blue, green, and red cones that detect different wavelengths.
What are cones?