Chapter 3

Question 0

How does Glial support the nervous system?

Answer 0

1) Provides energy
2) Facilitates communication among neurons
3) Maintains chemical enviroment

Question 1

What are the two separate nervous systems?

Answer 1

Central Nervous System & Peripheral Nervous System

Question 2

What does the Nervous System use to send and receive information?

Answer 2

Neurons

Question 3

What is the Thalamus?

Answer 3

The Relay Station of the Forebrain.

Question 4

What does the Hypothalamus do?

Answer 4

Regulates ANS (fight or flight response)
HPA Axis which controls the 4 F's and your biological clock

Question 5

What are the 4 F’s?

Answer 5

Fighting, Feeding, Fleeing, Fucking

Question 6

What does the Hippocampus effect?

Answer 6

Memory.

Question 7

What does the Corpus Callosum do?

Answer 7

Connects the left and right hemispheres.

Question 8

The Amygdala effects….?

Answer 8

Recognition of emotion or production of emotion.

Question 9

List the four things effected by the Sensory Cortex.

Answer 9

Touch, Temperature, Pain, and Pressure.

Question 10

What is Hemineglect?

Answer 10

Occurs when damage happens to the right Parietal Lobe. Patients effected by this tend to ignore the left side of the world.

Question 11

List two Cortex(s) associated with the Occipital Lobe.

Answer 11

The Visual and Association Cortex.

Question 12

What does the Frontal Lobe control?

Answer 12

Motor Cortex,

Planning, emotional and impulse control, personality

Question 13

The left Hemisphere processes language from the ____ side of our world.

Answer 13

Right. (Vice Versa as well)

Question 14

What does the Left Hemisphere control?

Answer 14

Logic and Language (not just speech).

Question 15

What does the Right Hemisphere control?

Answer 15

Facial Recognition, Spacial, Artistic, Music, Emotion.

Question 16

According to Split Brain Studies the image in the right visual field…

Answer 16

People can name the object, and it goes to the left side of the brain.

Question 17

According to Split Brain Studies the image in the left visual field…

Answer 17

The person can pick out the object with their left hand, it goes to the right side of the brain.

Question 18

List the Function and Disorder associated of: Acetylcholine

Answer 18

Memory, and Alzheimer’s Disease

Question 19

List the Function and Disorder associated of: Norepinephrine

Answer 19

Arousal and Vigilance, Depression

Question 20

List the Function and Disorder associated of: Serotonin

Answer 20

Mood, Depression

Question 21

List the Function and Disorder associated of: Dopamine

Answer 21

Movement and Reward, Parkinson’s Disease and Schizophrenia

Question 22

List the Function and Disorder associated of: GABA

Answer 22

Calming (Inhibitory), and Epilepsy

Question 23

What do endorphins effect?

Answer 23

Pain Tolerance.

Question 24

What is an EEG?

Answer 24

Examines changes of Brain Waves over time using Electrodes.

Question 25

What is a PET?

Answer 25

Injects a radioactive substance into a person, and active areas of the brain takes up more of the substance.

Question 26

What is an MRI?

Answer 26

Uses radio waves to create a high resolution image of the brain.

Question 27

Difference between MRI and fMRI?

Answer 27

fMRI also shows changes in blood flow over time.

Question 28

Monocular Cues

Answer 28

Relative Size
Height in Plane
Interposition
Linear Perspective
Textual Gradient

Question 29

Binocular Cues

Answer 29

Convergence

Retinal Disparity

Question 30

Influence of Culture

Answer 30

Cultural Upbringing can influence what you see in a picture first.

Question 31

What happens during Perceptual Constancy?

Answer 31

Objects Maintain their size shape and color despite changes in their retinal image.

Question 32

What is effected by the Central Nervous System?

Answer 32

Brain and Spinal Cord