Primitive Brain
The Nervous and Endocrine Systems
The Modern Brain
Neurotransmitters and Neurons
Genetics
100

This brain structure connects the emotions of fear or aggression to our memories.

What is the amygdala?

100

If you are sweating and breathing quickly in response to the environment, this nervous system is likely active.

What is the sympathetic nervous system?

100

The cortex has this many lobes.

What is eight (8)?

100

These are the "listening" parts of the neuron.

What are the dendrites?

100

If a particular behavior helped our ancestors survive in their environment, we call it:

What is an "adaptive" behavior?

200

This part of the brain stem helps coordinates our movements and our facial nerves.

What is the pons?

200

This hormone will help to activate your "fight or flight" response.

What is adrenalin?

200

These lobes, located on the top of the head, have association areas for math and spatial thinking.

What are the parietal lobes?

200

This inhibitory neurotransmitter's job is to calm the brain.

What is GABA (Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid)? 

200

These two evolutionary factors determine if an organism's genes go on to the next generation.

What are survival and reproduction?

300

If you feel thirsty, this part of the brain is doing its job.

What is the hypothalamus?

300

This is the other name for motor neurons.

What are efferent neurons?

300
This part of the cortex processes sensory input from our skin and muscles.

What is the sensory cortex?

300

This type of medicine inhibits the action of a neurotransmitter.

What is an antagonist?

300

This type of psychologist will be concerned about all the things that make humans alike.

What is an evolutionary psychologist?

400

Did you remember that this part of your brain helps make long-term memories?

What is the Hippocampus?

400

This is the part of the nervous system that has all of your motor and sensory neurons.

What is the somatic nervous system?

400

Someone with this type of aphasia will have difficulty forming spoken words.

What is Broca's aphasia?

400

This is the other name for the neural impulse.

What is the action potential?

400

Identical twins are often studies by these type of psychologists.

Who are behavior geneticists?

500

If you damage this part of your brain stem, your heart may stop beating.

What is the medulla?

500

This is the "master gland"; it is located in your brain.

What is the pituitary gland.

500

Severing this part of the brain will prevent the right and left hemispheres from communicating with each other.

What is the corpus collosum?

500

Not having enough of this neurotransmitter is associated with Parkinson's disease.

What is dopamine?

500

If 97% of the differences in "extroversion" seen in a population are due to genetic factors, we would say that extroversion is a highly ___  trait. 

What is "heritable"?