Endogenous Pacemakers Research

Question 1

Su…….

Answer 1

Suprachiasmatic nucleus, responsible for detecting light behind the eye.

Question 2

Siffre

Answer 2

6 months in a cave, his day increased to 25 hours. He emerged and thought he was a month behind.

Question 3

Campbell and Murphy

Answer 3

Monitored body temperatures and found that shining a beam of light onto participants in their lab study, even on their knees, they were woken.

Question 4

Folkard found in relation to temperature

Answer 4

That children were more likely to remember a story they were told it at 3 in the afternoon than at 9 in the morning

Question 5

Body temperature highest and lowest at what times respectively

Answer 5

6 and 4 pm

Question 6

Siffre shows us

Answer 6

That the body clock is perhaps free running and not reliant on exogenous zeitgebers

Question 7

Phenial gland does what?

Answer 7

Releases melatonin which makes you sleepy

Question 8

Suprachiasmatic nucleus > ____________ > _____________

Answer 8

. Pituitary gland
. Pineal gland

Question 9

Serotonin and …

Answer 9

Melatonin

Question 10

However across the whole topic (but in part